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As the title says, if someone theoretically wanted to play a cracked game on Linux (not me), could they use the official Steam launcher, or would they have to use Lutris?

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[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

You can add any program as a non-steam game to Steam. It simply adds it as a shortcut, but you can add art and icons.

It was a joke a long time ago to rename a random exe like Notepad as "Half Life 3 Beta", add it to Steam, and troll your friends by leaving it running all day.

[-] wiccan2@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Not only adds it as a shortcut, but also allows you to use steam input to remap controls, very useful on the deck.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I'm stealing that for the next time I'm playing a non-steam game. It's just old enough nobody will know.

[-] Mkengine@feddit.de 2 points 3 months ago

What is the most convenient way to add art? Is there a tool, something more automatic than downloading jpgs from some website yourself?

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

You just right click the game entry in various contexts to add an icon, banner art, etc. There are like 4 different sizes and contexts.

[-] BlessedDog@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago
[-] Mkengine@feddit.de 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It's important to mention that you need to set the shortcut to run as Proton Experimental.

Yup, I prefer lutris though

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Like another comment already said, yes you can. Why would you do that though? Steam sucks so much and running games with lutris works about 5 times better

[-] kurumin@linux.community 0 points 3 months ago

Test (seems to have a federation problem here)

this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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