How to install The Walking Dead: Season Two from Steam on Ubuntu, Zorin OS and Linux Mint and other distros

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In this article I will to explain without complications and step by step the way to install the program The Walking Dead: Season Two from Steam on a computer with Linux, especially Fedora, although it is also applicable to other distros such as Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, OpenSUSE or Manjaro (some of the most popular).

Some very popular Linux distros:


Ubuntu

Debian

Fedora

Linux Mint

Arch Linux

OpenSUSE

Manjaro

Steam is a gaming platform, its games can only be played by installing the official Steam client. Thus first of all you need to have it installed If you dont have it installed yet In this article I explain how to install Steam on Fedora.
Although it is also applicable to CentOS and to virtually all distributions in the Fedora family, such as Mageia.

Before starting, what is Proton Proton is a fork of the famous program Wine, software dedicated to making Windows programs compatible with Linux.
Valve, Steams parent company, has made use of Wine to create its own version combining it with its own tools and thus giving birth to Proton. Which we will see in the Steam app under the name Steam Play. Thanks to Steam Play thousands of games that are Windows-only become available for Linux both on Fedora and CentOS, Mageia, Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Arch, Manjaro, etc. And one of those games you can now play on Linux is The Walking Dead: Season Two.


That clarified…simply add: Welcome to FedGamer.net! the site dedicated to gaming on Fedora. Lets start the article!

How to install The Walking Dead: Season Two from Steam on Linux

Step 1: Open Steam on your PC and log in with your user:

Step 2: Click on the Steam tab you’ll see at the top left once you’re logged in. When you click it, a list of options will drop down click on Settings or Preferences.

Step 3: When you click on Settings, a window with several options will open on the left the last is Steam Play. Click it and you will see the following:

As you can see the first checkbox that says Enable Steam Play for supported titles is enabled if it isn’t, enable it. And at the bottom where it indicates Proton Experimental click it and select the latest version, youll see the first number determines the version as youll notice in the screenshot, at the time of making this tutorial were on 7. Finally, check (if it isnt) the checkbox that says: Enable Steam Play for other titles.

Lastly click OK. Attached here is another screenshot:

Note: It’s not recommended to use the experimental version, because it often has bugs as a test version and its best not to use it except if a game doesn’t work as a last resort.

Step 4: Once Proton is enabled, the Steam app may restart automatically. If it doesn’t, close the application and reopen it. When it restarts, Proton packages usually download, but if it doesn’t happen now, it will in the next step.

Step 5: Go back to the Steam Library, or Library, and there you’ll find your games. Now the titles originally for Windows will display like this:

In place of this:

In case you didn’t notice the subtle difference now the Install button is blue because it’s available for our Linux OS, in this case Fedora.

Step 6: Press Install. It may download Proton at this point, so be patient. After that, the game will download and install if it doesn’t, click Install again.

And with this the tutorial is practically finished, you just need to follow the installation steps Steam gives you. When the window you see here appears, if we choose Create Desktop Shortcut it will create a shortcut, like Firefox or LibreOffice. And if we don’t check that option, we’ll have to open Steam each time we want to start the game (which I find tidier, but it’s a matter of preference).

Step 7: Play!

Is the game The Walking Dead: Season Two compatible with Linux Fedora

One could say yes, using Proton but I must say that it is not always perfect the conversion of a video game originally for Windows to Linux. While it is true that in most cases it will run perfectly there will also be exceptions in some cases. Unfortunately, you cannot know beforehand if an error will occur, in my experience it normally doesn’t, I never had that problem, but it is a possibility.

To know for sure beforehand, there is a way: consult the community’s experience, that is, other users experience. The community has set up a site where users leave their feedback on each game mentioning their OS, hardware components, etc. At a glance you can see if someone with your distro, be it Fedora, Ubuntu or any other, had a good or bad experience.

The site Im talking about is ProtonDB and to quickly check if a Windows Steam game works on Linux, the best thing is to look at the rating:

      Native: It’s a native Linux game, created specifically for it.
      Platinum: Works perfectly on Linux.
      Gold: Works very well, with maybe a minor fix easily solvable.
      Silver: Works with a minor issue that doesn’t impair gameplay.
      Bronze: Works, but sometimes stops or has major errors.
      Borked: Doesn’t work: won’t start or crashes too much.

Here’s a screenshot as an example. As you can see, for Resident Evil the category is Platinum:

Logically, from Silver up means the game will run quite well or even perfectly. Another thing we can do is look at comments from users with the same distro as ours. In any case, you can check the compatibility of The Walking Dead: Season Two on Linux here:

Supported languages: Languages supported by this video game:

  • 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇬🇧 English, 🇫🇷 French, 🇩🇪 German, 🇮🇹 Italian, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇨🇳 Chinese
  • 🇷🇺 Russian, 🇰🇷 Korean, 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese, 🇵🇹 Portuguese, 🇵🇱 Polish, 🇹🇷 Turkish, etc.

Official video:

Official website: https://help.skybound.com/

Metacritic

80

Metacritic Score

Where to buy the game The Walking Dead: Season Two cheap

There are several retailers where you can buy cheaply Steam games, below I mention two of the cheapest and most reliable:



Once youve purchased the game, you just have to redeem the code in your Steam account and you’re set.

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