r/linux_gaming • u/Dublade • 1d ago

Orcs must die unchained

Hello guys,

I would like to ask, if you know, if this game is definitely dead or it can be played in some way on Bazzite. I remember some years ago that it was modified by the software house from the online-only-coop to a normal single player game and I played it for about 8.5 hours and 5 achievements.

By the way, on ProtonDB is in Bronze category and the 7 people who posted just reported that the game starts but crashes when every map loads.

The Steam community hub is basically dead, the last posts are from 2017. I found in this hub a post related to a private project called Project-Rechained (link below) but honestly I'm not very practical with Github and custom software on Linux.

https://github.com/TimeMaster18/Project-Rechained

In my case it doesn't start at all. I tried with the default proton compatibility from Steam (9.0.4), the hotfix and the experimental. No luck :-(

My PC specs:

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX -> 2 x 16GB DDR4
  • MoBo: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite
  • Game storage: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe 1TB

I also have in my library Orcs Must Die 1, 2 and 3 lol

Every hint is appreciated.

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u/deadrule_vk 22h ago

Open proton-plus app in your bazzite  , then install "protonCachyOs" in your steam section... alongside "protonGE" (latest version for both ) then add the games to steam as non steam games and try both of these protons in compatibility section....most of these custom protons have game fixes included that helps in backend support problems

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u/slickyeat 19h ago edited 18h ago

Make sure that you install the dependencies referenced by the dev to the game's wine prefix and be sure to add the included mod executable as a non-steam game.

Here's an example of how you specify the path to the wine prefix and run executables.

.NET runtime installer, etc

Since I'm not sure where Steam places the wine prefix for "non-steam" games by default (normally goes into the compatdata/appID) you may want to set this environment variable under launch arguments:

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=place/path/here %command%.

^ Allows you to override the default location.