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Last Updated: 07 July 2026 @ 21:23 CE(S)T

Installation Instructions

General Information

This section contains installation instructions for the base games as well as various mods. You can follow the steps manually or use one of the provided Lutris installation scripts. Please read everything on this page, as it is all relevant to the installatin process and can save you a lot of headaches (I've had them already). If you want to know more about Wine, what it is, how it works and why some of the steps below are necessary, see here

Important

These scripts can be used as-is but I highly recommend reading them beforehand. In some cases I made opinionated choices which may not be to your liking (texture packs, config settings). You can also adapt them to your liking, especially in terms of functional mods which add a lot of quality of life features. All scripts are editable so you can change them and delete stuff or copy in other stuff before saving them to a file on your machine.

Caution

In contrast to Windows, file paths in Linux are case sensitive! Whenever you handle any paths in a script, double-check that all paths are spelled correctly, including capitalization, otherwise you will end up with unexpected results that will probably just looks like whatever you tried to do didn't work.

Important

The scripts assume that the GOG version of the game is used. If you don't have this version, the scripts will not work out of the box. You may be able to adapt the accordingly, but this is not a use case I can reasonably support here. If you'd still like help with this, please reach out and I'll see what I can do.

Warning

If you link Lutris to your GOG account, the scripts will download the game from GOG by default. It will try to choose a language matching your locale. If this is not what you want (as is the case with me), I recommend you unlink your GOG account from Lutris, download the game version of your choice and provide it to the installer by hand when prompted. If you try this with your GOG account still linked, the installation won't work for reasons I don't understand.

Note

The scripts will install German versions of mods, if available, by default. If you prefer a different language you need to provide the respective executable files or make needed provisions yourself.

With that said, here's what you need to do:

  1. Download the game from GOG. If you want to install a mod, you can download the necessary files as well. The scripts download them automatically by default, but if something goes wrong, you'll have to do everything from scratch again.
  2. Copy the content of the script you want to use into a file with a .yaml file ending (or .yml, if you must, but I won't endorse such depravity here).
  3. Open up Lutris, and configure the Wine version you need (see here). For Gothic I this does not matter (as far as I know), for Gothic II you need either:
    • Vanilla Wine (or a variant thereof) version < 9.18
    • Vanilla Wine (or a variant thereof) of any version but without WoW64 compatibility setting (can easily be found with ProtonUp-Qt)
    • Proton (at least recent version) will not work because they do not support 32-bit prefixes
  4. In Lutris, Press the button to add a new game, select Install from a local install script, in the opening window, select Browse... and select the script you just saved. You will be asked where to install the game. Make sure you use different directories for each game or mod.
  5. When Lutris assembles all the necessary files, you will be asked to "Select the GOG game setup file". Click on the three dots to browse your files and select the executable of the game you downloaded. The file has an .exe file ending. If you want to install a mod or use any other large files, you can click on the dropdown menu next to the listed file and choose "Select File". This will let you click on the button with the three dots next to this file in the list and select a local file from your files system. This can save you a lot of time if you need to redo the installation for any reason (which may well happen). If you need to download files from worldofgothic.de, you might run into a rate limiting. You can just click on "Retry" until it works.
  6. Everything else should now happen automatically. Depending on the script in question, you may need to click "Next", "Exit", "Proceed" or similar buttons in appearing installer windows. In some cases you will need to select the Gothic installation directory for an installer. If this happens, do so. Be aware that the Wine file system may be listed under the C: or the Z: drive.

Lutris Install Scripts