This is amazing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart @Kweepa for creating this wonderful piece of preserved and modernised gaming-history!
I'm currently playing it on Linux with wine and like to share the steps on how to run it for others who might be on the lookout for a guide on that:
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1. Unzip the Game
- Create a new folder, best without spaces such as:
mkdir -p "$HOME/Games/UnityUnderground"
- Unzip the contents of the folder. At the time of the writing of this guide, the current version on itch.io is UUBuild2May2026.zip .
2. Create your own Wine-Prefix
export UUPREFIX="$HOME/Games/prefixes/unity-underground" mkdir -p "$UUPREFIX" WINEPREFIX="$UUPREFIX" WINEARCH=win64 wineboot -u
3. Running the Game
- Navigate to the folder containing the .exe, e.g.:
cd "$HOME/Games/UnityUnderground"
- and then put in:
WINEPREFIX="$UUPREFIX" wine "./UnityUnderground.exe" &> "$HOME/unity-underground.log"
4. Optional: Create Desktop Shortcut
- In a Terminal put in:
nano "$HOME/Desktop/UnityUnderground.desktop" Then paste this, adapt to your home-path ( replace xxxx with your user name): [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Unity Underground Comment=Startet Unity Underground über Wine Exec=env WINEPREFIX=/home/xxxx/Games/prefixes/unity-underground wine "/home/xxxx/Games/UnityUnderground/UnityUnderground.exe" Path=/home/xxxx/Games/UnityUnderground Icon=wine Terminal=false Categories=Game; StartupNotify=true
- Save the file with Ctrl + O
- Enter
- Ctrl + X to close Editor.
- You then may have to allow executing by putting in:
chmod +x "$HOME/Desktop/UnityUnderground.desktop"
- And, depending on your distro:
Right click on your Desktop Shortcut -> Allow Start