And Unreal Engine 5 needs the Agility SDK, creating problems where games wouldn't run if your Windows version wasn't new enough. (Same as the typically encountered glibc problem of the user having an older version than the build needs, really.) (I think most of those particular issues were "solved" now with Win10 being EOL and so the developers just rub their hands of it and say "upgrade". Or use Linux and Steam, where no thanks to MS or the gamedevs themselves, games old and new can just work.)

Dependency hell comes for everyone, win32 may be stable but the broader ecosystem for Windows is little better than anything else. I say little because at least MS does still commit to a lot of backwards compatibility and ensuring some very old DLLs are still part of new Windows 11 installs.

As another comment notes some older Humble Bundle linux builds just don't work anymore on modern systems; some of those are just because they assumed a particular libjpg or libxml or whatever would be part of the base distro install and be around indefinitely. Bad assumption. But fixable the same way as missing DLLs from Windows builds.