Dr. Plague

That did it, thank you!

Tried .fonts as well, and rebooted after both attempts, text still doesn't show up. Does it make a difference that I installed steam from PlayOnLinux? Or should I still just have to put them in the home folder? A friend of mine just mentioned something about turning off dwrite. Is that something I should have to do or does that matter?

So, I'm having an issue, and I'm a new linux user, so if you could bear with me that'd be great. '>_> So, I have ubuntu 13.04 installed, and I know that you can use the version of steam for ubuntu to play this, but I've found that version of the game to actually run more sluggish than running steam through wine, and playing from there. But I have a problem. There's not text in most of the menu boxes, which I see is addressed in the OP, and I've installed the fonts to a .font folder in my user directory, but that didn't solve the problem at all. I've also installed the microsoft core fonts through the terminal, but still the same issue. I hope this isn't the wrong place to post this '>_>. If anyone could help me out, that'd be great. Thanks!