Game:

Steam: Rails to Riches (2015)

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Tutorial

Duration: 5:28

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This is a quick video on how to play windows games on linux with no steam. That is, without using proton or steam's tools for gameplay.


There are a lot of windows games, particularly older ones, that are not part of steam, are never going to be part of steam, and will have very little support from the developer for running them on steam.

This video is using tools that are available as flatpaks, on rpm, and in the ubuntu repos. The process should be fairly similar for any fedora spin or ubuntu flavor. For this tutorial you will need 3 things:

1. fully updated Wine
2. Winetricks (as updated as you can get it)
3. Play on Linux, which is a graphical frontend for wine

I am using an old Dell Optiplex 790 with 3 significant upgrades, specifically a Firepro 2 video card (for screen recording), a GeForce gtx 7XX (from 2015), and a non-stock power supply to power those cards. I am using Stock Fedora 38 as my Operating system.

The game I am doing this with, Chex Quest, is from an era that is still pretty easy to get to work with wine. The worst era for linux gaming is probably the windows 98/XP era because there's just so much DRM.


I have been using linux exclusively since 2012, and no longer use windows for any of my personal computing or gaming.

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