Heroic Games Launcher 1.10.0 has been released. Heroic Games Launcher is an open source game launcher with support for games from the Epic Games Store using the Legendary CLI tool.
Heroic is an Open Source Game Launcher for Linux. Right now it supports launching game from the Epic Games Store using Legendary, a Linux CLI alternative to launch epic games. Heroic is built with Web Technologies like: TypeScript, React, NodeJS and Electron.
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 loads your library and installed games. If not, it will ask you to login first. Just follow the instructions.
Feature available right now
- Login with an existing Epic Games account
- Install/Uninstall Games
- Import an already installed game
- Play online (EAC not supported)
- Update installed Games
- Repair installed Games
- Move installed games to different folders
- Multiple downloads 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
Change log for 1.10.0:
This is a test release for 1.10.0 and is missing some translations for most languages and might contain bugs since we have several changes here.
General
- Heroic now can install components from games that have selective download. (Fortnite, CyberPunk, etc).
- Now is possible to run the game using an alternative executable.
- Heroic will list available DLCs and add a toggle to install/import all of them or no.
- Heroic now will open the Epic Store and the Wiki on the main window instead of a separate one.
- It's possible to check the download size and install size before installing the game.
- (Mac/Linux) Heroic will now check for available Crossover bottle and select the right wine binary.
- (Linux) Added Options to enable or disable Esync/Fsync.
- Some visual fixes and improvements.
- Added Japanese Language.
- Other translations updates and fixes.
- Updated Electron to version 15.1.
- Updated Legendary to version 0.20.14.
Bugfixes
Download Heroic Games Launcher 1.10.0 RC1
- Fix Heroic not checking available space before installing a game.
- Fix Heroic not launching a game when skipping an update available.
- Fix Save folder on Windows missing a backslash
- Fixed card image with wrong size.
- Fix the Return button that was not clickable sometimes.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.