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"Voices Of The Void" Pre-Alpha

Gather unknown signals from deep, silent space · By mrdrnose

[Tutorial] How to play VotV on Linux

A topic by Xavier Belanche created Mar 30, 2024 Views: 3,713 Replies: 11
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After searching a little for a tutorial of how to play this amazing game on GNU/Linux with no success at all, I decided to share a simple step-by-step of how to achieve it (and playing soooo smooth!):

  1. Download the game and unzip it to a folder. For example: /home/<you>/Games/VotV/
  2. Open Steam and click on "Add a game" option (at the bottom-left of the main windows of Steam)
  3. Click on "Browse" to open the folder where is located the VotV.exe (following the example: /home/<you>/Games/VotV/pa07_0011/WindowsNoEditor/)
  4. Once is selected you'll find it under the "INSTALLED LOCALY" section of your games library as a "VotV.exe"
  5. Select it and click the gears icon and select "Properties".
  6. It open a new window where you have to set two paths as you can see it below:
  7. Don't forget to open the "Compatibility" section to force of using Proton:
  8. The first time it'll raise an error of lacking of MVC++ Runtime. Say "Yes"
  9. Waiti unitl  the installation is completed
  10. Enjoy!

Adding to this conversation. When you're extracting the files into your chosen directory, Make sure you have "Keep Directory Structure" selected In the extract.

Otherwise the prompt to Install "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime" Won't give you an option to install and you'll be stuck like me thinking you did something wrong.
Great guide BTW, Works on Ubuntu. 

Great guide! Thank you!
Works like a charm on Debian.

Did you have any luck finding or creating an "assets" folder with this method?

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Update!
I figured it out how to find the assets folder with the help of this friendly neighborhood reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/wzf20a/where_is_the_localappdata_fol..

My assets folder was here: /home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/[id]/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/VotV/Assets/
I was able to drop some music into the radio folder, and I can verify that it works in game on debian!

Awesome! That brings more facilities for linuxers to play this amazing game!

Also figured out how to share game sound in a discord call: https://endless.ersoft.org/pulseaudio-loopback/

I know it's kind of a necro thread, but what do I do if it doesn't give me the option to install C + + at all, or it doesn't launch? When I click play following your exact instructions, it says "running" and then just crashes. Running Manjaro with the same proton, wine, and game versions you're using. 

You are probably using a sandboxed version of Steam, from flatpak or something similar. Try installing Steam through pacman or similar, it got me around the problem.

Thank you SO MUCH. It worked! Just so everyone knows, use your distro's guide to install steam (be sure to uninstall your current version) and then follow the above steps. It should work.

Just posting it here so its documented somewhere, add `WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER=1` to your launch options if you want the TV/monitor to display your mp4 files, otherwise they will always come up as blank

Just only to update/confirm that new version 0.8.0 works flawlessly on Linux ;-)

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just a note if people dont have steam there's also lutris which is pretty good lets you use wine or steams proton or even GE proton