Heroic-Games-Launcher

    Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher

    A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.

    12.6K stars
    714 forks
    57 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 6, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 22 days ago, with 201 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #88 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 22, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides an open source game launcher for Linux, Windows, and macOS supporting Epic Games Store, GOG, and Amazon Games.
    • Enables unified management and launching of games across multiple stores with native support for Wine, Proton, and Crossover.
    • Use for playing and managing Epic Games Store titles on Linux with Proton compatibility and online play support.
    • Use for organizing and launching GOG games with features like install, update, cloud save sync, and custom theming.
    • Use for running Amazon Games on multiple platforms with integrated account login and game synchronization.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    GPL 3.0

    Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

    • GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.

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    From the README

    Heroic is an Open Source Game Launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Right now it supports launching games from the Epic Games Store using Legendary, GOG Games using our custom implementation with gogdl and Amazon Games using Nile.

    Excerpt from the Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher README on GitHub (GPL-3.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    714+56

    Open issues

    968+99

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