Heroic Games Launcher 1.8.2 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 1.8.2:

Features:

• Now Heroic will cache the game information (description, requirements, etc) after opening the game page the first time. Then, the information will be cached and the game page will start loading instantly.

Bugfixes:

• All: The library is not refreshing after uninstall, so the game will still appear on the library until you click on refresh library or restart Heroic.
• Linux: Installations and other commands won't work if your $SHELL env variable is other than bash or zsh.
• Windows: Installing in a place other than the default path causes Heroic to never open.
• Also fixes some UI elements that were misplaced
• Translations fixes.

Download Heroic Games Launcher 1.8.2