Littlewitch Romanesque: Editio Regia (349300)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Littlewitch Romanesque: Editio Regia
• Steam AppID of the game: 349300

System Information

• GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070
• Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia Driver 515.48.07
• Kernel version: 5.10.117-gentoo
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/sifiro/a14a735f8cdaf6ba493a6a5ec990e2e8
• Proton version: 7.0

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

The game deletes dots from directorypath when It tries to load files.
For example, when It tries to read "$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Littlewitch Romanesque Editio Regia/K49.dat", try to read "$HOME/local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Littlewitch Romanesque Editio Regia/K49.dat" and of course. that directory doesn't exist or If it exists probably doesn't have the files expected by the game (but if you make a symbolic link to .local to local o try to move the game files to that directory)

A Workaround, It could be make a symbolic link from $HOME/.local to $HOME/local.

But It could be appreciated an out-of-the-box solution (especially for SteamDeck) as for example some kind of virtual folder only recognized by Proton (or maybe make a symbolic link from .local/steam to drive_c/Program Files/Steam and run from there.)

(Of Course, It's read from Z:\home\$USER, I am just simplifying the directory)

I attached the info file generated by the game which shows from where reads the files.
Info.txt
I highlight this section:

Module          : Z:\home\sifiro\local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\Littlewitch Romanesque Editio Regia\UserData\
Current         : Z:\home\sifiro\local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\Littlewitch Romanesque Editio Regia\UserData\

Reproduction

• Just run the game.

Start by reproducing the game under Proton 7.0 and review the attached Info.txt, especially the reported Z:\home\sifiro\local path versus the expected .local path. The issue is done when the game loads its files from the correct .local directory without requiring a symbolic-link workaround.