PS: The whole proton GE latest and protonplus thing is just to get a wine runner more likely to work on the first try. I welcome you to try with whatever latest wine version is already installed.
Here's what I did
Install most recent version of lutris for your distro (Haven't tried flatpak version of lutris)
Install ProtonPlus Install Proton GE latest with protonplus
Throw RTFM into its own folder somewhere in your Home directory, hopefully on an EXT4 drive, not NTFS.
I put mine in a new folder called RTFM: /home/atlas47/Documents/Portable Games/RTFM/
Open Lutris
Set proton GE latest as your default wine runner in lutris
Plus icon in top left to add a game
Add a locally installed game (should be bottom entry)
On the game info tab, select your Runner (Wine, Proton GE)
Also add a game name (mine was RTFM)
On the second tab (game options) select your executable, your .exe (mine was in /home/atlas47/Documents/Portable Games/RTFM/RTFM_win32/RTFM_win32/RTFM-win32/RTFM.exe)
On the same tab, select your working directory as the folder that has the .exe in it (/home/atlas47/Documents/Portable Games/RTFM/RTFM_win32/RTFM_win32/RTFM-win32/)
Hit save, then go find the RTFM entry in your lutris games, then run it. Wait a very long time for first launch and do not stop it before it launches unless unless you want to restart it the whole process.
Versions in order of importance:
GE-Proton10-34. I had steam installed and used proton before, so you may need to run a windows game with steam first. This should only be required for proton versions and not wine versions
I think there is a very frustrating, game-breaking bug on mac. We got to a point where it showed 7 shapes in a row onscreen, and there were 3 more off-screen to the right. The first two were not selectable, and the ones that were selectable were selected out of order. They were rearrangeable, like section 2. There were duplicates of the same shape. Couldn't find an input that worked.
The malware input also didn't work, so I don't think it was the ending. It was very frustrating, since the nature of the game makes it unclear if this was an intentional "glitch" or a real bug, so we banged our collective head against the wall for a long time and eventually gave up. I retried on windows and had no issues, so I don't think it was intentional. Has anyone else encountered this?
Hello! Just wanted to let you know we're looking into this - we can sometimes replicate this bug, so hopefully a patch will be coming soon. Thanks for the info, was really helpful for helping us hunt it down!
Hey, I’m not sure whether I got the right ending?
I tried entering override butterfly but I just got a syntax error.
divingbomb is the only thing that worked/I found out.
idk whether it’s relevant, but I used a german keyboard layout.
Anyways, I already liked what I saw up until now, but wish I could’ve gotten more of the lore :3
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Yooo I got it working on linux first try.
PS: The whole proton GE latest and protonplus thing is just to get a wine runner more likely to work on the first try. I welcome you to try with whatever latest wine version is already installed.
Here's what I did
Install most recent version of lutris for your distro (Haven't tried flatpak version of lutris)
Install ProtonPlus
Install Proton GE latest with protonplus
Throw RTFM into its own folder somewhere in your Home directory, hopefully on an EXT4 drive, not NTFS.
I put mine in a new folder called RTFM:
/home/atlas47/Documents/Portable Games/RTFM/
Open Lutris
Set proton GE latest as your default wine runner in lutris
Plus icon in top left to add a game
Add a locally installed game (should be bottom entry)
On the game info tab, select your Runner (Wine, Proton GE)
Also add a game name (mine was RTFM)
On the second tab (game options) select your executable, your .exe (mine was in /home/atlas47/Documents/Portable Games/RTFM/RTFM_win32/RTFM_win32/RTFM-win32/RTFM.exe)
On the same tab, select your working directory as the folder that has the .exe in it (/home/atlas47/Documents/Portable Games/RTFM/RTFM_win32/RTFM_win32/RTFM-win32/)
Hit save, then go find the RTFM entry in your lutris games, then run it. Wait a very long time for first launch and do not stop it before it launches unless unless you want to restart it the whole process.
Game should launch
it works w/ vanilla wine too lmao
I agree. For most users all the steps with Proton GE and Protonplus should be skipped
Versions in order of importance: GE-Proton10-34. I had steam installed and used proton before, so you may need to run a windows game with steam first. This should only be required for proton versions and not wine versions
Lutris 0.5.22 Fedora version installed with dnf
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Operating
System: Nobara Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.25.0
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Qt Version: 6.10.3
Product Name (Motherboard): B550M-ITX/ac
I think there is a very frustrating, game-breaking bug on mac. We got to a point where it showed 7 shapes in a row onscreen, and there were 3 more off-screen to the right. The first two were not selectable, and the ones that were selectable were selected out of order. They were rearrangeable, like section 2. There were duplicates of the same shape. Couldn't find an input that worked.
The malware input also didn't work, so I don't think it was the ending. It was very frustrating, since the nature of the game makes it unclear if this was an intentional "glitch" or a real bug, so we banged our collective head against the wall for a long time and eventually gave up. I retried on windows and had no issues, so I don't think it was intentional. Has anyone else encountered this?
Hello! Just wanted to let you know we're looking into this - we can sometimes replicate this bug, so hopefully a patch will be coming soon. Thanks for the info, was really helpful for helping us hunt it down!
Does anyone know similar games? Either online or physical (printed maybe)
Tin Can has a similar mode where you have to ask friends what error codes mean as your escape pod is destroying itself.
Thanks!
Haven’t played it yet but looking at the blurb, the whole schtick sounds similar to Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (steam) and Defusal (Roblox).
"Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" was the flagship title of this genre some years back.
Keep talking and nobody explodes :)
Hey, I’m not sure whether I got the right ending? I tried entering override butterfly but I just got a syntax error. divingbomb is the only thing that worked/I found out. idk whether it’s relevant, but I used a german keyboard layout.
Anyways, I already liked what I saw up until now, but wish I could’ve gotten more of the lore :3
Thanks so much for the heads up re the syntax error - we're working on a patch for this and will let you know when it's live.
also would be very fun as a boardgame
someone explain lore pls
any plans to build a native version for linux gamers?
At the moment there aren't plans for any additional builds as this was just a quickie one-week project. We really appreciate the interest though!
the logo looks like the steam deck one, still cool
bro why only 32 bit for windows
wait your the devs of mini metro??
We sure are :)
just wasn't expecting such a shift in ambience! really cool game though. it seems you take making games pretty seriously :)
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no Linux :(. But that makes sense, because there is nothing to troubleshoot. ;)~
This was enjoyable. Thank you
Thanks for checking it out! <3
Pretty cool vibe, might have been a bit boring for my troubleshooter but idk
you should have a paperback copy of the manual available for sale
We NEED mobile version
You might wanna make a APK so you can Make alot of Downloads.
early gamer on this game (2026-04-07)
yea it looks really fun but i got an anti-virus warning when i tried to launch i so im a little worried but its never stopped me before
relax smartsrceen is just lying to you
if the game is not signed it will ask if you want to launch or not does it say any thing about that?
why are there no comments on this page, has me suspect
New to itch! All of the hype has been on our bluesky/twitter/insta :)