Play Windows Games on Linux With Heroic | Free Open Source GOG and Epic Games Launcher
Playing Epic games on Linux is getting easier and easier. Thanks to Valve and all Free Open Source community. Most games on my library now need no (or very little) tweaking to get running smoothly.
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I don't use Lutris Open Gaming Platform or Bottles (shared earlier on this channel) anymore. Heroic is a lot of simpler. It supports launching games from the Epic Games Store using Legendary and GOG Games using our custom implementation with gogdl.
Hope this video help for those people who want to gaming let say on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Manjaro, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Debian, Kali Linux, Steam OS, etc especially for someone new to Linux and don't know how and from where to start.
TEST BENCH QUICK SPECS
Distribution : Fedora 37 Workstation
Kernel : Linux 6.1.15
Mesa : 22.3.7
Wine Version : Proton Experimental
CPU : AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
GPU : AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8GB
RAM : 2x8GB @ 3600Mhz
Recorded With : OBS (FFmpeg VAAPI H.264)
HEROIC GAMES LAUNCHER FEATURES
#1 Game Page
Check game details including description, publisher, download and install size, time played and more.
#2 Platform Selection
On Linux and on MacOS you can select to install the Windows version of a native game. This might be handy in case the native version is not supported anymore. On Linux you can choose that for GOG games only.
#3 Access to the Stores
Go to the Epic or GOG store without even leaving Heroic. Get free games or buy new ones directly from Heroic's interface.
#4 Organize your library
Add games to favorites or simply hide the games you already played or will never play at all.
#5 Themes
If you don't like the default colors, you have the ability to change them. It also includes the famous Dracula theme.
#6 Wine Manager
On Linux, download the latest version of Wine-GE, Wine-Lutris or even Proton-GE using the Wine Manager. These selection of Wine version are focused on improving the gaming experience and compatibility.
#7 Wine Settings
Besides using the right Wine version, it is important to setup everything to have the best gameplay experience on Linux and on macOS. Under the Wine Settings it is possible to auto install tools like DXVK, VKD3D, FSR and also to run WineCFG, Winetricks and Run EXE on the prefix, so you can install games pre-requisites in a easy way.
#8 Multi Language
Heroic was translated by the community in more than 30 languages, from Portuguese to Korean, from Farsi to French.
INSTALL HEROIC GAMES LAUNCHER
#1 Debian or Ubuntu Based Distros
- Download .deb package latest release https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/releases/
- Double-click it to open it up in your Software Manager
- Or run sudo dpkg -i heroic_*_amd64.deb from Terminal
#2 Fedora
- sudo dnf copr enable atim/heroic-games-launcher
- sudo dnf install heroic-games-launcher-bin
#3 Other Distributions (AppImage)
- Download the file ending in .AppImage from the latest release https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/releases/
- Run chmod +x Heroic*.AppImage to make it executable
- Double-click or run ./Heroic*.AppImage to launch the program
#4 Flatpak
- flatpak install flathub com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl
- flatpak run com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl
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