Heroic Games Launcher

This app is a Linux GUI for the tool Legendary, a Linux native alternative to the Epic Games Launcher.

Design based on the UI/UX Research by Biliane Moreira

Current Version Screenshots

How to use it:

• Download and install the package for your distro or the universal AppImage file on the Releases Page;
• If you used Legendary before, it load your library and installed games. If not, it will ask you for Login First. Just follow the instructions.

Feature availables right now

• Login with an existing Epic Games account
• Logout
• See the your personal Game library
• Install/Uninstall Games
• Import a already installed game
• Multiple installations at the same time
• Play games using the default wine and default prefix
• Play game with custom wine (Lutris Wine/Proton maybe but can lead to bugs)
• Run games on custom wine prefix
• Check basic information about your Games
• Open game page on Epic Store
• Search for the game on ProtonDB
• Sync installed games with an existing Epic Games instalation folder
• Sync saves with the cloud

Planned features

• Verify installed Games
• Update installed Games
• Get the Free game of the week
• Add Games outside Epic Games
• Integration with other stores

Binaries supported right now

• DEB, RPM, Pacman, AppImage and TAR.XZ (with the heroic binary and all dependecies)
• Might think about Flatpak in the future as well
• There is a AUR version right now: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/heroic-games-launcher-bin/

How to build and run locally

This app uses web technologies like Electron, React and Typescript. To be able to run you will need to have NodeJs installed locally and follow the instructions below:

Steps:

• Clone the Repository.
• Install foreman with npm i -g foreman.
• On the project folder run npm install.
• Run npm run build to build the React Assets.
• Run npm start.
• To build the binaries run npm run dist.