corsix-th crashes at start up

$ corsix-th

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An error has occurred in CorsixTH:
/usr/share/games/corsix-th/Lua/strict.lua:66: module 'lpeg' not found:
        no field package.preload['lpeg']
        no file '/usr/share/games/corsix-th/Lua/lpeg.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/games/corsix-th/Lua/lpeg/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.4/lpeg.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.4/lpeg/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/lpeg.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/lpeg/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.4/lpeg.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.4/lpeg/init.lua'
        no file './lpeg.lua'
        no file './lpeg/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/games/corsix-th/lpeg.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/lpeg.so'
        no file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.4/lpeg.so'
        no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.4/lpeg.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/loadall.so'
        no file './lpeg.so'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in upvalue 'fn'
        /usr/share/games/corsix-th/Lua/strict.lua:66: in function 'require'
        /usr/share/games/corsix-th/Lua/string_extensions.lua:22: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'persist.dofile'
        /usr/share/games/corsix-th/CorsixTH.lua:78: in field 'require'
        /usr/share/games/corsix-th/Lua/app.lua:240: in method 'init'
        /usr/share/games/corsix-th/CorsixTH.lua:143: in main chunk
        [C]: in ?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: corsix-th 0.65.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-39.42-generic 5.15.35
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Jun 29 22:17:17 2022
SourcePackage: corsix-th
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)