Chromebooks ares google version of a tablet. Except they suck worse as you dont get much in the way of using anything besides google apps. So unless a user knows how to side load a different OS, it is rather useless beyond letting grandma surf the web.

From the context I assume by "GOG screen" you mean your library on the website? If you installed the .sh file the game should be already visible among applications in your system. I have no idea how Chrome OS handles this things, does it have "start menu" equivalent? If not then script to run the game is "start.sh" in the installation folder (by default /home/GOG Games).

The .sh file is the Linux version of the installer. You have downloaded it with your web browser, not installed it.

I am not familiar with Chromebooks, but IF it works like PC Linux, then you would have to:

1. Open a terminal window (ie. command prompt, where you can type commands)

2. Not sure if needed, but maybe change to admin user (you can first try the rest without this step):
sudo su -

3. Go to the directory where you downloaded the installer, e.g.
cd /home/375Worth/Downloads/ (replace "375Worth" with your ChromeBook username)

4. Make that .sh file executable, as most probably it is not executable after downloading it to your Chromebook:
chmod +x thefile.sh (replace "thefile.sh" with the actual name of the .sh file).

5. Run the installer:
./thefile.sh

Anyway, I don't have high hopes the game will run on your Chromebook, even it it had a x86 CPU. The game requirements state OS as either Windows, Ubuntu Linux or MacOS X, and ChromeBook doesn't run any of those.

Also, the game states it requires graphics processor "nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB" (or better), which your ChromeBook most probably doesn't have either.

So, yeah, you bought the game for a wrong system. Your ChromeBook is probably not fit to play so called "PC games" (either Windows or Linux versions of x86-compatible games), it is probably meant to play Android games downloaded from Google Play Store only. So yeah, get a refund.

Also what you said about the game not warning you about being incompatible with your system while you downloaded it, it was just a normal web browser file download. Your Chromebook or the web browser does not have any way to check whether the file you are downloading is somehow "compatible" with your Chromebook. It is just a file.

If you tried to execute that file on your Chromebook, THEN you would quite fast know whether the installer is even supposed to run on your Chromebook. (I presume it is not supposed to work there, or at least it is not supported.)

GOG however does warn you about OS incompatibilities when buying a game...if I buy a Windows game (for running in Wine), GOG says that it's not compatible because I'm running a browser on macOS. Either the OP overlooked the warning, or possibly there is none because ChromeOS is based on Linux and might present as a Linux system? (Since the game in question does have a Linux version.)

Yeah I thought probably the latter happened because the user ended up downloading the Linux version... The GOG page probably recognized Chromebook as a Linux computer.

Heck why don't I test it with my Android phone right away, what does GOG say if I try to download some game which has also a Linux version?

EDIT: Yep I tried it with my Android tablet (Samsung), and GOG offered me the Linux version of Amnesia: Rebirth as the default version to download. So it does seem like Android reports itself as being "Linux" to websites, or that is at least how GOG recognizes it.

Yes... In theory.

Chromebook is just a cheaply built laptop. You can't install windows easily on it though.. Wish i saw this a few hours ago. ChromeOS may accept APK files, depending on support. But otherwise by default it only does the Chrome browser, even if you sideload an APK.

As for the linux game, you may have to install Crouton. Crouton is basically a full linux OS which it runs on top of the ChromeOS, by filling in the files missing and using the current kernel and drivers.

1) It needs to be admin/superuser/dev mode. If not and you still want to do this, make sure you back up any relevant data.

2) Change your root/chronos password (needed to do sudo)

3) Download installer script, which will install the OS. Even allow you to encrypt your added filesystem for safety.

4) run crouton, via sudo startxfce4 or similar command depending on desktop configuration. Poof becomes a full linux sys until you log out back to ChromeOS.

5) Run the installer .sh file and hope it works.

Congratulations, you bought a Chromebook.

To my vaguest understanding, Chromebooks run a nailed down version of Gentoo which depending on your device is practically impossible to trivial to access the Linux side of. Though as others have mentioned, if it's running Arm, you're basically screwed outside of Dosbox.

Point is: It is a fool's errand to game on a Chromebook.

True, ARM would certainly limit running anything GoG on it at least. Crouton may still work...

I use a chromebook all the time, although not for gaming usually. More programming, replying to forums, watching anime, and reading manga.

There's a lot of issues, such as a lack of access to files. You wanna move a file or fix a configuration file? Not really happening without some pulled teeth.

Well getting dev/admin access isn't too difficult, and if you flash the BIOS you can put a full linux distro on it like i have. But crouton would certainly make it usable without going through all that.

Wish i could root my phone though...


375Worth, if you want to chat and i can step you through the process we can, but you have to lighten up your conversation settings.