I’ll be honest, I don’t know much about gaming but this person was able to fix a similar issue by running the command steam-runtime --reset in the terminal. Steam crashing - #24 by RodneyCK
From what I have heard this game is famously difficult to run.
Again, not my area of expertise but the 5.17 kernel is carrying a bunch of general gaming-related improvements (I think a lot of them are getting pushed to support a strong Steam Deck launch). I have heard it mentioned getting this game up will be easier on 5.17.
Read through the comments and see if you can learn more about the specific details of their setup–what hardware they are using, or if they have any special configuration that enabled them to play the game.