Please avoid discussing piracy in this community. It is too much of a legal issue and isn't Linux related.
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You can add a non-steam game if it is "installed" (read extracted), then in steam select to use compatibility mode in settings for the game. That will run it with proton and has a very high sucess rate. So far think i came across 2 that did not work. One of the civ games and another. Ironically both i actually bought rather than pirate, but if you install a game via wine, you can add it via steam. Actually i do this with a bunch of legally bought games as its an easy way to manage a library.
Yes. You may need to install it in a VM first (or a Windows dual boot partition) then move the files into the linux host system. Fitgirl installers usually report not enough memory for me, even though there’s 32GB available and the installer option to limit to 2GB is turned on.
edit: once it’s on there, I usually have success with Heroic, just when adding the game to the library, you have to use the “install first” option in the game settings window to install any needed visual c++ runtime, before pointing it to the game exe and saving. I haven’t found a way to add it afterward.
Fitgirl installers gave me huge trouble too in the past, but once the files are extracted, it all works perfectly.
Yeah, at this point I just install them from the Windows side, then add them to the linux side, so if there’s some problem I can switch back and forth.
I downloaded RE2 from Fitgirl 3 days ago. Installer worked without problems on up to date Arch
That’s good to hear, what did you install that through?
Vanilla Wine from Arch repos
cool! thanks for the heads up!
Wine via Lutris or bottles.
Install bottles from flatpak.
Press "run executable" and run the installer, installing in a folder like ~/games for easy finding
If you're lucky the game now appears in bottles and you can run it, otherwise add a shortcut (button in bottles) pointing to the game's exe.
If you need controller support, from bottles click "more" on the game and add it to steam (restart steam for it to show up) and launch the game from steam and it will take care of the controller mapping and you even get the nice remapping features.