Heroic Games Launcher

Heroic is an Open Source Game Launcher for Linux, Windows (Beta) and MacOS (Limited to Windows games using Wine/Crossover). Right now it supports launching games from the Epic Games Store using Legendary, a CLI alternative to the Epic Games Launcher. Heroic is built with Web Technologies like: TypeScript, React, NodeJS and Electron.

Index

• Heroic Games Launcher
  • Index
  • How to use it
  • Features available right now
  • Planned features
  • Language Support
    • Help with Translations Here
  • Installation
    • Linux
      • Debian
      • Ubuntu (third party apt repository)
      • Arch (AUR)
      • Fedora
      • Other Distributions
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Build binaries locally (All platforms)
  • Screenshots

How to use it

• Download and Install the package for your distro, the universal AppImage for Linux or the executable for Windows on the Releases Page;
• If you used Legendary before, it loads your library and installed games. If not, it will ask you to login first. Just follow the instructions.

Features available right now

• Login with an existing Epic Games account
• Install/Uninstall Games
• Import an already installed game
• Play online [EAC not supported on Linux]
• Update installed Games
• Repair installed Games
• Move installed games to different folders
• Play games using the default wine and default prefix [Linux]
• Play game with custom wine and prefix [Linux]
• Check basic information about your Games
• Open game page on Epic Store
• Search for the game on ProtonDB [Linux]
• Sync installed games with an existing Epic Games instalation
• Sync saves with the cloud

Planned features

• Better Login System
• Add Games outside Epic Games
• Integration with other stores (GOG, ITCH.IO, Humble Bundle)

Language Support

• English
• Catalan
• Czech
• Simplified Chinese
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Malayalam
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tamil
• Turkish

Help with Translations Here

Installation

Linux

Debian

Download the heroic_x.x.x_amd64.deb from the Releases section

sudo dpkg -i heroic_x.x.x_amd64.deb

Ubuntu (third party apt repository)

You can add the MAD Linux apt repository:

bash <(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/main/madrepo.sh)

If you need support on it, get access to MAD Linux Guilded server.

Maybe you want to boost the download speed on updates with apt-fast:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:apt-fast/stable
sudo apt install -y apt-fast
apt-fast install -y heroic

Arch (AUR)

AUR page: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/heroic-games-launcher-bin/

To install it manually use:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/heroic-games-launcher-bin.git

cd heroic-games-launcher-bin

makepkg --cleanbuild --syncdeps --install --clean --rmdeps

Otherwise you can install it via your prefered AUR helper, e.g. yay.

Fedora

Heroic for Fedora is available on the COPR repo or as the binary on the releases page.

Other Distributions

Download the heroic-x.x.x.AppImage from the Releases section.

To make it executable use:

chmod +x heroic-x.x.x.AppImage

To run it use:

./heroic-x.x.x.AppImage

Windows

Download Heroic.Setup.x.x.x.exe and run it. It will install it to the start menu and desktop, use those to run it.

macOS

Download Heroic-x.x.x.dmg and install it.

Build binaries locally (All platforms)

• All Platforms: Requires NodeJS to build
  Use yarn or npm

git clone https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher.git

cd HeroicGamesLauncher

• Build for Linux:

yarn

yarn dist {package to create} (eg: deb, pacman, tar.xz, rpm, AppImage)

• Build for Windows (Beta):

yarn.cmd (or npm install)

yarn.cmd (or npm run) dist-win

• Build for Mac (Alpha):

yarn (or npm install)

yarn (or npm run) dist-mac

Screenshots