A game I’m not seeing mentioned here but for me it’s one of the top games is Ark. I have so many… Ok, it seems I HAD so many glamour shots of the world as I played it. HD death has lost me a bunch of largely meaningless micro-memories. Well, I still have the memories, but it makes it harder to share them. Here have this one:
Thanks to all who commented. You all helped. The problem was not listed here, but you helped me to find it. The issue is this: https://superuser.com/questions/1561076/systemctl-user-failed-to-connect-to-bus-no-such-file-or-directory-debian-9
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR must be set.
Once I configured my user with that env to be the correct location things started to fall into place.