Bottles games in Lutris

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If you’ve run into issues with Lutris being able to load some games; you may have, like me, turned toward Bottles to find another way to install the game. Luckily for me, I was able to get my game to work in Bottles, but now I have the problem of the game no longer being grouped up in Lutris with all my other games! Here’s how to add a game from Bottles into your Lutris library.

Once you’ve installed the game onto Bottles:
-Go into your bottle, find the program you’ve installed, hit the three dots on the right side and click the “add to Steam” option
-Navigate into Steam on your PC, find the new application in your library, right click and go to “Properties”
-The “Shortcut” tab has information you’ll need.
-Open Lutris, click the + to add a new game, choose “add locally installed game”, Label it as you please, select the Runner option as “Linux (native games)”
-Navigate to Game Options; copy the text from the “Target” option in Steam, paste it into the “Executable” section of Lutris.
-Copy the “Start In” location from Steam, paste into the “Working directory” in Lutris.
-Copy the “Launch Options” from Steam, paste into the “Arguments” section of Lutris.
-Save the game and enjoy!
(If you’ve named the game in Lutris the same as it already has listed officially in the Lutris database, it will automatically pull the cover art and game art, etc.)

Hope this helps some people, Lutris is amazing and all, but I often find times where it doesn’t work for specific games. That’s where Bottles can occasionally help!

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Dude, this is awesome. This is exactly what I was needing.

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You don’t have to add the games to Steam to do this. You can just use bottles-cli. First, set up your bottle, install the game, and add a shortcut for it in Bottles.

In Lutris, click the ‘+’ and select ‘Add locally installed game’. Give it a name, set the runner to “Linux (Runs native games)”, then click the “Game options” tab. Set the executable to bottles-cli, and set the arguments to run -b "BOTTLE NAME" -p "PROGRAM NAME", replacing the bottle and program names as necessary.

Screenshot of Bottles showing a bottle named "test" with a program named "Internet Explorer"
Screenshot of Bottles showing a bottle named "test" with a program named "Internet Explorer"1002×762 31.3 KB

For example, to run Internet Explorer using the bottle pictured above, you’d set the arguments to run -b "test" -p "Internet Explorer".

The CLI tool has some more advanced options as well; for example, running an EXE directly, or generating a standalone script to launch your program without Bottles. Open a terminal and run bottles-cli --help for more info.