Play a game without opening Lutris itself?

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I’ve been trying out Lutris, namely to install Wine games in their own prefixes so I can isolate them and have version control and such.

Basically though, I wanted to know if there was a way too launch a wine game installed through Lutris without having to open lutris itself.
IE, I install a game myself, no script, through Lutris and have it make a shortcut to the game on my desktop and just launch through that.
Currently it seems shortcuts to Games still have to open lutris.

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Has anyone found out how to do this yet? I would also like to open the game without needing to open Lutris.

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I know the way how to run games which were installed via Lutris through Midnnignt commander, or you you want to run them only using shortcuts ?

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you could use

WINEPREFIX=/path/to/the/game /path/to/wine/folder/wine /path/to/the/game/drive_c/etc/etc/etc/game_executable.exe

Example with paths similar to what I use:

WINEPREFIX=~/Games/magic-the-gathering-arena "/home/USERNAME/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/tkg-4.1-x86_64/bin/wine64" "/home/USERNAME/Games/magic-the-gathering-arena/drive_c/Program Files/Wizards of the Coast/MTGA/MTGA.exe"

I used “” as a way to make my terminal understand spaces. I prefer that instead of just putting “Wizards\ of\ the\ Coast” and no quotes.

You could put all this text somewhere for future use or create a simple launcher. The differente being adding env WINEPREFIX=... instead of purely defining WINEPREFIX.

This method should work with all Wine games, but not Winesteam, since those methods would rely on opening Winesteam etc etc.

I may not be 100% correct on the method, but it should be along those lines.

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Hmm I’ll try that out and get back to you, thanks for that.