FYI to any other Linux users, the README says to install libglew2.1 but the game works with 2.2.0. So rather than installing the older 2.1 version, you can create a symlink to your 2.2.0 version. Here’s the command i used:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.2.2.0 /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.2.1