Proton Experimental begins work to allow Resident Evil Village to run on Linux

Giant Vampire Lady + Penguin = Love

Just tried the demo. Worked fine, except for the above mentioned issues. I had to edit the .ini to change the graphics settings and could not figure out how to change the resolution.

And for the game proper you will need a mod to change the FOV because it's just silly narrow.

Giant Vampire Lady + Penguin = Love

Now there's an image.

Aside from remakes, Resident Evil hasn't produced a decent game in over 10 years. Not heard much about Village, but I don't have high hopes. Regardless, if it doesn't have native Linux support, I'm not interested.


Last edited by WorMzy on 9 May 2021 at 11:27 am UTC

just completed the game

Super nice!

This year I've played through Resident Evil Remake as well as the remakes of Zero and 2. (thanks to GloriousEggroll) Leaving RE3 as the only game from the main series I haven't played yet.

However, given the poor reception that game has gotten I decided not to buy it until I could get it for 15 euro or less. So, by the time I finally buy it, Re:Village should be patched, fully working on linux as well as including some good dlc content. (fingers crossed)


Last edited by Feist on 8 May 2021 at 7:26 pm UTC

Did the Japanese use MF on this one too?

Edit: yep they did...


Last edited by BielFPs on 10 May 2021 at 4:18 pm UTC

Hopefully they get Distant Kingdoms work as well!


Last edited by Spirimint on 8 May 2021 at 8:43 pm UTC

What is Steam Linux Runtime - Sniper

I had to edit the .ini to change the graphics settings and could not figure out how to change the resolution.

It's FullScreenDisplayMode. I've copied some parameters from the config file of my installed RE7.

just completed the game

The whole game or just the demo?

What is Steam Linux Runtime - Sniper

Likely the latest steam runtime (collection of specific version of library dependencies) container. They each have a TF2 class as their name, previous one was Soldier.
It just means it's a new runtime with updated libraries, don't bother with it Steam handles those in the backstage.

Just found the readme https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/steamrt/sniper/README.md


Last edited by a0kami on 9 May 2021 at 2:39 am UTC

Woaah... they are asking 59.99€ for this trash game. Triple A gaming in a nutshell.
Saw some gameplay videos, its really awful game it seems.. gunplay is sort of ok it seems except the stupidly narrow FoV. atmosphere is zero, puzzles seem to be made for 4 year olds. There seems to be not much horror in this. Enemies don't even follow you everywhere, so you can reset their positions. Graphis look quite dated for todays Triple A studio. Main protagonist seems to scream and make noises when he sees corpses and whatnot but at the same time just grows a new hand lol. Voiceacting is terrible etc etc

Yeah, i bet if this game had different name than Resident Evil, all would say that its quite a trash.

my 2 cents

nice to see proton supporting new games fast though.


Last edited by Xpander on 9 May 2021 at 8:28 am UTC

While kinda off kinda on topic, I have been playing Village on Stadia. I'm not sure what all the negativity is exactly about but having actually played the game I'm rather enjoying it. So far it's a really good monster baddie game. The game play is similar to RE7 (which I personally don't mind) and the graphics look very atmospheric and content appropriate to me. Maybe I'm a weenie but there's been a few good jump scares and feelings of dread while I've been playing. I'll buy it on steam in a few months when there is a GOTY edition with what ever DLC comes out.

I'll buy it on steam in a few months when there is a GOTY edition with what ever DLC comes out.

Is any DLC even planned? The latest two RE games had none, and RE7 had a season pass available while RE8 hasn't.

As far as I know there is a multiplayer dlc coming. Resident Evil RE:VERSE is what it's called https://www.residentevil.com/reverse/us/. but otherwise that's all I know of. RE7 had what seemed like tons of DLC so I'm hoping Village has some too.

The title Resident Evil Village sounds like it ought to be a theme park :-)

This is why I have no hesitation buying tons of games on Steam. Even if I don't like the game after trying it out, it puts money into Valve's pocket and encourages them to keep putting gamers first.

Woaah... they are asking 59.99€ for this trash game. Triple A gaming in a nutshell.
Saw some gameplay videos, its really awful game it seems.. gunplay is sort of ok it seems except the stupidly narrow FoV. atmosphere is zero, puzzles seem to be made for 4 year olds. There seems to be not much horror in this. Enemies don't even follow you everywhere, so you can reset their positions. Graphis look quite dated for todays Triple A studio. Main protagonist seems to scream and make noises when he sees corpses and whatnot but at the same time just grows a new hand lol. Voiceacting is terrible etc etc

Yeah, i bet if this game had different name than Resident Evil, all would say that its quite a trash.

my 2 cents

nice to see proton supporting new games fast though.

Exactly. I understand that someone might enjoy this, but I'm really surprise how much traction this game is getting (it's all due to the tick vampire lady, isn't it?). Better spend the money on some Linux native indies.

That said... If someone wants to stream this and make fun of it, I'm so on board with that.


Last edited by Rooster on 10 May 2021 at 7:50 am UTC

Yay, reviews from watching some videos! \o/ I gather the negativity comes from being unable to play this on Linux.

The title Resident Evil Village sounds like it ought to be a theme park :-)

I agree they could have called it just Resident Evil VIII, but in their defence there aren't actually many words starting with VIII-like characters such as Village.