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I was able to get The Thaumaturge October 2023 Steam Next Fest working pretty quickly, even though it was throwing “Microsoft Visual C++ runtime” errors at launch on Manjaro KDE Linux.

• Install The Thaumaturge Demo from Steam
• Install protontricks
• Install ProntonUp-Qt
• Launch Protontricks: “Select the default wineprefix” and click OK
• Select “Install a Windows DLL or component” and click OK
• Selected and install “vcrun2022”
• Then you will also want to select and install “mspatcha”
• Close Protontricks
• Launch ProtonUp-Qt: Install for “Steam” and then click “Add version” to installed “GE-Proton8-16”
• Close ProtonUp-Qt
• Within Steam, Rick-click on “The Thaumaturge Demo” and select “Properties…”
• Click on Compatibility > check “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool” and then select “GE-Proton8-16” from the list
• Close the Properties window”
• Play The Thaumaturge Demo

NOTE: Some of the tutorial video that come up will display fine, but then when they repeats it has an issue; this doesn’t impact game play.