Minor jokes aside, it's more a matter of personal preference and convenience. The question is though: why would you want to play it on Steam when it's been available elsewhere easily on Linux for a number of years? Simple: because you can. If this happens to you as well, you can use this as a launch option (Right click -> Properties -> Set Launch Options.):

Once done, you can open / restart Steam and it will show up as an option in your Steam Play settings when you right click -> Properties on a game:Ĭurrently though, there appears to be an issue you might encounter with ScummVM 2.1 (at least on Arch / Manjaro Linux) with it not working.

Next up, download the release archive of Roberta and extract the contents: Open a terminal app of your choice, and then go into the compatibility tools folder (create it if it doesn't exist):Ĭd ~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/ || cd ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/ Instructions (make sure you have scummvm and inotify-tools installed). Remember, Steam Play is just a feature to run compatibility layers (the biggest being Proton) and there's one named Roberta designed for running adventure games like this using a native Linux build of ScummVM. Thankfully though, with it being such an old game now from 1994, it's easy to get it running on Linux and through Steam directly too thanks to the Steam Play feature in the Linux Steam client. With the launch of the sequel Beyond a Steel Sky recently, Revolution Software decided to fix that.Ĭurrently, the build on Steam is only officially available for Windows. It's hard to believe that until now, Beneath a Steel Sky wasn't available on Steam.

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