Heroic Games Launcher 1.7.0 has been released. Heroic Games Launcher is an open source game launcher for Linux 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 1.7.0:
New Features
- Heroic now will continue the download status from where it stopped instead of getting back from 0% every time.
- Added option to enable Nvidia Prime Render Offload on settings
- Added a Wiki button to NavBar
Bugfixes
- Fixed an old bug where big installations could be interrupted #195
- Fixed another old bug where Heroic wasn't finding Steam Proton on Ubuntu and derivatives #359
- Fixed missing Unreal Marketplace Assets introduced on 1.6.1 #367
Other Stuff
Download Heroic Games Launcher 1.7.0
- Updated Electron to version 12, making it use less resources. In some cases almost 15% less RAM (from around 140MB to 115MB sometimes)
- Removed some other dependencies that might give some better performance overall as well.
