![]() ![]() You’ll be presented with a long list of different flavors of Wine to choose from. In Heroic, go ahead and select Wine Manager on the sidebar. There are many different versions of Wine and Proton (Proton being a distribution of Wine originally made by Valve, with extra features and configurations tailored towards gaming), and Heroic offers you a dedicated section to install a variety of them. This page will allow you to log into another one of the two services offered, or log out.īefore continuing on with installing games, you probably want to have a look at the Wine Manager section.Īs I’ve explained in my previous article about Proton GE, Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run Windows only games and programs on Linux and the Steam Deck. You’ll be able to manage your accounts in the future by going to your username on the bottom right corner of the window and selecting Manage Accounts, as shown here: The first time you launch Heroic, you’ll be prompted to log into either your Epic Games or GOG account. Go to desktop mode, open up the Discover app center, search for Heroic Games Launcher and install it.Īlternatively you can install it from the terminal with the following command:įlatpak install Installing Heroic has recently been made a lot easier: you can just install it using Flatpak. ![]() Support for GOG in Heroic is a fairly recent addition, and while it’s not 100% necessary to use GOG games on Linux and the Steam Deck, it makes the whole experience easier and more streamlined. ![]() Heroic is built on top of Legendary, providing a familiar user interface on top of Legendary, plus some extra bonuses. Legendary is an open-source game launcher that can download and install games from the Epic Games platform With GOG you can just download the games you bought from their website, and then just install them manually, but as far as I know, with the Epic store you don’t have any choice (officially at least) but to use their Windows only client.Īs for the Epic Store, that’s where the Legendary project, in combination with Heroic, come into play. This particular tool felt necessary since neither GOG nor Epic have a Linux client to speak of. Heroic is a community made Game Launcher that allows you to download, manage and play games you might have bought from GOG or the Epic Game Store. Keeping on the theme of using non-Steam games, today I’ll tell you about the Heroic Games Launcher. ![]()
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