What’s the best way to play pirated windows games on Linux?

Ever since I’ve migrated I stuck to emulation for game piracy cause it was pretty simple. Ive been trying to run some repacked games but I can’t get them to install properly.

I don’t see many people talk about this probably because most game pirates use windows if I had to guess.

  • ASDraptor
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    20 hours ago

    I do it all the time. Just add it to steam as a non steam app and select the proton version you want to use. It will run just fine.

    EDIT: If you need to install first, just add the installer as a non steam program, run it, install normally and then chang the path of the exe and the working folder to those of the installed game

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      13 hours ago

      How does steam deals with installing on a different HD than system’s one? That’s the only issue I have had with WINE and I had to unpack in Windows.

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        12 hours ago

        It’s pretty straightforward. You just select the unit as you do in windows (as long as it is mounted).

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        20 hours ago

        Lutris + wineprefixes works great but most of the time it’s harder to configure and needs some search around the web to get it right !

        Non-steam games with proton on steam works like nearly every time without to much hassle (if supported) !!

        If you’re afraid of your account ban, create a dummy steam account only for your pirates games.