Heroic

Heroic is an open-source game launcher that primarily supports launching games from the Epic Games Store by leveraging Legendary CLI tool. Heroic aims to be an easy to use game launcher, with features like per-game WINE prefix with ability to easily switch between WINE versions.

Heroic Games Launcher is built upon Electron and uses Legendary to interact with Epic Games Services.

1. Installation

Heroic games launcher is not yet available for direct installation via any distribution's official application store. Although it is very easy to install it on your own.

You can find a suitable installation file for your distro at their Github Releases section here

All installation methods are listed on their Github here

Debian, Ubuntu and Derivatives such as Pop!_OS

Download the heroic_x.x.x_amd64.deb from the GitHub Releases section. If your OS supports this, you can simply open the downloaded .deb file to begin the installation.

Otherwise you can install it via dpkg by bringing up a terminal and running following command

sudo dpkg -i /path/to/heroic_x.x.x_amd64.deb

Note: amd64 here refers to system architecture which this package supports. Make sure that your system is compatible with the program you are trying to install.

Using AppImage

Download the heroic-x.x.x.AppImage from the GitHub Releases section. Make sure you have curl and gawk installed, normally it comes installed in most distros.

To make the AppImage executable use:

chmod +x heroic-x.x.x.AppImage

To run it use

./heroic-x.x.x.AppImage

2. Installing and importing games

Installing games are as easy as going to the library and selecting a game that you want to play. If you have already downloaded the game and you just want to import it then press on Import Game otherwise press Install to start installation in the specified folder.

4. See also

Heroic Games Launcher Github

Legendary Github