Cannot run game bought from itch.io on steam deck because of missing licenses

Submitted ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨falseprophet@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

I am trying to run a game that I bought on itch.io but I get no licenses error. Even if try to run it directly in desktop mode, steam just interrupts the game and displays no licenses error. Any ideas?

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LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Report it to Itch. The dev should not be packaging DRM with the game.

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- falseprophet@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I am not sure the game has DRM it seems more like Steam recognizes it as game from it own store and thinks there should be a license for it. I could be wrong though.
  
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  - LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That doesn’t happen automatically. It’s actually very illegal for it to do that. The publisher bundled a steam lib that talks to Steam.
    
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rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think the problem is that the game is literally the same build as steam’s, but the dev didn’t do a very good job of neutering the “ask a steam api” bit. They accept “lol what is steam?” as a valid answer, but not “steam is responding, and says you own 0 copies of game 8675309”.

First, check protondb. Then put a comment up on itch.io. Is anybody else complaining? Is anybody else commenting on the game at all?

Add the game to heroic and let heroic add it to Steam? I recommend always using either the latest proton-ge, or the latest of the previous proton-ge (9.27).

Or remove the steamapi library from the game’s folder. Or add a steam_appid.txt.

Or a last resort would be Goldberg.

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- Durandal@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m a little disappointed that Jenny’s number doesn’t correspond to an actual appid…
  
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  - colournoun@beehaw.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Try using it with a local area code for store loyalty cards. It usually works.
    
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- falseprophet@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I found the steam library file but when the I delete the file the game crashes. With the heroic the game just crashes after a long black screen. No info on db or itch.io I left a comment on itch.io. The game is native Linux so no proton is needed. Maybe I should try running the windows version.
  
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  - rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You might be the first person to run the Linux build, including the developer. I have a few games where the Linux version is a mess, so I have to use the Windows ver. “Win32 is Linux’s stable gaming API”.
    
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  - Laser@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You could also try replacing the steam lib with an emulator like https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/
    
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