diff --git a/games/devilutionx/Makefile b/games/devilutionx/Makefile
index f855de03daf..6556bb05175 100644
--- a/games/devilutionx/Makefile
+++ b/games/devilutionx/Makefile
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ CATEGORIES =	games x11
 GH_ACCOUNT =	diasurgical
 GH_PROJECT =	devilutionX
 GH_TAGNAME =	1.1.0
+REVISION =	0
 
 MAINTAINER =	Brian Callahan <bcallah@openbsd.org>
 
@@ -26,7 +27,8 @@ LIB_DEPENDS =	devel/sdl2-mixer \
 CONFIGURE_ARGS =	-DBINARY_RELEASE=ON \
 			-DDEBUG=OFF \
 			-DDISABLE_LTO=ON \
-			-DVERSION_NUM="${GH_TAGNAME}"
+			-DVERSION_NUM="${GH_TAGNAME}" \
+			-DSDL2_INCLUDE_DIR=${LOCALBASE}/include/SDL2
 
 NO_TEST =	Yes
 
diff --git a/games/devilutionx/patches/patch-CMakeLists_txt b/games/devilutionx/patches/patch-CMakeLists_txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7c647491e82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games/devilutionx/patches/patch-CMakeLists_txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+EXPERIMENTAL: don't link SDL2::SDL2main (removed in SDL 2.24.0)
+Index: CMakeLists.txt
+--- CMakeLists.txt.orig
++++ CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -479,7 +479,6 @@ foreach(target devilution ${BIN_TARGET})
+     target_compile_definitions(${target} PRIVATE USE_SDL1)
+   else()
+     target_link_libraries(${target} PRIVATE
+-      SDL2::SDL2main
+       SDL2::SDL2_ttf
+       SDL2::SDL2_mixer)
+   endif()
diff --git a/games/devilutionx/patches/patch-CMake_FindSDL2_cmake b/games/devilutionx/patches/patch-CMake_FindSDL2_cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a3ef6999879
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games/devilutionx/patches/patch-CMake_FindSDL2_cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+comment out set_property to avoid error "set_property can not be used on an
+ALIAS target" 
+
+Index: CMake/FindSDL2.cmake
+--- CMake/FindSDL2.cmake.orig
++++ CMake/FindSDL2.cmake
+@@ -251,5 +251,5 @@ mark_as_advanced(SDL2_LIBRARY
+ 	SDL2_MWINDOWS_LIBRARY)
+ 
+ find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
+-set_property(TARGET SDL2::SDL2 APPEND PROPERTY
+-	INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES Threads::Threads)
++#set_property(TARGET SDL2::SDL2 APPEND PROPERTY
++#	INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES Threads::Threads)