To put it quite simply: It starts and opens a large number of processes when I open it via steam and many if not all often persist across crashes or deaths. I run it on Linux via Proton.It's in a pre-alpha phase so all of this is expected at SOME level but I feel like, and it very much looks like some of these extra processes are intentional. If 'reaper' is supposed to clean up then it isn't doing its job. Maybe that's a linux thing. Maybe that's a Steam thing. It overall just feels very messy. Very "We are Legion" which is fine in game, but if this is intentional long term for the running architecture I would suggest against it.

Thank you for your time.

So, this almost too old but I'm putting this in for documentation purposes:

pkill GameThread

pkill explorer.exe

pkill gameoverlayui

Generally that kills all of it. It's at least 8 and possibly as much as or more than 14 processes that spawn on start that I notice. Some of that is definitely steam building the container. Some of it is not. These three lines clean up the mess.