README

Heroic Games Launcher




  





Heroic is an Open Source Game Launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS.  
Right now it supports launching games from the Epic Games Store using Legendary, GOG Games using our custom implementation with gogdl and Amazon Games using Nile.

Heroic is built with Web Technologies:  









 Index

- Heroic Games Launcher
  - Index
  - Features available right now
  - Planned features
  - Supported Operating Systems
  - Language Support
    - Help with Translations Here
  - Installation
    - Linux
      - Flatpak
      - Debian, Ubuntu and Derivatives
      - Arch (AUR)
      - Fedora
      - Nix(OS)
      - Other Distributions (AppImage and TAR.XZ)
    - Windows
    - macOS
  - Development environment
    - Building Heroic Binaries
    - Building with VS Code
    - Quickly testing/debugging Heroic on your own system
    - Testing with Docker
    - Development on nix
  - Sponsors
  - Screenshots
  - Credits

 Features available right now

- Login with an existing Epic Games, GOG or Amazon account
- Install, uninstall, update, repair and move Games
- Import an already installed game
- Play Epic games online [AntiCheat on macOS and on Linux depends on the game]
- Play games using Wine or Proton [Linux]
- Play games using Crossover [macOS]
- Download custom Wine and Proton versions [Linux]
- Access to Epic, GOG and Amazon Games stores directly from Heroic
- Search for the game on ProtonDB for compatibility information [Linux]
- Show ProtonDB and Steam Deck compatibility information [Linux]
- Sync installed games with an existing Epic Games Store installation
- Sync saves with the cloud
- Custom Theming Support
- Download queue
- Add Games and Applications outside GOG, Epic Games and Amazon Games
- Define your categories to organize your collection

 Planned features

- Support Other Store (IndieGala, etc)

 Supported Operating Systems

- Linux:
  - Ubuntu (latest 2 LTS versions)
  - Fedora (latest 2 versions)
  - Arch Linux & derivatives (Manjaro, Garuda, EndeavourOS)
  - Heroic will still _work_ on most distros, but it is up to you to _get_ it to work
    Chances are though that someone on our Discord can help you
- SteamOS (downloading using Discover only)
- Windows 10 & 11
- macOS 14 or newer

 Language Support


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Thanks to the community, Heroic was translated to almost 40 different languages so far:

- English
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarussian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Czech
- Croatian
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebraic
- Japanese
- Korean
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Indonesian
- Malayalam
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Spanish
- Slovak
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese



 Help with Translations Here

 Installation

 Linux

 Flatpak



Heroic is available on Flathub, so you should be able to easily install it on most distros with Softwar