Friendly reminder: Shadow Warrior 2 is free to grab on GOG and it can be played on Linux using Wine
+ In case you haven't already heard about it, if you have a GOG account you can get Shadow Warrior 2 for free here
Shadow Warrior 2 sadly didn't get a native Linux release like the first reboot but using a combination of Wine and DXVK you can get it running fairly smoothly (on semi outdated hardware)
How to get it running
The game got an install script for Lutris a few hours ago that runs by installing with the offline setup from GOG.
Another option is to install and run GOG Galaxy which you can use to download and update the game and also to synchronize your savegames.
Here is a video demonstration of it running on my cpu bottlenecked hardware (i5 2500 + 1060 3GB), so with any newer or overclocked CPU you should be good to go.
Quick Troubleshooting (any other fixes are welcome)
Game running really really slow ingame:
Right click the game/GOG Galaxy in Lutris, select wine configuration and in the new window set the windows version to windows 10
If it's still slow, right click it in Lutris, select configure and go to system settings. Enable 'run in terminal'
Invisible Floors:Right click the game in Lutris and make sure you have DXVK enabled as invisible floors usually occur in wined3d11
Another way to check if DXVK is running and working is to set the environment variable DXVK_HUD to 'fps'
Prior to the release of Shadow Warrior 2, I had purchased both Shadow Warrior "Classic" and Shadow Warrio, thinking I might play them back-to-back once I had all three.
But after the devs/publisher reneged on a promised Linux release, I swore I would never buy this game. And now I don't have to. I can enjoy their game and they get NADA from me.
Fuck them. Thank you GoG.
Adamhm also made a wine wrapper for Shadow Warrior 2 https://www.gog.com/forum/shadow_warrior_series/shadow_warrior_2_for_linux
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