Not starting on Ubuntu 22.04LTS

[Pumuckel]

Hi the Game dosn't start on My Mashine with the folloing Error masage if i start it from the terminal.

./visplayer: /home/USER/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Watch Over Christmas/libs64/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16)

It looks like the player crashed! If you need support, please include the
contents of the log file in your problem report.
Unfortunately, no log file has been created!

If You have Time, please make it run
Greetings
and
Thanks in advance

[Pumuckel]

I found a little solution for this in the Internet.

cd /your_software/../lib/ (the directory containing libz.so.1)
mv libz.so.1 libz.so.1.old
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1

^^ that does the trick in my case

[Dionous]

Hello Pumuckel,

Many thanks for reporting, we are looking into it, thanks also for the tip!

Enjoy the game!