Unfortunately, at work we use a bunch of Finite element modelling software and all of them have that type of licence.

I’ve recently switched to kubuntu and one of the games that didn’t work well was vermintide 2. Curiously, their next game, darktide, works fine :V

No, it is just a launch parameter on the .exe file

It works in steam for certain, maybe it will work as a launch parameter on the .exe. Just add it at the end of Target in the shortcut properties, so it should look like this:

"game_location\bin\bg3.exe" --skip-launcher