How to play games from GOG and Epic Games on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck
How to play games from GOG and Epic Games on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck
While most of Linux gaming revolves around Steam, SteamOS and Steam Deck. GOG and Epic Games can be run on Linux platforms too - here's how.
Heroic is really nice and what I recommend, but the UI is a bit clunky and spread out.
Heroic works very well indeed. I locked Anno1404 at a specific wine-proton version to keep it working with a big mod. Quite simple to figure out
I agree the UI can be feel a bit spread out (you access the stores at the Stores section, but your games are at the Library), yet I personally couldn't even come up with a better way for them to do things.
I used to hate non-steam gaming as I could never figure out Lutris, but then I tried Heroic and it was really intuitive for me to the point I now use it more than Steam (I've always played non-Steam games often, but I used to add them as to Steam as third-party games and it was always clunky).
Yeah, bit too early to call. There are still a few games Lutris does better. But for the most part I do like Heroic for non-steam games.
Do you recommend Heroic over Lutris? Why or why not? Can Heroic launch EA App games?
Heroic is better than Lutris for Epic, GOG and Amazon because it doesn't need their respective launchers or installers. It basically downloads just the game files without any intermediary archive, installer or launcher. So game installation is much faster. Heroic also supports game updates and cloud saves.
Heroic accomplishes that by using open source command line clients for the respective shops. I really wish Lutris would do the same. Would make it much better.
What makes Lutris better is that it supports even more stores and launchers and even emulators. It also has Steam integration. So it can contain all your games. Unfortunately it does not display all your available games in one combined library view, which makes finding uninstalled games much harder. But supposedly they are working on getting a combined view. No idea what's taking them so long.
Lutris used to give you more tools to configure Wine and other helpers, but Heroic is quickly catching up.
Heroic can support EA games and other launchers by basically doing the same thing Lutris does. You just install the launcher with Proton and use that.
For me both have their use cases. Heroic is my go to for GOG and Epic games and everything else not Steam (e. g. old Windows install files that I still have lying around). EA App only ran for me on Lutris until one day it didn't. Then I tried with Bottles and it worked ever since. Not trying to add more confusion, but for some people Bottles has a more intuitive interface than Lutris.