Offworld Trading Company crash on lauch (271240)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Offworld Trading Company
• Steam AppID of the game: 271240

System Information

• GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050
• Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 390.87 (same result with 410.57)
• Kernel version: 4.17.18
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/StraToN/21edf972e430eaf8c8dae8a48a8bde4f
• Proton version: 3.16-3 beta

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.

I actually found both.

• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

The game crashes after clicking the "Play" button of the game launcher with the following popup.

Game output log :
2018-10-20_160926.zip

Steam client log : steam_client.log

PROTON_LOG=1 log file :
steam-271240.log

Reproduction

Run the game from steam and click play in the launcher

Start by reproducing the crash from Steam with Offworld Trading Company (AppID 271240), then inspect the attached game output, Steam client log, and PROTON_LOG=1 file. Done means identifying and resolving the launch failure so the game starts past its launcher.