https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47129
--- Comment #14 from Paul Gofman gofmanp@gmail.com --- (In reply to BieHDC from comment #13)
This game needs to be started from its directory
indeed, the generated .desktop file launches it fine. i was under the wrong assumption that wine does automatically changes working directories to the executable location.
Neither does Windows, you can get the same crash under Windows if you do the same. It is just less common and I would say harder for users to do the same on Windows, as most of the time they run it from desktop or menu link, or from file manager where it is typically not so easy to run the .exe from another directory.