As per title it’s on my list of games to play. I’m running Linux are there any changes I need to do to get it to work Also what’s a good channel for tutorials

  • Grntrenchman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I tried different guides, and eventually went to the source, this worked great for me.

    From SE Discord, posted by “lord.of.woe”:

    Space Engineers Linux Installation Guide Last Updated 2025-07-24

    Prerequisite Packages

    git

    wget

    WINE

    Step 1: Install GE-Proton9-25 and GE-Proton10-X. There are several methods you can use to install this, but this guide uses only common terminal commands. (Edit: I used Protonplus for this)

    wget -qO- https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/download/GE-Proton9-25/GE-Proton9-25.tar.gz | tar xzvf - -C "${HOME}/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d"
wget -qO- "$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/latest | grep "\"browser_download_url\": \".*\.tar\.gz\"" | cut -d'"' -f4)" | tar xzvf - -C "${HOME}/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d"

    Step 2: Remove local Space Engineers data. ‼️ WARNING: THIS WILL PERMANENTLY DELETE ALL SAVES, GAME DATA, ETC. THAT ARE NOT BACKED UP TO THE STEAM CLOUD OR ELSEWHERE. ‼️

    export STEAMAPPS_PATH=${HOME}/.steam/steam/steamapps # edit as necessary
rm -rf ${STEAMAPPS_PATH}/compatdata/244850

    Step 3: Restart Steam

    Step 4: Change the compatibility layer in Steam to GE-Proton9-25.

    Step 5: Launch Space Engineers in Steam and close the game upon reaching the main menu.

    Step 6: Install dotnet48. DO NOT USE PROTONTRICKS.

    WINEPREFIX=${STEAMAPPS_PATH}/compatdata/244850/pfx winetricks --force -q dotnet48

    or experimentally

    WINE=${HOME}/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton9-25/files/bin/wine64 
WINEPREFIX=${STEAMAPPS_PATH}/compatdata/244850/pfx ${HOME}/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton9-25/protonfixes/winetricks --force -q dotnet48

    Step 7: Change the compatibility layer in Steam to GE-Proton10-X, where X is the minor version.

    Step 8: Launch the game and hope everything worked.

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Space Engineers 1 mostly just worked. Not great sim speed, even on a decently powerful system, but as long as the world didn’t get too complicated it was fine. Restarting the game from time to time helped.

    SE2 on the other hand, I was unable to get to run.

    Edit: I got my copy through Steam.

  • Winthrowe@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I would be surprised if you had to do anything special for Linux, but don’t know for sure. Splitsie is my go-to for specific tutorial, but Engineered Coffee’s let’s play is also fairly informative, although not structured as pure tutorials.

    • Vikthor@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Splitsie has recently released released a new tutorial series for the Apex survival update, I second the recommendation.

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      28 days ago

      To play multiplayer SE it’s vital that you install dotnet4. As of a month ago (when I last installed it) there’s a bug making that difficult - I had to delete a registry key, after which the dotnet4 install went through fine.