Xirup

I like Notesnook, although it's a bit expensive.

After reading your comment, I downloaded JPP7 and I had the same problem you had but I managed to fix it, although at the beginning the game didn't open even though everything seemed to be fine.

You can skip the steps you see unnecessary, but I will explain from 0 to make it easier to understand, and I want to clarify, $USER means "Your username", so if in your Steam Deck your user name is Kinein, $USER should be "kinein":

First open Bottles and create a Bottle type "Gaming" and let it be created.

Now, open Dolphin (KDE Neon's default file manager, the Steam Deck's DE) and make the hidden files show up.

Now, go to Downloads/ (Or wherever you have the game files) and go and copy the entire unzipped game directory.

Now, go to this exact path /home/$USER/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/bottles.

Here are the prefixes of Bottles, if when you created the Bottle in step 1 you named it "Jack-Box", you must access the directory with the same name.

Once inside the directory, go to /drive_c/Program Files and create a directory called "Games" (or whatever you want) and now paste the game files. Finally, copy or write down the complete path where the "Games" directory is.

Now, open Bottles and go into the Bottle you just created and click on "Run executable". At this point if you copied the path, simply paste it in the navigation bar or write it down or if you remember the path you can go directory by directory, because you need to get to where the game executable is.

Once in the "Games" directory, enter and open the directory where the JPP7 files are. You must click on the "X" that appears in the Dolphin filter at the bottom, otherwise you will only be shown directories.

Now, you can see all the files of the game, look for the executable called "The Jackbox Party Pack 7.exe" and click on "Run" and enjoy!

If you have any problem or I didn't explain well, don't hesitate to ask.

Personally I don't use Lutris nor do I use Steam, but I use Bottles to play my pirated games and I have already experienced with several games that when running a pirated game it redirects me to a screen to buy the game, and I am almost sure that is because you are specifically using Proton.

To run Windows games on Linux, the Steam Deck uses Proton which is so to speak its own "gaming version of Wine" to run games, and Wine is a layer that translates instructions from Windows programs into instructions that Linux can understand. In Lutris I have no idea how to add prefixes (Wine versions), but I usually work around it by using a different prefix to Proton, or sometimes it fixes it by using Proton, it's very variable.

I recommend you to install Bottles via Flathub in Discover and create a "Bottle" (i.e. a prefix) of category "Gaming" and try to run the JBPP executable from the "Run executable" button, if that does not work or as such there is no output press Settings and check if DXVK and VKD3D are correctly configured, as they usually do not have any configuration although it is enough to select the first option.

If that doesn't work either try to change the runner to Soda or Caffeine, as they are the ones that in my case usually work the most, although they should already be installed by default, if they are not simply go to the home screen and press the 3 dots on the top right and go to runners and there you can download them.

It is also important to mention that Bottles does not have access to expansion cards or external HDD so in case the game is installed outside your OS you will need to install Flatseal and give it read/write permission (read only is enough but just in case I usually give it write permission too). Usually it is a very simple process, at the moment I don't have Flatseal installed but it is not hard.

Actually I suppose that if Lutris didn't work it was because it didn't have any prefix configured (which has happened to me with Lutris) or because you actually installed Lutris as flatpak and it didn't have access to the directory where the game is.

I completely agree, it was funny to see that when an enemy attacked me the others stayed behind watching, I mean, dodging an attack is easy but if they all attacked me together they would massacre me.

Does the video have anything to do with the way of playing MMORPGs (I mean, you need to play with unknown people to advance in the game)? I can't see it right now, but I've played enough FFXIV to notice that people who have anonymity behave very differently.

But what about when people give a bad opinion about something just because others do it? That's where my frustration comes from, when people praise or criticize something just because others in the community do it, but unfoundedly.

Ops, it's $2000 although I could lengthen it a bit if necessary.

As far as I know in Steam for desktop you can add executables to run pirated games, that option is also present in the Steam for the Steam Deck?

And yes, it was EmuDeck.

Hmmm, I hadn't thought about it but RetroArch is indeed a good idea, although some cores (like PCSX2) are old and run a little bit bad even on my PC, but I can still try it again. Thanks for the idea.

I tried to do that with Proton Tricks and other tools but as I remember it always threw the same initial error.

I think it was some installation problem, because I did a clean install of my distro and it works again perfectly,

Same, and I can't even see the prices without signing up.

I honestly think that the best (and also using a FOSS alternative) is to use Librera, available in F-Droid.