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Late to the party, but as others have said, ClamAV is usually the go-to for Linux antivirus. It's got its limits -- a lot of its use case is for blocking viruses for windows from passing through Linux servers, especially email servers -- but it's pretty reasonable.
rkhunter can be useful in a forensic context or for particularly suspicious situations, but it's not really meant as a day-to-day antivirus. Uploading to VirusTotal for scanning can rarely be useful, though probably not relevant for yarhar'd video games if only due to file size concerns.
Mint does not natively come with a virus scanner, though it should have ClamAV in the app library and from apt-get. I've got mixed feelings about that: a lot of people do run without any and are fine, but the sort of person that needs it most is going to be least likely to install it.
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