Hello,
I bought Sheltered today and I wanted to try it immediately on my Debian Linux distro, where I play to other GOG (and Steam) games without any problem.

I ran the installer in the shell and it showed me 3 different warnings. I installed the game anyway and tried to launch it with both just "./start.sh" and "optirun ./start.sh", but it didn't start, it outputted this and then the process just terminated:

##### Output starts #####

Running Sheltered
Set current directory to /home/MYUSERNAME/GOG Games/Sheltered/game
Found path: /home/MYUSERNAME/GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered.x86_64
Mono path[0] = '/home/MYUSERNAME/GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered_Data/Managed'
Mono path[1] = '/home/MYUSERNAME/GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered_Data/Mono'
Mono config path = '/home/MYUSERNAME/GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered_Data/Mono/etc'
displaymanager : xrandr version warning. 1.5
displaymanager : trying .X11-unix
client :0 has 1 screens
displaymanager screen (0): 1920 x 1080
Using libudev for joystick management


Importing game controller configs

##### Output ends #####

So I uninstalled the game, then solved the 3 installer warnings by:
1. installing the gtk2-engines-murrine and libatk-adaptor packages;
2. adding en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen and launching "locale-gen".
Then I launched the installer prefixing LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" and didn't receive any warning.

The result however didn't change: same problem written above. Even launching the game prefixing LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" doesn't work.
I also tried to install the "mono-runtime" package, but nothing changed.

Am I missing something? Where do I find an error log? What libraries and/or packages must be installed for the game to run?
Do you need any more info to help me troubleshoot the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Wish I could help but even after all this time, the game wont run on my Linux Mint 20 install either. All I get is a black window. Maybe it needs a dependancy but I don't have a clue. :(

Hi

I’ve managed to get it working .. stopped playing it and came back tot he same issue one year later after a new install/upgrade.

So i had to go through the whole process again with trial and error. I’m currently running lInux mint 21 (i was running on linux mint 20 previously and it worked)

Ii got a black screen with sound . The window size is HUGE if you are to view it. Probably a glitch/issue with the 64 bit version.


I remember having issues with CPU overloading.. so I had to limit it to one CPU. Plus I discovered that the X86 version fares better than the x64 bit one (beats me why!)

I’ll assume you’re running a Debian based distro

First install the i386 libraries (they will take maybe 1 GB of disk space…​)

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install libc6:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-data:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386
sudo apt install ia32-libs

Also the libGL is required

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386

Then go to your Sheltered folder (wher it;s installed) and run the 32 bit version

cd ./Sheltered/Sheltered
./Sheltered.x86

This appears to be quite it…​ It should manage to work and you’ll get

I believe I've found the root cause of the problem and the solution!

It's an issue with the Galaxy-related plugins. The issue results in crashes on startup and sometimes with two long black screens (with music) before reaching the title screen.

The solution is to delete the following files (or just rename the extensions):

GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered_Data/Plugins/x86/libGalaxy.so
GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered_Data/Plugins/x86/libGalaxyCSharpGlue.so
GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered_Data/Plugins/x86/libGalaxyPeer.so
GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered_Data/Plugins/x86_64/libGalaxy64.so
GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered_Data/Plugins/x86_64/libGalaxyCSharpGlue.so
GOG Games/Sheltered/game/Sheltered_Data/Plugins/x86_64/libGalaxyPeer64.so

Now it should immediately boot to the title screen and also properly exit. None of the other solutions mentioned in this thread should be needed.

Also, the 64-bit version seems to run fine as long as you use the switch to start in fullscreen mode (otherwise you'll get a REALLY long title bar and no display). To start in fullscreen, right-click the Sheltered shortcut, click Properties, and in the Command box add this in between the quotes at the end:
-screen-fullscreen 1

So, the "Command" section of the shortcut properties should look something like this:
"/home/(accountname)/GOG Games/Sheltered/start.sh" "-screen-fullscreen 1"

You can optionally specify the resolution, but this only seems to work in windowed mode:
-screen-width 1280 -screen-height 960

I hope this helps someone. It runs flawlessly in Linux Mint 22 now.