Huzzah! The Heroic Games Launcher has released their newest beta for the launcher. This one adds some fantastic tools including GOG cloud save support, Epic overlay support, support to download anticheats, and a built in Steam shortcut creator:

  • 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). Still in early development so it's recommended that you backup your saves before using it. Some games might also return some false positives when they support or not the feature, so let us know if some game doesn't have the correct information.
  • Epic Overlay support.
  • 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.
  • Anti-cheat information on the game page.
  • On the game settings now we added a dedicated and easier way of adding environmental variables or wrappers (like gamescope).
  • 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.
  • We added helper icons to some settings to explain things like VKD3D, DXVK and others.
  • Add an option to use HTTP instead of HTTPS when downloading games.
  • Add button in Game Page > Tools to force a game update (if available)
  • When using Wine or Proton now Heroic will use the libraries that were shipped with the downloaded version instead of the system.
  • Electron was updated to v19
  • Legendary was updated to v0.20.27
  • GOGDL was updated to v0.4
  • Several other fixes and improvements.

They did write a little more for some of these explaining some backend processes. You can view the full changelog over on their Github release page. If you don't see the beta yet, it will be updated automatically on the Discover store, can take a few hours to appear.

The Heroic Games Launcher is a 3rd party open-source launcher that is used to house Epic and GOG games. Their respective launchers don't run natively on Linux, so Heroic was created to combat this. You can find the incredible launcher on the Discover store.

Noah Kupetsky
A lover of gaming since 4, Noah has grown up with a love and passion for the industry. From there, he started to travel a lot and develop a joy for handheld and PC gaming. When the Steam Deck released, it just all clicked.
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