@alfonz19 You can manually launch winetricks with the correct prefix in that case.

First get the app id with:
protontricks -l | grep Anomaly

Which should return something like:
Non-Steam shortcut: AnomalyDX11AVX.exe (4191746657)

In this case the app id is 4191746657, yours will probably be different

Then launch winetricks with:
WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/4191746657/pfx winetricks

Making sure to replace /home/user/ with your actual home directory and 4191746657 with the app id you got earlier. If you don't know what your home directory is you can get it with:
echo ~

Which should return something like:
/home/username

From there just follow the rest of the guide by going "Select the default wineprefix" -> "Install a Windows DLL or component" and checking the required DLLs

Worked completely fine here, aside from some warnings that winetricks was giving me while installing the DLLs, it worked flawlessly.

Can someone advice what to do — the prototricks fails before selecting the wine prefix:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/protontricks", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(cli())
^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 32, in cli
main(args)
...o_sections(appinfo_path)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 531, in iter_appinfo_sections
raise SyntaxError(
SyntaxError: Invalid file magic number. The appinfo.vdf version might not be supported by the current version of Protontricks - please check for updates.

didn't work initially - that is, until I made sure that I put the Anomaly folder actually somewhere near where Steam places its installed files (in my case, /home/mbalc/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Anomaly-1.5.3-Full.2/bin/ to be exact) - now works flawlessly

Works on Steam Deck running GE-Proton9-22, on Anomaly 1.53. Thanks!

@Donmariano Do you mean vanilla or anomaly? When it comes to vanilla, it works just with protonGE for me. If you mean anomaly then just follow the guide. Or your device isn't good enough (the performance on linux is slightly worse than on windows).

Is there any guide on how to get the game to first work on Linux? I got informed that stalker takes a toaster to run but am on linux and the game lags very bad, its un playable

THANKS!!!!!!!

Thanks for the guide Bleeplo. After a bit of fiddling got things working. Running the radiophobia 3 mod on Manjaro. All I had to add to the guide was a wine32 prefix & what Kawri mentioned. Thanks guys.

Also with proton tricks I ignored the errors about the wrong version of wine. Left it for a short time, more errors, but it continued to install.

Guten Morgen
Thanks a ton for this guide, I was able to run it.
Haven't played it yet but the game ran successfully