How to play Totally Accurate Battle Simulator on Linux
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is a sandbox-style video game that allows players to pit two armies (fictional and non-fictional) against each other to see who comes out on top. Here’s how to play it on Linux.
Getting Totally Accurate Battle Simulator working on Linux
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is not a Linux-native video game. Thankfully, the Linux Steam app comes with Proton, which allows the game to run. You’ll have to install the Steam client to use TABS with Proton.
To install the Linux Steam client, you must open up a terminal window. You can open up a terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T on the keyboard or searching for “Terminal” in the app menu.
Ubuntu
To install the Steam app on Ubuntu, you must use the apt install command below.
sudo apt install steam
Debian
To install Steam on Debian, start downloading the following Steam DEB package to your computer using the wget command.
wget https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steam.deb
Once the Steam DEB package is downloaded to your Linux PC, you can install it on your computer using the following dpkg command.
sudo dpkg -i steam.deb
After installing the Steam app to your computer, you must correct any dependency errors during the installation process. You can fix these errors with the apt-get install -f command.
Arch Linux
To install the Steam app on Arch Linux, you’ll need to enable the “multilib” software repository. To do that, open up /etc/pacman.conf in a text editor (as root).
Once in the file, locate “multilib” and remove the # symbol. Be sure also to remove the # symbol from the lines directly below. Save when done, and run the pacman -Syy command.
sudo pacman -Syy
Finally, install Steam with the pacman -S command.
sudo pacman -S steam
Fedora/OpenSUSE
If you use Fedora Linux or OpenSUSE Linux, the Steam app is available for installation in the software repositories that come with the operating system. However, we suggest installing the Flatpak release of Steam, as it tends to work better on OpenSUSE/Fedora.
Flatpak
Steam is available as a Flatpak. To install it, you’ll need to set up the Flatpak runtime on your Linux PC. You can install the runtime by following our guide on the installation process.
After setting up the Flatpak runtime on your computer, you’ll be able to install the latest Steam version on your Linux PC with the two Flatpak commands below.
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam
After installing the Steam app, launch it and log into your account. Once logged in, follow the step-by-step instructions below to get Totally Accurate Battle Simulator working on Linux.
Step 1: Open the Steam app and select the “Settings” menu. Inside the “Settings” area, find the “Steam Play” section, and click on it with the mouse. Once you’ve selected the “Steam Play” button, check both the “Enable Steam Play for supported titles” box and the “Enable Steam Play for all other titles” box.
Step 2: After enabling the Steam Play feature in the Steam app, click on the “OK” button to close the settings area. Then, select the “Store” button to load up the Steam store.
On the Steam store, find the search box and click on it with the mouse. Then, type in “Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.” Finally, press the Enter key to view the search results.
Step 3: Look through the Steam search results for “Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.” Once you’ve located the game in the search results, select it with the mouse to load up the “Totally Accurate Battle Simulator” Steam store page.
Step 4: On the Totally Accurate Battle Simulator Steam store page, locate the green “Add to cart” button. Select the “Add to cart” button with the mouse to add Totally Accurate Battle Simulator to your Steam cart.
Once the game is in your Steam cart, click on the cart icon to purchase the game. When purchased, TABS will be added to your Steam games collection via the “Library” area of the app.
Step 5: Find the “Library” button and select it with the mouse to access your Steam games library. Then, find the search box. Click on the search box and type “Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.”
Look through your games library search results for “Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.” Once you’ve located the game, find the blue “INSTALL” button and select it to download and install Totally Accurate Battle Simulator to your computer.
Step 6: When the Totally Accurate Battle Simulator game is installed, the blue “INSTALL” button will become a green “PLAY” button. To start up the game on your Linux computer, select the green “PLAY” button with the mouse.
