First of all, have Winetricks installed in your distro.
On Arch you usually do it like this:


Install the game.

Go to the game prefix folder located in "[SteamFolder]/steamapps/compatdata/434570/pfx".
[SteamFolder] is of course where you defined your Steam library to be, so replace it with that.

Empty the "pfx" folder, delete everything inside. Some people may be able to make it work without emptying the folder, but for me it only worked like this, it needed a fresh setup.

Run Winetricks inside the "pfx" folder like this:
Replace [PATH] with the absolute path that leads to the "pfx" folder.

This command will create automatically a fresh prefix structure for Wine inside the "pfx" folder and also install both .NET Framework 4.0 and XNA Framework 4.0 there.

You can leave Proton as the default one from Valve or try using Proton GE, but for me the default Proton works.


After that, If you see an error dialog saying "Unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application", just ignore it and click OK. You'll soon hear the game intro sound and know it will open. That error dialog is expected to appear only the first time you run.