Hyper Light Drifter, the despised Epic Store, and GNU
I'm a sucker for free games, and it's interesting that so many stores offer so many free games that one can almost get by these days without actually purchasing any games. A huge number of these free games are being offered by Epic's store, which has gotten a bad rap since its inception for trying to lure a lot of big name games away from the more accepted Steam, but I don't mind so much; it's fair competition, honestly. But people are going to gripe and complain and hate about anything these days, so what can you do.
The latest giveaways as of this writing are Hyper Light Drifter and Mutant Year Zero, and while I really don't have much interest in Mutant Year Zero, I've always wanted to give Hyper Light Drifter a try. But, of course, given I'm using GNU and not Windows, I have ran into an actual problem with Epic Store: it's not for GNU. And trying to install with just Wine completely failed.
Fortunately, Lutris has a solution — its install script for Epic Games Store worked nearly flawlessly (given I haven an older system that does not support Vulkan, it warned me that I may encounter problems not having it, and had to disable Vulkan in the Lutris settings for the Epic Games Store launcher to get it running), and installing and running Hyper Light Drifter just worked as well. Neat.
Of course, I'm an evil, terrible person for running non-Free software, I'm an evil, terrible person for daring to install Epic Games Store, and I'm an evil, terrible person for daring to poison GNU with such evil, terrible things. But to heck with that, I want to play games, and if I can in any way, I will. So there.