Heroic Games Launcher continues to evolve into an even more impressive cross-platform game launcher for GOG, Epic Games, Amazon Prime and more with v2.16 bringing some great enhancements.

Probably the biggest change is it’s now using the UMU project as a default. This project is meant to make sure that games will run without the user having to individually troubleshoot or manually install components.

Right now, there are many windows games that run perfectly if launched from steam, but if you try running the same game from epic/gog it won’t work without further work. The UMU project is building a game database of what specific games need to work, and it will automatically resolve those issues. This will only get better over time as more games get added to their database.

There are a lot of other changes as well, I recommend checking out the article for some other highlights or checking out the full patch notes here

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      It’s specifically for installing windows games from Epic, GoG, and Amazon. You can sync your libraries from those platforms and manage all your games you own there.

      I’m not sure how well it would work for installing windows games that aren’t from one of those stores.

      Heroic is probably the most full featured way to install games from those platforms, but you can also use other launchers like junk store (which is a Decky plugin for installing Epic games directly inside of game mode), non-steam launchers, and more.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      2·
      9 hours ago

      No. It’s an alternative, just like how Bottles is an alternative to either of those. I like Heroic, but use the launcher(s) you like.