Written by Visionary Impact
Table of Contents:
1. Screenshots
2. Installing on Windows Pc
3. Installing on Linux
4. System Requirements
5. Game features
6. Reviews
This guide describes how to use Steam Proton to play and run Windows games on your Linux computer. Some games may not work or may break because Steam Proton is still at a very early stage.
1. Activating Steam Proton for Linux:
Proton is integrated into the Steam Client with "Steam Play." To activate proton, go into your steam client and click on Steam in the upper right corner. Then click on settings to open a new window. From here, click on the Steam Play button at the bottom of the panel. Click "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles."
Alternatively: Go to Steam > Settings > Steam Play and turn on the "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" option.
Valve has tested and fixed some Steam titles and you will now be able to play most of them. However, if you want to go further and play titles that even Valve hasn't tested, toggle the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" option.
2. Choose a version
You should use the Steam Proton version recommended by Steam: 3.7-8. This is the most stable version of Steam Proton at the moment.
3. Restart your Steam
After you have successfully activated Steam Proton, click "OK" and Steam will ask you to restart it for the changes to take effect. Restart it. Your computer will now play all of steam's whitelisted games seamlessly.
4. Launch Stardew Valley on Linux:
Before you can use Steam Proton, you must first download the Stardew Valley Windows game from Steam. When you download Stardew Valley for the first time, you will notice that the download size is slightly larger than the size of the game.
This happens because Steam will download your chosen Steam Proton version with this game as well. After the download is complete, simply click the "Play" button.
Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad is a visual novel about politics, love, and the cost of historical choices in an alternate world. You are a student drawn into events that will soon erupt into civil war. Here, ideologies are not just words—they define people’s fates. Every decision leaves a mark.
Ardengrad. University lecture halls, kitchen-table conversations, student rallies.
And then — elections, repression, the country torn apart, and civil war.
Yura is a student at Ardengrad National University, used to keeping his distance. By chance, he ends up joining a political science club, where arguments about the country’s future at first seem like just another part of university life. But politics soon spills beyond the classroom walls. The city fills with fear, violence, and street clashes. Friends find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict, and closeness to other people becomes not a comfort, but a risk.
In the political science club, Yura meets four young women, each responding in her own way to the collapse of a shared world. They will become his allies, his rivals, his friends… or something more. But in Ardengrad, personal choice cannot be separated from politics, and feelings offer no protection from consequences.
Katya — faith in collective struggle and historical justice.

Anya — caution, intelligence, and distrust of grand slogans.

Nadya — the will to survive in a world that does not forgive weakness.

Masha — torn between duty, faith, family, and her own conscience.

What begins as a story of student life and debates about the country’s future gradually turns into a chronicle of collapse, loss, and decisions after which there is no return to the life that came before.
A branching story with multiple routes and endings
A political and human drama where beliefs are tested not by words, but by actions
Romantic storylines in which intimacy becomes both support and vulnerability
A journey from everyday life to catastrophe: from conversations and student circles to protests, repression, and war
Difficult choices with no easy answers
An alternative world with deep lore, whose history and inner contradictions shape the fate of its characters
Who will you be when history stops talking and opens fire?