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Sky: Children of the Light

protonopen appid 2325290Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#8040 · opened 2024-08-31 by LividJava · updated 2026-07-21 · 22 comments · github · game page · search this game
LLividJava 2024-08-31 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Sky: Children of the Light
  • Steam AppID of the game: 2325290

System Information

I confirm:

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

steam-2325290.log

Symptoms

  • When opening Text fields (such as chat, names, or other) the screen will blank. You can still type within the text field and send it.
  • When attempting to take a screenshot, the screen with momentarily freeze and not save. The same is true for the in game camera feature.

Reproduction

Screenshots

  1. Open and run Sky.
  2. Go past the title screen.
  3. Attempt to take a Screenshot via Steam.
    3a. Hold Alt and while using the Mouse press the Camera button in the lower right hand corner.

Chat

  1. Open and run Sky.
  2. Go past the title screen
  3. Open a text field. (The easiest is chat. you can open this by pressing Enter while in game.)
SshinyPy 2024-09-10 github

Switching to ProtonGE Fixed this, at the loss ability of screenshots.

LLividJava 2024-09-14 github

Seems like Screenshot bug is present on Windows. So it's a game bug misidentified as a Proton issue. just didn't know at the time.

NNovantric 2024-11-17 github

Running under wayland with Nvidia drivers causes black screens past the title. Switching to X11 fixes the issue.
I don't have the know-how to know what's up. Is this Proton or Xwayland?

SshinyPy 2024-11-18 github

Got the same problem with wayland now, previously it was fine.

Hhackcr1258 2024-11-23 github

nVidia card holder here, can confirm this issue is still persistent in Wayland protocols

RReonu 2024-12-02 github

Game is broken on Nvidia Wayland at the moment. Confirmed on both an RTX 2070 laptop and an RTX 4070Ti Super desktop. Goes into a black screen and the game can't be played.

NNovantric 2024-12-10 github

Temporary Fix: Open an XOrg session and set the game to windowed. I found this out by accident and now I can play under Wayland!

Hhackcr1258 2024-12-11 github

Temporary Fix: Open an XOrg session and set the game to windowed. I found this out by accident and now I can play under Wayland!

Did you try opening chat?
The main purpose of this thread is to pin that chat and camera causes a blackscreen until you close it.

NNovantric 2024-12-18 github

Chat and text input fields still blackscreen, but it still works.

Yyemouu 2025-04-02 github

Using Proton 8 seems to be a work around for the black screen when opening the chat and input fields. I am experiencing a another issue though, for all text in the game, the text's mesh is visible:

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It is also visible on the spirits:
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I've seen this issue reported on protondb as well and we are both using Intel Arc cards so this is likely an issue specific to Intel.

Edit: This issue has been reported upstream to mesa.

NNovantric 2025-04-03 github

Can confirm using Proton-GE 8 fixes the text issue and doesn't give me the above issues, but fullscreen still doesn't work and it seems more prone to crashes.

NNovantric 2025-04-17 github

Fullscreen works as of 570 stable

Aalasky17 2025-05-02 github

@yemouu @Novantric Could you please retest on Proton 10 beta? I am hoping that both the black screen with chat/input fields and the visible text mesh are fixed with Proton 10 - please let me know if you can still reproduce either issue :)

NNovantric 2025-05-02 github

The text issue seems to be fixed @alasky17 ! The only other immediate issue is this border when not in fullscreen.
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Yyemouu 2025-05-02 github

No longer experiencing the black screen when opening text chat but I am still seeing the text meshes.
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Yyemouu 2025-05-22 github

The issue I was describing seems to have been fixed in mesa with this branch

LLividJava 2025-06-11 github

@kisak-valve Game is listed as Verified on Steam, Label change?

Ssimifor 2025-06-11 github

@LividJava what isn't working on deck?

LLividJava 2025-06-13 github

I'm not on Deck, I'm on a full arch linux system. I'm using SwayFX on Wayland and am still encountering issues with Text Input, basically a white box appears (though this might be an IME but it's present even with FCITX closed) in the center of the screen.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/01cc8a0f-dd0f-4969-8d17-c3a7df024cd7

JJustCryen 2026-07-21 github

Hi, I have an issue with keyboard layout within the game.
It seems to be set to English, I might have the system language and the game language set to English but I have a different keyboard layout set in the system itself.
I'm not sure if this issue is strictly related to Proton or not, but I would love to get my actual keyboard layout working... chatting with friends is a little bit too troublesome.

I tried setting locales and disabling iBus using environment variables in game's Launch Options but I haven't been able to fix it yet.

Aalasky17 2026-07-21 github

@JustCryen I have a couple of suggestions -

  1. Make sure that your preferred keyboard layout is the very top one in the list in your OS system settings, not just selected at the time.
  2. Depending on what language you are trying to use - if you are trying to set locale, please try HOST_LC_ALL=[your locale] %command% in the launch options for the game. This is the recommended locale environment variable to set manually for Proton.
JJustCryen 2026-07-21 github

@alasky17

  1. It is my only keyboard layout
  2. Yes, thank you! That one works!
    I ended up using HOST_LANG=[your locale] HOST_LC_ALL=[your locale] %command%

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