New Install, Dragon's Dogma 2 won't start. Wine failed to open steam.exe

I just recently installed Bazzite and am testing out my Steam games. I am able to run Diablo IV, Pacific Drive, Blue Prince and even Star Wars Outlaws with the Ubisoft launcher without issues, but when I start Dragon’s Dogma 2, it crashes at startup.

I turned on the proton logs and I see this as the last two lines:

wine: failed to open "c:\\windows\\system32\\steam.exe": c0000135
pid 81970 != 81969, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

This seems less like a game-specific issue and something more Steam- / Wine-related, so I’m not (necessarily) trying to solve a problem with DD2 specifically, but wanted to make sure I am not missing something simple for a new install.

I’ve tried with no compatibility setting, with Proton Experimental and with GE-Proton9-27 all with the same result. Also verified the install files and still the same result.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thx!