Rpg Maker Developers Group

[If you're wanting to run the actual RPG Maker engine (Steam version) on Linux, refer to this guide. The page you're on now tells you how to run the .exe of the game itself.

This is a general guide for running Windows apps on Linux. Thus, if you have the non-Steam version of the RPG Maker engine, this guide should allow you to run it.]

If you're wanting to run a game made with RPG Maker on Linux, this is the guide for you. MV and onward have a native Linux export version, but the previous makers do not.

Step 1: Install Wine​

Go to https://wiki.winehq.org/Download and, under WineHQ binary packages, select your operating system. I'll attach the instructions here.
During the installation you may get a complaint about missing dependencies. If so, install them.

Step 2: Run RM Game​

Navigate to the folder in which you downloaded the RPG Maker game and right-click anywhere on the file explorer main window, then select "Open in Terminal." Type assuming that the .exe is entitled "Game", as it should be.

Alternatively, if you want to specify the full filepath name, you can open the terminal and type or wherever the file is stored, then type the wine game.exe command. Or, you could use wine start to specify the full path, like so: and type /unix directly after wine start if using a Unix style pathname.

Or graphically, you should be able to right-click on the .exe for your RPG Maker game and select the option to run the game with Wine. If you don't see it, click "Open with other application..." and select Wine.

You might see a prompt asking you to download Gecko and Mono; choose "Yes" for both, and the game should work fine.

As this is a compatibility layer, you will most likely encounter issues, but that should be understandable. I've noticed from personal experience that the older the engine in which the game was made, the better it typically runs. Rm2k(3) runs excellently on Wine, while XP and onward not nearly so well.