How to pirate games on Linux?

I hate DRM as much as anyone else, which is why I'm going to show you how to install regular repacks on a Linux machine. I'm using Ubuntu but I see no reason why this wouldn't work for other distros.

For legal reasons, this tutorial is only meant to be used for running games you already own and just can't run for some reason.

Find the game

If you manage to find a .zip of the game with all of its files and an executable to launch them, you have won and you can just skip to step.

This is however extremely rare, and you will have to deal with repacks, which are compressed versions of the games. This is really good for saving storage space, but makes them unusable on Linux. At least that's what I always thought.

Let's run it via Steam as a non-Steam game

Locate it in the bottom left corner of Steam.

Add the repack .exe

This step is extremely important. Without it your games will not work.

Select your home directory and press OK.

I usually just uncheck everything besides the "Main game files"

Now we wait. The game files are being unpacked into your home directory.

You can close out of this window. We will need to add the game files themselves into Steam, as currently Steam only has the setup.exe which is useless for running the game.

You can however run the file integrity check if you want. It won't hurt.

Open Steam, add a non-steam game, and navigate into the directory where the files were unpackaged. Find a [game's name].exe and add it.

You will need to enable Proton for the game itself as well.

You may now enjoy your game.