How to Optimize 'Fall Guys' on Linux (So You Can Join a Party)

If you've ever tried to play Fall Guys connected Linux, there's a bully accidental you've tally into issues. I did, and I learned getting the crippled to a playable authorities takes aggregate levels of configuration. I'll outline them present truthful you tin get close into immoderate conflict royale action.

I had to spell done this process due to the fact that immoderate friends of excavation wanted to play Fall Guys, but extracurricular of consoles it's lone disposable for Windows. I could power implicit to Windows, but I similar utilizing Linux connected my PC whenever possible. I'm utilized to moving games with Proton, but it turns retired playing Fall Guys takes immoderate peculiar configuration, particularly erstwhile you privation to articulation a party. I work aggregate guides and forum posts to fig retired each of this, and I decided to compile the process into 1 nonfiction present for anyone other who needs to travel successful my steps.

Step 1: Get Heroic Games Launcher

The archetypal measurement is to get Epic Games connected your Linux PC. There are aggregate ways you tin bash this, but I similar Heroic Games Launcher. Bottles, Lutris, and Legendary are each excessively hard oregon opaque for my comfortableness level, particularly erstwhile I conscionable privation to hop connected a crippled with immoderate friends. You tin effort 1 of those different methods, but I can't accidental however casual it'll beryllium to travel along, particularly if you privation to alteration the EOS overlay.

On immoderate Linux distribution, you tin get the Heroic Games Launcher AppImage from the Heroic download page. Alternatively, you tin instal it arsenic a Flatpak:

flatpak instal flathub com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl

I got it connected Garuda Linux via the Arch User Repository by installing this package:

sudo pacman -S heroic-games-launcher-bin

If nary of those options enactment for you, determination are much ways you tin get Heroic described connected the Heroic Github page.

After installing and launching Heroic, travel the prompts to log into your Epic Games account. You'll past beryllium presented with your crippled room wherever you tin instal Fall Guys.

Don't interest astir the anticheat warnings. Fall Guys' anticheat bundle volition enactment connected Linux truthful agelong arsenic you person the close mentation of Proton intstalled.

Step 2: Download the Right Version of Proton

Of people to play a Windows-exclusive crippled you're going to request a compatibility layer. Heroic lets you instal 1 with ease, letting you take betwixt Glorious Eggroll's versions of Wine and Proton. In my case, Fall Guys wouldn't motorboat with WINE-GE, but it did with GE-Proton. Specifically, it was mentation 9-27 of GE-Proton, though by the clip you work this determination whitethorn beryllium a newer mentation disposable that works better.

In Heroic Games Launcher's left-hand navigation menu, click "Wine Manager."

Make definite you person astatine slightest 1 mentation of GE-Proton installed. If you aren't definite which to pick, spell with the latest version.

It's imaginable you'll extremity up needing a antithetic mentation of GE-Proton, but we'll get backmost to that aft configuring everything else.

Step 3: Install the EOS Overlay

This measurement is important if you privation to beryllium capable to articulation a enactment successful Fall Guys oregon bash thing other that relies connected the EOS (Epic Online Services) overlay. This volition get you the societal overlay, which lets you spot your online friends you've connected with successful Epic Games before. You tin invitation them oregon judge invites. It besides integrates straight with Fall Guys truthful you tin articulation and permission parties in-game arsenic well.

If you don't attraction astir partying up, you tin skip this step, and the crippled volition beryllium playable solo without it.

In Heroic Games Launcher's broadside menu, spell to Settings > Advanced. Look for the EOS Overlay conception and click "Install."

Wait for it to decorativeness installing, past it'll beryllium clip to determination connected to configuration.

Step 4: Get Fall Guys Properly Configured

Head backmost to Fall Guys successful your crippled room and hover implicit the three-dot icon astatine the top-right country of the motorboat page. In the dropdown paper that appears, click "Enable EOS Overlay."

Next, click Fall Guys' settings icon (three lines with dots successful them). In the "Wine" tab, marque definite your Wine Version is acceptable to the mentation of GE-Proton you conscionable installed.

Settings are saved automatically, truthful adjacent the settings paper and spell backmost to the Fall Guys motorboat page.

Step 5: Profit

You're present acceptable to play Fall Guys. You tin bring up the societal overlay to invitation friends to your enactment oregon judge an invitation by hitting Shift+F3.

Like I said before, there's a accidental you'll person to experimentation with Proton. If the crippled doesn't launch, oregon you acquisition different weird problems, effort installing a antithetic mentation of GE-Proton. You mightiness besides cheque retired the Fall Guys ProtonDB page for the latest recommended tweaks and proposal from radical playing it.