Play as a Mage and select your initial skills with bonus cards. As you complete levels you can purchase new abilities to survive the waves of minions until you face the boss. Each level is randomly generated and enemies have several abilities of their own. Survive, don't survive...



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Deathroned in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the itch.io demo version of Deathroned. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.0

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 3.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Also click the 64-bit tab and download the 64-bit version of Wine 3.0

Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 3.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed and you can close this window

Download Deathroned for free:
https://elotroadri.itch.io/deathroned

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click install


Click "Install a non-listed program"


Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next


Name the virtual drive: deathroned
Click Next


Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next


Select Wine 3.0
Click Next


Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply


Libraries Tab
Manually enter each library

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi

Select each library
Click Edit
Select "Native (Windows)"
Click OK
Click Apply when each library is entered and edited


Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK


PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_dedx11
• POL_Install_physx
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2012
• POL_Install_vcrun2013

Click Next


Note: All packages should download and install

Click Cancel


Extract the Deathroned game folder to the Program Files directory
Full path: /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/deathroned/drive_c/Program Files

Downloading/Installing Wine 3.14-staging

Go to: https://lutris.net/files/runners/
Click wine-staging-3.14-x86_64.tar.gz to download
Save to your Desktop


Open wine-staging-3.14-x86_64.tar.gz with your Archive Manager
Click Extract


Extract to the PlayOnLinux Wine directory
Full path: /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-amd64/


Download/Install DXVK

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
Download dxvk-0.92.tar.gz
Save to your Desktop


Extract DXVK 0.92
Open the extracted folder
Copy the dll files from x64


Past in the deathroned/Binaries/Win64 directory
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/deathroned/drive_c/Program Files/deathroned/Binaries/Win64

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"


Select "deathroned.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Deathroned
Click Next


Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next


Change Wine version

General Tab
Click the down-arrow and select Wine: staging-3.14-x86_64
Arguments: -D3D10


Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses


Close configure

Select Deathroned
Click Run


Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Deathroned may take 20 seconds to initially launch, so be patient

Optimization
Since this is only an early release, there are some missing features like graphics/video options.
But it is an Unreal Engine 4 game and you can do some ajustments yourself.

Launch the game one time then exit
Go to the Deathroned WindowsEditor directory and open GameUserSettings.ini
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/deathroned/drive_c/users/username/Local Settings/Application Data/deathroned/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor/GameUserSettings.ini

Note: Remember to replace "username" with your Linux login name

After doing some research I found a bunch of commands that can help Deathroned run smoother in Wine

Copy/paste the following commands into GameUserSettings.ini

Code:

[/Script/Engine.GameUserSettings]
bUseVSync=False
ResolutionSizeX=1920
ResolutionSizeY=1080
LastUserConfirmedResolutionSizeX=1280
LastUserConfirmedResolutionSizeY=1024
WindowPosX=-1
WindowPosY=-1
bUseDesktopResolutionForFullscreen=False
FullscreenMode=2
LastConfirmedFullscreenMode=2
Version=5

[ScalabilityGroups]
sg.AntiAliasingQuality=1
sg.TextureQuality=1
sg.EffectsQuality=1
sg.ResolutionQuality=80
sg.ShadowQuality=1
sg.PostProcessQuality=1
r.MotionBlurQuality=1
r.BlurGBuffer=0
r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=1
r.AmbientOcclusionRadiusScale=1.7
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=1
r.RenderTargetPoolMin=300
r.LensFlareQuality=0
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.EyeAdaptationQuality=0
r.BloomQuality=1
r.FastBlurThreshold=0
r.Upscale.Quality=1
r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0
r.TranslucencyLightingVolumeDim=24
r.RefractionQuality=0
r.SSR.Quality=0
r.SceneColorFormat=3
r.DetailMode=0
r.TranslucencyVolumeBlur=0
r.MaterialQualityLevel=0
r.Streaming.MipBias=2.5
r.MaxAnisotropy=0
r.Streaming.PoolSize=200
r.LightFunctionQuality=1
r.ShadowQuality=1
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=1
r.Shadow.MaxResolution=512
r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.06
r.Shadow.DistanceScale=0.6
r.Shadow.CSM.TransitionScale=0
r.Gamma=1.000000

Should appear like this
Click Save


Conclusion:
Initially Deathroned was running in Direct X 11 mode and ran pretty slow on my GeForce GTX 1060.
So after adding the Quality settings and options to the GameUserSettings.ini I was able to play with a decent frame rate. Feel free to mess with the Quality settings to get better frame rates or visuals.
The lighting in-game is kinda bright and I tried to compensate with gamma command, but it didn't seem to take. Other than that, it ran fine, just have to wait a short time for the game to launch. For now its totally free, so give it a try...

Keyboard Controls:
WASD = Move
Shift = Short Sprint
Enter = Ok & Start
Q = Select spells with Mouse or WASD
Left Mouse = Fire
Right Mouse = Melee
Middle Mouse = Special

Gameplay Video:


Screenshots: