I've been thinking about playing Unreal Tournament (1999) lately. I've been on a little bit of a old-school shooter kick lately. I owned it on CD-Rom back in the day, but apparently at some point in the past 20 years I also got the Game of the Year edition on Steam.

So, to my surprise, in December 2022 Epic Games delisted the entire Unreal Tournament series from digital storefronts. You can still install it if you own it on Steam, however you can no longer purchase it https://store.steampowered.com/app/13240/Unreal_Tournament_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/. I don't understand why they would want to remove art (yes, videogames are art, I will die on this hill) from society, so fuck them.

Anyways, the UT community has made sure the games are still playable. There are unofficial patches to make it more playable on modern systems.

The route I took was install via Steam and install the Windows patch from https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches and play with GE-Proton 10-9.

It plays great on Debian 13 (Trixie)!

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