THIS IS ONLY TO DOWNLOAD THE WINDOW FILES. NOT TO LAUNCH THE GAME IN STEAM FOR LINUX.
1. Open Steam for Linux
2. Right Click on whatever the Windows game you want to install is and click “Create Desktop Shortcut”
3. Go to your Desktop or Desktop folder in home folder.
4. Open the icon you created for your game in a text editor. Nano, vim, leafpad, gedit etc.
5. You will see a line that says “steam [url=steam://rungameid/226320]steam://rungameid/226320[/url]”. You will need the ID part at the end. (This is Marvel Heroes Free to play on Windows)
6. Go to your home folder ex.. /home/yourusername/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps folder.
7. If you have at least one game installed in Steam you should have a file called appmanifest_SOMENUMBER.acf. If there is more then one, anyone of them should work.
8. Open this file in a text editor.
9. Change the number for “appID” and “GameID” to the ID part you found in step 5.
10. Change “installdir” and “name” to the name of the game you are installing.
11. Do Save As… on the file and save it under the new name of appmanifest_IDFROMSTEP5.acf. So in my case the new name of the file would be appmanifest_226320.acf. Save the file in the same location as the other appmanifest files.
12. Close Steam for Linux completely and reopen it. Go to the Downloads section and your Windows game will be downloading.
Picture below of before and after of the appmanifest file using the ID and name above.
Before:
After:
I tried to be as detailed as I could in the instructions. If you have any questions feel free to ask.
