I want to give this genre a try, but I also want to use mods. Also, Im on Linux so if there are any extra steps I need to do if I install through lutris/steam (as non-steam game) then I would really appreciate your input. The only reason I am currently considering steam as a non-steam game for the install method is just so I dont fragment my games library too much across multiple platforms/apps. If there is any reason not to install it in steam please also let me know.

Much appreciated!!!

[SOLUTION]

Turns out the torrent I found was just a .rar file of the game with the crack file already there. All I had to do was unpack it, then add it through Lutris as a locally installed .exe. I did have to change the runner to proton-ge as the default wine would not start the game. I also had to go into the prefix it created and apply this fix (steamcommunity link) to get it to stop displaying an annoying pop-up message every 30 minutes or so (yet to test it out, but it should work. Will edit again if it doesnt remove the pop-up message).

Also, strangely enough at least for my experience with pirating games, the in-game mod "store" worked perfectly, and I didn't need to manually move files to a mods folder, though I'm sure that would also work just as well.

EDIT 2: The workaround to edit the playtime in the game files worked and I no longer get the pop-up message.

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[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

1.Bottles have some exclusive easy to use features like full backup of entire wine/proton prefix and then later u can restore on any machine with bottles without any reconfigurations also bottles have custom where u can manually choose what dependencies to install and not mess up prefix

2.Most of time I am using portproton it's installing most of depencies which games need but for example I had where program was need Microsoft .net implentstion ,wine mono was an not option because it wsd not working with this program and there was not normal way to uninstall wine mono and install MS .net ,so I switched for bottles for this program created custom prefix and installed everything what I needed.

About lutris not used too much honestly I tired it maybe 4-5 years and it's never worked for me ,most scrips which working for licensed software not worked for pirated installer from my experience so I prefer control everything manually. :)