After searching a little for a tutorial of how to play this amazing game on GNU/Linux with no success at all, I decided to share a simple step-by-step of how to achieve it (and playing soooo smooth!):

UPDATE 12/08/2025: you can check it out a super basic video of how to do that: 

1. Download the game and unzip it to a folder. For example: /home/<you>/Games/VotV/
2. Open Steam and click on "Add a game" option (at the bottom-left of the main windows of Steam)
3. Click on "Browse" to open the folder where is located the VotV.exe (following the example: /home/<you>/Games/VotV/pa07_0011/WindowsNoEditor/)
4. Once is selected you'll find it under the "INSTALLED LOCALY" section of your games library as a "VotV.exe"
5. Select it and click the gears icon and select "Properties".
6. It open a new window where you have to set two paths as you can see it below:
   
7. Don't forget to open the "Compatibility" section to force of using Proton:
8. The first time it'll raise an error of lacking of MVC++ Runtime. Say "Yes"
   
9. Wait unitl  the installation is completed
   
10. Enjoy!

Adding to this conversation. When you're extracting the files into your chosen directory, Make sure you have "Keep Directory Structure" selected In the extract.

Otherwise the prompt to Install "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime" Won't give you an option to install and you'll be stuck like me thinking you did something wrong.
Great guide BTW, Works on Ubuntu. 

Great guide! Thank you!
Works like a charm on Debian.

Did you have any luck finding or creating an "assets" folder with this method?

Also figured out how to share game sound in a discord call: https://endless.ersoft.org/pulseaudio-loopback/

Just posting it here so its documented somewhere, add `WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER=1` to your launch options if you want the TV/monitor to display your mp4 files, otherwise they will always come up as blank

Just only to update/confirm that new version 0.8.0 works flawlessly on Linux ;-)

just a note if people dont have steam there's also lutris which is pretty good lets you use wine or steams proton or even GE proton

HI, i know this is an old tutorial but if i found it useful in 2024 then probably others will, just a little heads up, if the game gets some keys stuck like if you were holding that key but you aren't, it's an ibus error, i think they fixed it in the last update (so update it and check) but if the error persists then switch to XIM, and that should work (NOTE: IBUS MANAGES ALL THE SCRIPTS AND ALL THAT STUFF IN NON-LATIN LANGUAGES SO IF YOU USE ANY LANGUAGE THAT'S NOT LATIN BASED DO NOT CHANGE TO XIM, UPDATE IBUS INSTEAD)

does this also work for macOS