Heroic Games Launcher: Native launcher for Epic Games and GOG games

Heroic Games Launcher: Native launcher for Epic Games and GOG games

Heroic Games Launcher: Native launcher for Epic Games and GOG games

About the company Epic Games and their games, with some frequency we usually make direct or related publications. And other times, we often post about gaming apps and games that facilitate the playful activity, fun and leisure about GNU / Linux. Being some of them Steam, Lutris, Itch.io, GameHub y Athenaeum. However, today our post will be about the app called “Heroic Games Launcher”.

Which is basically a native launcher for Epic Games and GOG games, Which is also multi platform and open source. Which makes it ideal, both to know and try, and to use for a long time, if necessary.

EPIC Games Store logo

And as usual, before getting into today's topic about the application “Heroic Games Launcher”, which serves as native alternative on GNU/Linux for the execution of platform games onlineas Epic Games and GOG, we will leave for those interested the following links to some previous related publications. In such a way that they can easily explore them, if necessary, after finishing reading this publication:

"Epic Games Store is the new store that has been launched by the video game developer Epic Games. Thus, it joins the alternatives and pretends to be a serious competitor of Valve and its Steam, but also of GOG and Humble.". EPIC Games Store threatens Valve Steam store

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Heroic Games Launcher: Epic Games and GOG Games Launcher

Heroic Games Launcher: Epic Games and GOG Games Launcher

What is Heroic Games Launcher?

According to the developers of “Heroic Games Launcher” at their Official website, this application is briefly described as:

"An alternative to Epic Games' game launcher, open source and available on Linux, Windows and MacOSX".

However, in the Wiki of its official site on GitHub, detail it more abundantly, and express the following:

"Heroic Games Launcher, or simply "Heroic", is a native graphical interface alternative to the Epic Games Launcher (EGL), for both Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is open source under the GPLv3 license, and is maintained by a community of developers who work for free in their spare time. For now, Heroic is mostly a GUI for Legendary (which is a CLI tool that handles login, download, and launch of games). While, support for other stores and adding your own games (think Steam's "Add Non-Steam Game" feature) is planned for the future.".

App review

Before starting the review of this application, it is worth noting that it will be tested on the respin called MiracleOS 3.0 MX-NG-22.01 based MX-21 (Debian-11) with XFCE and that we recently explored here,

Download

For your download and testing, we will use the package at .AppImage format. However, it is available in .deb, .rpm, .pacman and .tar.xz format. In addition, we will test your latest version available, from number 2.2.3.

Installation and Use

Since, it is a package in .AppImage format It should only be started with execution permissions, like any portable application, so that we can then log in to it, download the favorite and interesting games that we want, free or paid, and start playing.

It is worth noting that, already within it, the ideal and first thing to do is, configure the language of the graphical user interface (GUI)Within the Settings/General option. Then, download wine version with which you would like to manage the games, within the Wine Manager option. And lastly, within the Settings option, Wine/Other/Log, verify and change the default parameters, which are believed necessary or desirable.

At this point, we only have to go to the option of Stores, start the acquisition (free or paid) of the desired games, and download them. To then execute them through the option Library and enjoy them on GNU / Linux. Such as, we tried with the following image:

Heroic Games Launcher: Screenshot 1

Heroic Games Launcher: Screenshot 2

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Summary

In short, we hope that this interesting little post about the application “Heroic Games Launcher”, which, as we have seen, is an excellent native alternative to GNU/Linux for running online platform games, such as Epic Games and GOG; be very useful for many, especially for those who need to run windows games on platforms GNU / Linux, as is already being done with other apps such as Steam and Lutris.

We hope that this publication is very useful for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre, Código Abierto y GNU/Linux». And don't forget to comment on it below, and share it with others on your favorite websites, channels, groups or communities of social networks or messaging systems. Finally, visit our home page at «DesdeLinux» to explore more news, and join our official channel Telegram from DesdeLinux.


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