Heroic Games Launcher 2.4.0 Update Released

The Heroic Games Launcher, the open-source game launcher for Epic and GOG games, has been updated to 2.4.0 on their stable branch, bringing over some massive improvements and awesome features from the beta. The update was pushed out two days ago on August 11th. There was a ton of changes from the last patch, like showing a unified library, Epic overlay support, support for EAC and BattlEye anticheat, adding game shortcuts, and GOG cloud saves! This is a summary of the patch notes and does not include every change:

• [UI/UX] Library improvements
  • Add the current Download/Update(s) on the sidebar;
  • Show a unified library + add a new Store Filter.
  • Add the ability to collapse the sidebar.
  • Updated the Sidebar with a new design;
  • Add a Favorites button to show only the favorites;
  • Add Auto-Complete to the Search Bar;
  • Simplify Game List for a cleaner look;
  • Use this new game list for the wine manager as well;
  • Add scale effect on GameCard on mouse hover.
  • Change the Design of buttons, selects, and inputs to match the current Figma Design.
  • Fine-tune the fuzzy search since it was showing a lot of items not related to the search.
  • Several styles fixes to improve consistency;
  • Add the Heroic version to the sidebar;
  • Show available new versions (beta and stable) on the sidebar as well (except Flatpak)
  • Added a notification when starting moving a game
• [General] GOG Cloud Save support for Windows, Linux (Windows games with Wine/Proton since GOG doesn't have Cloud saves for Linux games), and macOS games (native and windows using Crossover).
• [General] Added a Joystick overlay with the list of actions at the bottom of the library when a joystick is connected
• [Linux/Windows] Epic Overlay support. Since the latest DXVK version made it run on Linux we decided to give support for it as well. It is downloaded on the Heroic Settings and enabled on the Game Page > Tools. Also, once it is enabled it will be enabled on the Wine Prefix in general. You might also need to install corefonts from winetricks.
• [Linux] EAC/BattleEYE Anticheats runtime. Heroic will download and use the runtime if enable on the game settings during launch, this will make it easier to play games that need them on Linux. Of course not all games will work and for some of them, like Fall Guys, some extra steps are required as well. We will update our Wiki with the workarounds with time.
  [Linux] Anti-cheat information on the game page. Heroic now gets information from the website areweanticheatyet.com and shows it on the game page so you know if it's possible to run the game on Linux or not. Some information might not be precise as well so let us know if you find something wrong.
• [Linux] On the game settings now we added a dedicated and easier way of adding environmental variables or wrappers (like gamescope). Instead of writing everything in one now, we added an editable table for that;
• [General] Add Game Shortcut to Steam. On the game page > Tools, there is a new link that can be used to add the game to Steam. This shortcut will still run Heroic in the background so it can handle sync saves, etc. but the process will be killed after the game closes.
• [General] We added helper icons to some settings to explain things like VKD3D, DXVK and others.
• [General] Add an option to use HTTP instead of HTTPS when downloading games.
• [General] Add button in Game Page > Tools to force a game update (if available)
• [Linux] Added option to display Wine executable path
• [Linux] When using Wine or Proton now Heroic will use the libraries that were shipped with the downloaded version instead of the system. But there is an option on the game settings to prefer system libs as well.
• [UX] Add option to change Game Language
• [Fix] Disable controller on boot setting
• [Fix] detection of search bar focus to open the virtual keyboard
• [Fix] DOSBOX Windows Games
• [Fix] Setup GOG games with Proton + ScummVM patch
• [Fix] multiple settings written
• [Fix] No longer replace token/sid with redacted
• [Other] Remove CrossOver support on Linux
• Several other improvements and fixes for all platforms, stores and functionalities.
• Legendary was updated to v0.20.27
• Electron updated to v20.0.1

You can view the full changelog over on the Github release page. I am overjoyed seeing Heroic updating and adding in some great features and QoL improvements, especially the cloud saves for GOG games. You can download Heroic Games Launcher from the Discover store or from the Github page linked above.