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What i can only imagine is some sort of video player error

My guess is, your system is missing a video codec, probably a gstreamer plugin like libav (I don’t know what its called on Bazzite, something like gst-plugin-libav or gst-libav …).

If you would start the game from console or find the steam log file you should see a error message. (I’m not at home now and rarely use steam, so I can’t look it up now).

Edit: added “/s” at 15 downvotes. Let’s see if we can turn these numbers around. /s

You didn’t self censor your obvious humor??? You’re on social media! 🤨

Does Gentoo have something special that other distros do not?

Isn’t there a Gentoo installer like with Arch?

Nope. That’s the “something special”. You do it manually with the help of a very well written handbook and learn a great deal about how an os works. IMO a great experience.