Playing Steam Game for Windows on NIxOS

README.md

Using Steam under Wine

1. Install wine.
2. Run winecfg and select the right version of windows.
3. Download Steam for Windows.
4. Run wine SteamInstaller.exe
5. Refer to this thread to change configuration for steam so it can download your library content as Windows: * https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2381701715716658433/ * In particular: https://www.reddit.com/r/wine_gaming/comments/8r0gh6/steam_in_winedevel_content_servers_unreachable/e0riqd9
6. Run steam with wine ~/.wine/c_drive/..../Steam.exe.
7. Login/download game from library and play it.

Using SteamCMD to get binary:

1. Install wine and steam-run.
2. Install steamcmd by running the curl/unzip command in a folder, as described at https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD
3. cd into the directory with steamcmd.sh and use steam-run ./steamcmd.sh (NixOS/nixpkgs#23719)