Written by ArcadeDeck
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.
A single-player roguelike deck-builder set in a fallen kingdom. Draft cards, chain elemental resonances, fight through procedural maps of battles, shrines, and bosses. Spend Ash at the Forge for permanent upgrades. Eight heroes, brutal Ascension tiers.
The night the kingdom fell, you alone survived. From the ashes of a broken throne, forge a deck, master the elements, and march back into the dark to face the Lord of Shadows.
**Kingdom of Ashes** is a single-player roguelike deck-builder where every run is a desperate climb through a procedurally woven map of battles, elites, shrines, mysteries, and bosses. Draft cards, stack relics, chain resonances, and bend each encounter to your will — or be unmade by it.
### Key Features
- **Roguelike Deck-Building** — Start with a fragile hand, end with a tuned engine. Every battle adds, upgrades, or culls cards. No two decks are alike.
- **Eight Fallen Heroes** — Unlock a roster of survivors, each with a unique starting deck, signature mechanic, and trait perks that evolve through Mastery levels.
- **Elemental Resonance** — Play three cards of the same element in a single turn to trigger Resonance. Diversify with the Runecaster's Rune Chain to unlock escalating bonuses across 3, 4, 5, and 6 unique elements.
- **Procedural Run Maps** — Branching paths across 12 rows, with rare map variants like Diamond, Twin Spire, Crossroads, Skull Alley, and River. Choose your route: safe grind or high-risk gauntlet.
- **Living Encounter Nodes** — Battles, Elites, Bosses, Shops, Rests, Treasures, Shrines, Mysteries, Echoes, Mimics, and Gauntlets each twist a run in different directions.
- **Persistent Meta-Progression** — Earn Ash from every run. Spend it at the Forge to permanently upgrade your arsenal, unlock new heroes, and stockpile advantages for the next descent.
- **Ascension Tiers** — Beat the game, then climb harder. Each Ascension layer reshapes encounters, enemies, and economy for veterans hungry for pain.
- **Relic Codex** — Discover and catalog dozens of relics, each with stacking interactions that reward clever deck synergy.
- **Localized in 10 Languages** — English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese.
### Built for One More Run
Tight runs. Hand-tuned encounters. A soundtrack of ember and ruin. Lose, learn, forge, return. The kingdom is ash — but the crown is still down there, waiting.