OpenGothic

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention this project. It is an open-source reimplementation of the game engine which means that you provide the game files yourself (still have to buy it, duh) but the engine does the rest. The best part is that it has a Linux build so you don’t have to go through wine to play (just once for installation).

There are several things to note:

• The project is still in a pre-release stage so don’t expect a feature-complete or fully stable product
• Gothic 1 is not officially supported but might run as well
• Some behavior of the original game engine is not 100% reproduced
• Most of the functional mods will not work because Ninja or Union are not supported (see here)
• Not all of the extension/conversion mods will work (see here)
• D3D11 renderers don’t work (although the game already looks nice OOTB)

If that doesn’t deter you, here’s what you need to do:

1. Install the base game with wine (either using the command line or any of the ways below)
2. Download a Linux build from here
   • Alternatively, you can build the engine yourself, see here for instructions
3. Run the game by executing the given script and providing the path to your install of Gothic II: Gothic2Notr.sh -g /path/to/Gothic_2
   • See here for additional options like directly loading a savegame or enabling ray tracing (if your hardware is capable of it)