Guide: Rockstar Games Launcher On Linux 2025

So i have been trying to get Rockstar Games Launcher to work on my Linux Mint for some time using Lutris how a website instructed me, it didnt work. I just found out you can do this very easy. Here is how:

Download the latest installer for the Rockstar Games Launcher from their website.
Open up steam and add it as a non-steam game, go to properties/compatibility and choose a wine version, i tested with proton10.9
Launch it and go through the installer. Dont Launch the Launcher at end.
Now open up your file manager and go to home/.steam/steam/steamapps/compactdata/, here find which folder is for your non steam game(it shoult be the last modified.
Open it up and go to pfx/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Rockstar Games/Launcher
Copy the currect directory and go back to steam. Select the non steam game you used for the installer and go to properties, change Start In to the dir you copied, and change target to the dir you copied + /Launcher.exe(Dont remove the " at the start and end)
You are done, just launch it again and log in and download your games!- -

4 Comments

Contramuffin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 308d

This trick also works for a lot of other non-steam games - always good to keep this trick in your hat

EccTM@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 308d (1 reply)

When I tried this, it just gave me a vague error code when trying to log in.

Kjell@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 106d

Did you try later if it worked?

On step 4, it is possible to go to home/.steam/steam/steamapps/compactdata/ and run this command in the terminal

ls --recursive | grep Rockstar

And it will output something like

Rockstar Games./3613745575/pfx/drive_c/ProgramData/Rockstar Games: ./3613745575/pfx/drive_c/ProgramData/Rockstar Games/Launcher: Rockstar Games

Which means that the correct folder is 3613745575.

It worked for me with Proton 11.0 (Beta), I can log in and play games. First it didn't work but the launcher started after I restarted my computer. I updated the system and one of the updated programs was Wine, don't know if that is connected somehow. I also tried to install Rockstar Games Launcher on Heroic and Lutris but I couldn't get it to work. I have Nvidia if it matters.