I purchased Starcrawlers this morning, installation went fine, however when I start the game and click New Game, I get a completely black screen and nothing else. There is no music on the menu either.

I have checked through the forum in regards to this issue but there isn't much around.

When I start the game via terminal using ./start.sh I get this:

Preloaded 'ScreenSelector.so'
Preloaded 'libCSteamworks.so'
Preloaded 'libfmod.so'
Preloaded 'libfmodstudio.so'
Preloaded 'libsteam_api.so'
Unable to preload the following plugins:
ScreenSelector.so
libCSteamworks.so
libfmod.so
libfmodstudio.so
libsteam_api.so
Logging to /home/bunnyhammer/.config/unity3d/Juggernaut Games/StarCrawlers/Player.log
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() failed.
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; unable to locate a running instance of Steam, or a local steamclient.so.

I'm not too sure if I need to download/install anything extra to my system or if it is something else.

Awesome, I shall give this a go and will let you know. :)

Hello again.

Good news, your solution does indeed work, I tested it on my laptop running Manjaro 18 and it eventually started working.

Although, I'm still not too sure how. I followed on what you mentioned with export LANG=C, the game started but no menu showed, just a complete black screen and after (roughly) 5 minutes it closed.

I then ran the script through the terminal again, and it started, music on the menus and everything, so not too sure on what happend the first time, but it decided to work and continually did so afterwards.

As you also mentioned as well in regards to resetting the video settings, you may have to move your mouse under the menu item you want to select to highlight it, the hit boxes go all over the place, but once you reach "Graphics", click "Reset Preferences" and everything should straighten out so to speak.

I can't thank you enough for this, this should hopefully work for all distros as you mentioned as well, it does seem to take its time the first time you run the game with export LANG=C but it does eventually work and will do therefore after, hopefully.

//Edit
Just for an extra test, I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, added export LANG=C to start.sh in the StarCrawlers directory, and it worked again, this time it didn't take anywhere near as long to load again and worked straight away. I looked through the forums and someone else had this issue and offered similar advice, but at the time it didn't work for myself when using Mint, I might of been slightly impatient lol. However, someone else replied that it could be the cache data that is taking its time to load up, so another thing for people to be aware of.

It seems to take a while, but it does indeed pay off eventually, have a look at the script below or copy and paste it over your start.sh for Star Crawlers and it should eventually start correctly.

#!/bin/bash
# GOG.com (www.gog.com)
# StarCrawlers

# Initialization
CURRENT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
cd "${CURRENT_DIR}"
source support/gog_com.shlib

# Game info
GAME_NAME="$(get_gameinfo 1)"
VERSION="$(get_gameinfo 2)"
VERSION_DEV="$(get_gameinfo 3)"

# Actions
run_game() {
export LANG=C
echo "Running ${GAME_NAME}"
local bin32_name="starcrawlers.x86"
local bin64_name="starcrawlers.x86_64"
local bin_path32="$CURRENT_DIR/game"
local bin_path64="$CURRENT_DIR/game"
local lib_path32="$CURRENT_DIR/game"
local lib_path64="$CURRENT_DIR/game"
execute_game "${bin32_name}" "${bin64_name}" "${bin_path32}" "${bin_path64}" "${lib_path32}" "${lib_path64}"
}

default() {
run_game
}

# Options
define_option "-s" "--start" "start ${GAME_NAME} [default]" "run_game" "$@"

# Defaults
standard_options "$@"