How to play on Steam Deck/Linux?

[Krownar]

I want to play this game on my budget PC with SteamOS, what do i need?

Explain it to me like im 5 years old. Thanks!

[Vepar]

• Download the unofficial patch from here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch
  
• Make sure you have wine installed on your system, but since it's SteamOS it should be installed already. I don't know how SteamOS handles package management. On any other arch based system you'd install wine with sudo pacman -S wine, but i don't know if SteamOS has pacman.
  
• Run the patch as normal using wine (should just work) by double clicking on the patch executable wherever you downloaded it.
  
• When it asks for the game directory, click browse, and your filesystem is labeled "Z:". If it's not, doesn't matter just navigate to the game location, usually "/home/username/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines" either from the "Z" drive or from / (root), whichever lets you do that.
  
• Install the patch, your perfered verison (basic, plus)
  
• Under general tab, in the "launch options" field, write "-game Unofficial_Patch" (without the quotes)
  
• Right click on the game in Steam library, under compatibility click "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool", and chooose Proton Experimental
  
• Additionally, you can run the game from Loader.exe located in the game directory. You can add it as a shortcut to Steam, run it directly by double clicking on the file when in desktop mode or make a shortcut elsewhere like on your desktop and run it from there. The game should start normally by clicking "Play" in Steam though.

[🍉Sesmu]

Figured I'd ask here, any idea if the RTX Remix mod works in Linux yet? I plan to test this weekend but curious if anyone had any trouble.

[Vepar]

I haven't tried it, it barely works on windows, i wouldn't bother with it right now, i'd give it more time to mature. But if you managed to get it working, post here how it works.