The next Heroic release is at the corner and one of the features we will have now is the ability to Sideload an URL. Yes, any Web application, from a streaming service to a cloud gaming service. No limits.
We can just wonder what will the community do with that :D
Another feature we are working on next the Release is the ability to add ANY app or game to Heroic. It can be a native executable, AppImage, script, or Windows software or game. Basically, anything works. Here is a short demo of it:
With Amazon Games support being worked on for
@HeroicLauncher
I can say that I have definitely too many god damn games across GOG, Epic, and Amazon (though there are quite a few dupes)😛
Pull requests:
Another great upcoming feature for players on Linux and macOS will be the ability to choose the platform when installing a game. So you will be able to install the Windows version of a game and use wine / crossover / proton to play :)
Today is the day we celebrate Heroic's 3rd anniversary! 🥳
We want to thank all our contributors who delivered more than 400 commits to the project this year! 💪
All our Supporters on Patreon, Kofi, and Github Sponsors. ❤️
And All gamers that use Heroic to have fun!
Cheers! 🍻
New Version is out now on all platforms! :D
With new features like:
- Epic Games DLC Manager
- Auto-download Wine on Linux and macOS
- Sideload of Browser Apps
- Several fixes and improvements
It took a while but Heroic v2.9.0 is finally out!
The new Amazon Games integration is the main feature here but there are also a ton of other features and fixes you want to check out.
The Changelog is huge because it was a lot of work on this one! :D
We have been working hard on the next BIG release and we will tell you more about the upcoming features pretty soon. For now, let me show you a sneak peek of one of the most requested and awaited features so far:
Great news! It is now possible to support Heroic by buying games from the
@GOGcom
using our personalized link: This way, you can buy games, especially now on the huge new year sale, and support our project. That is and will forever be free! :)
Heroic is 2 years old today! 🎉
We would like to thank everyone that supports the project and all our collaborators and friends as well. It is being a magical journey so far and there is a lot more to come! :D
Our first release of 2024 is out!
It includes several fixes, improvements, and new features as always!
If you are on macOS, this fixes several things there.
It also automates a lot of things on Linux and macOS to make the games work OOTB!
Check it out!
It seems that Epic is now requiring that you go to your account on their website and add your Birth Date there.
If you don't do that, you won't be able to download or play games with Heroic.
This change, of course, needed to happen just after a new Heroic release...
We are preparing the new beta for it to be released probably tomorrow.
I few of the highlights:
- GOG Cloud saves
- EAC runtime support
- Epic Overlay support
- Add shortcut to Steam, and more.
More info soon 😁
One feature we are currently working on right now is to show the current Anti-Cheat status of some games for Linux/SteamDeck (maybe macOS as well). So you can check the information before installing the game.
Ofc we are using the great website: :D
We know that for newcomers to the Linux world, especially with the SteamDeck, some terms like VKD3D, DXVK, Prefixes, and others, are hard to understand. So we are adding a help icon for those settings to make them clear to all:
Example:
Hi!
We are aware that HDR is not working properly on the SteamDeck Oled for games launched through Heroic and we are actively looking into a fix for it.
I will post here once we find a fix 😉
Heroic v2.3.3 was just released with some fixes and improvements for Linux and Steam Deck users like:
Use Steam runtime when using Proton to launch games and fixes for a few bugs introduced on v2.3.2
If adding web apps to Heroic is not enough for you, the next release will also bring a long-awaited feature: DLCs manager. For now, only available for Epic Games, you will be able to select individual DLCs when installing a game and later install or remove any if you want to.
We are currently doing some experiments with the Library like:
- Show Favorites only (we heard you
@thelinuxEXP
)
- Unify all libraries
- Always show the title and Icons (better for accessibility)
- New Sidebar Layout and more to come on the next Beta!
When we talk about Gaming, we think that this is something that should be for everybody, so we take
#Accessibility
as part of the development process. Now we are working on a new Accessibility Screen to help people to make Heroic UI easier to use for the visually impaired.
#A11y
We are currently testing the implementation of Apple's new Gaming Porting Toolkit to be used inside Heroic on macOS.
If you want to test it, you can follow instructions on this Pull request:
Congratulations on the release! the new UI looks fantastic. For those who don't know, HyperPlay is a Heroic fork, open source as well, and they are always contributing back to us with improvements, fixes, new features, etc.
They have their own store and the project looks amazing!
1/5 Big news, gamers! We're thrilled to announce a major update to HyperPlay, the web3-native game launcher from the future! You can experience dozens of web3 games by downloading from or updating directly from your already installed client. 🧵
Amazing article with a pretty good and fair comparison. Also, besides being faster, Heroic is 100% open source and does not collect any use that so that, we could say, is even more important.
Cheers! :)
We have just updated the Flatpak script so it contains some dependencies that were needed by Winetricks so it should work fine now. You should get a notification of a Heroic update on your distro Store on the stable channel and soon on the beta channel as well. Still v2.4 though
It is 2023 and we are eager to release a new Heroic version with many improvements. We still don't know when it will be ready but so far let us show you a sneak peak of it:
- The Games Settings was moved to a Modal. So no need to navigate to another page just to change them
We are aware that some people are having issues with Epic login today, it looks like a coincidence that we have released 2.4.1 and at the same time Epic is denying the login attempts even when using
@legendary_gl
alone.
we are investigating that.
What do you think of creating your own Themes for Heroic and sharing them with others?
'Custom themes' is a new feature that will be available in the next release!
We know that we have a lot of users on the SteamDeck. Still, no one on our team has one to test and improve Heroic on it, fix bugs and increase compatibility.
We now have a goal to buy a Steam Deck and you can help us reach that goal :)
The next stable is taking more time to release than we thought, but we are close. And the main reason is that we are working hard to release a pretty stable and exciting new version for everyone. More news soon :D
Heroic 2.3.4 is out with fixes for SteamDeck/Flatpak, fixes macOS, Linux, GOG games, cloud saves, a new 'No Gui' option, and more! :D
Flatpak version can take a few hours to update :)
Same here!
The Heroic team respect all differences and we do not tolerate any type of hate speech or discrimination against anyone.
This is 21th century, the world and life are complicated enough for us to waste time with hate!
An old and small request that will be finally done on next release.
Along with platform selection (for Linux and Mac), Favourites, Hide games and more.
Thanks for mentioning Heroic on the analysis. The GOG implementation is still new and we are trying to Improve it on every release.
We also post some articles on our wiki on how to use dosbox.
A second tip, for native games, is to turn on the steam runtime on the game settings...
The Steam Deck is super impressive being able to play modern PC games, retro games on emulators and more. But it's not perfect. At least not yet 😉 WATCH -- >
It seems that the community have created a few arts to be used on Steam when adding Heroic to it.
Soon we will provide official ones more built by our designers.
You can download the community ones from here:
Heroic has grown a lot, both in users and contributors, in the last couple of years, and we appreciate this a lot! To better protect our project and codebase against malicious actors, we have decided to require that all new contributors sign a CLA. 🙂
A new Beta release is out! Our Halloween gifts 🎃
- Download Manager
- Custom User Themes
- Sideloaded Apps/Games
- A lot more
As always, we ask for your feedback, and feel free to open Issues with bugs found on the Beta on our GH.
Thanks to all the feedback we got from the betas, the new release turned out to be pretty stable. So far only a few small bugs were found.
Thanks to everyone that helped us testing! 😁
Are you a Developer, not matter the level, and want to contribute to a project like Heroic and add it to your Portfolio and Github but don't know where to start?
Check out issues and feature requests that are marked as 'Good First Issue' on our Github.
A new release for Heroic is out!
- Fix Epic games not being downloaded
- Fix GOG progress stuck and wrong ETA
- Fix Heroic now opening on some Windows configurations
- Add 7 new Languages
- Other fixes and improvements
Our first release of 2024 is out!
It includes several fixes, improvements, and new features as always!
If you are on macOS, this fixes several things there.
It also automates a lot of things on Linux and macOS to make the games work OOTB!
Check it out!
We have just released a new Heroic Version addressing some issues like the Black screen on startup, epic Login not working, and others. Check the full changelog here:
Hello fellow followers!
In which operating system are you using Heroic?
Elaborate on the distro/version in the comments. PS.:I know SteamOS is Linux but is good to split them for now. ?
Heroic will be speaking at the
@ubuntu
summer conference in Latvia this year! 🎉
Pawel
@ImLinguin
along with Denis
@der_rod
from
@legendary_gl
will talk about Linux Gaming and the challenges of bringing support for
@GOGcom
and
@EpicGames
on the platform and the SteamDeck.
This makes it pretty easy to integrate other launches like in the video above, or even to add some Abandonware games, Emulators, etc. Most types of apps will work just fine and will be available on all platforms.
It seems the fix is simple. Just make sure you have Gamescope installed from flatpak. Heroic cannot use the one steam provides on the deck so you need to install it to make HDR work.
Feel free to join our discord if you have any questions about it!
Hi!
We are aware that HDR is not working properly on the SteamDeck Oled for games launched through Heroic and we are actively looking into a fix for it.
I will post here once we find a fix 😉
Some people are asking us why Star Wars Squadron is not appearing on their library.
The reason is because this game need to be downloaded and launched through Origin/EA app and this is not yet possible on Heroic.
We are investigating on how to support these games in the future.
This will add functionality to add several games even from different stores to a download queue that is updated automatically after the download is finished.
Still WIP but it is showing amazing results.
Will share a video of it pretty soon as well. :D
We are working on creating new built-in themes for Heroic and also the ability for users to create and share them with others.
But what theme would you like to see on Heroic next?
Are you guys missing the HowLongToBeat information on the game page? we have moved it to the Game Submenu > Extra Info.
Since some people are missing that, we are doing some experiments like the one below.
You click on the text and it shows the info. What do you think?
Gamescope is such an AMAZING tool for gamers on Linux. We are working to add a setting for it in Heroic. But, even without it, it will simply work just fine by following a few small steps:
If you have encountered some bugs after updating to Heroic 2.5.0, try cleaning up the cache on Advanced settings or even resetting heroic (it will keep your login session and games). On Linux, creating a new wine prefix also does the trick.
Heroic and
@legendary_gl
teams did a presentation at Ubuntu Summit last month. If you are curious to know how the project started and how we are working together to make Gaming better and open for all, here is the recording of it:
Really wish Epic could give me some sort of game access for the Epic Store so I could troubleshoot titles on
@legendary_gl
/
@HeroicLauncher
without having to buy them or ask friends to lend me their accounts >_>
New Beta is out! 🎉
-Integrated HowLongtoBeat data on GamePage
-Downloads manager improvements.
-The navigation when using a joystick similar to SteamDeck UI.
-Detect if a game on an External Drive is available or not and change it is status.
+a lot more
Hello!
We have been a bit quiet recently here on Twitter but Heroic development is at a Full Blast as ever! Soon we will have new on our next release! ;)
If you are having some issues with Windows games on the SteamDeck when using Proton, try disabling the Steam runtime on the Game settings > Other. We will release a fix for that soon.
A new Beta is out!
With new Themes, Platform Selection, Favorites,
the possibility to hide or replace the Recently Played with favorites, new sorting options, GOG fixes for Windows, and more!
Help us test it! :D