I use Manjaro Linux, and launch VotV with Lutris using the default Wine version, wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 and it works quite well, although to get the TV to work, under System Options/Enviroment variables I did have to add WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER and set it's value to 1. Should you feel the need to cut Steam out of the equation.