I tried a lot of things. In the end, it worked - not sure what made the difference.
Here are the two things, I suspect to have done the trick:
As others said, I worked my way through all different versions of Proton. Didn't work for me, at first.
Then I remembered, that some games require to be online when launched the first time (active internet + Steam client in online mode). So, I went online, launched the game (this time with latest standard Proton) ... and it worked! Afterwards, works offline now.
Game will always run windowed, in a maximized window - but not borderless.
Game has no "Quit" function. Must be exited via Steam button or by klicking the "X"-symbol in right upper corner of the window frame.
Changed Proton ver. temporarily
Same as below, but didn't need any launch options
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
Launched game. Got a black screen.
Quit and changed Proton version to 4.11-13.
Launched the game. Black screen again.
Quit and reverted to Proton 7.0-6.
No issues after that.
I needed to Proton 4.11-13 to run it on 7.0-5
In fullscreen using the mouse to move the character through the map flicking taskbar, but if you move the character through the arrow keys you will solve.
Opening directly on Proton 7.0-5 will be with black screen without audio, to make this game run, you need to launch it by Proton 4.11-13 with option launch "PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command%" (game continues on black screen ), close it and now run it with Proton 7.0-5 without the option launch, it it will work at 60fps without problems
to run it at fullscreen add to custom option
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="libglesv2.dll=d" %command% --single-process after that seems to run as normal
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
- Delete your existing prefix (if you have one) from [...]/steamapps/compatdata/635850
- Set launch options to PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
- Set proton version to 4.11.
- Run it once - you will get a black screen, then close the window.
- Change proton version to 6.3-5.
- Run it again and it works.
(Thanks, jason!)
Opens in windowed mode. There is no fullscreen mode. Maximizing the window when the main menu is showing causes it to hang and you have to Alt+TAB out and STOP it.
Once you get into the game, you can maximize the window and continue playing (it seems to work), but the window bar buttons (unmaximize, X, etc.) no longer respond and if you go back to the main menu, it hangs like stated above.
Thanks to a helpful soul on the Steam Play forum (yay jason!), this game is playable on Linux if you don't mind doing a little tinkering.
Opens a black window and plays music. Cannot proceed from there.
After hitting the Play button, this game opens a windowed black window with music playing. Nothing else happens. Gave it a while, then X'd out. It's too bad because this is a good game.
Game doesn't even start or shows a loading screen.
game don't open any window and crash
Launching the game opens an empty black window. Closing the window leaves some zombie processes. With all Proton tweaks enabled, Steam's stdout shows "[1215/214759.400:ERROR:main_dll_loader_win.cc(148)] Failed to load NW DLL (...)" on launch, and the game crashes without leaving zombies.