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- File:Symbol opinion vote.svg Comment: The sources here aren't really contributing to notability, needs more coverage MediaKyle (talk) 11:03, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- File:Symbol opinion vote.svg Comment: Three sources are from GitHub, which isn't reliable (WP:UGC) and one or two come from the launcher's developers themselves. Does not show this is notable. Rambley (talk) 18:29, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
| Heroic Games Launcher | |
|---|---|
| Heroic game laucher icon for macOS Heroic game laucher icon for macOS | |
| Developers | Contributors Flávio Fearn |
| Initial release | January 5, 2021.[1] |
| Stable release | 2.18.0
/ July 23, 2025[2] |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | TypeScript |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows, SteamOS |
| Available in | 52 languages[3] |
List of languages English, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian ,Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified Han script), Chinese (Traditional Han script), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Ladino, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Silesian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese | |
| Type | Game manager and game launcher |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | heroicgameslauncher |
Heroic Games Launcher is a free and open-source game manager for operating systems like Linux, Windows, macOS and SteamOS. It is developed and maintained by Flávio Fearn and contributors, it is released under the GNU General Public License.[3]
It is built with support for Wine, Proton and CrossOver for games that require compatibility in Unix-based operating systems. In such cases where it is used as a compatibility layer, it offers automatic configurations of the Wine environment for games purchased from GOG, Steam, Epic Games Store and local game files.[4]
History
[edit | edit source]Heroic started as a project to implement a GUI to Legendary, a free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher on Linux and macOS using Wine.[1] This graphical interface is build using the software framework Electron.[5]
It has since had over 180 releases. The main development features have included the access to various game store, such as the Epic Games Store, Amazon Prime Store or GOG store[6]
References
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- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
See also
[edit | edit source]Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 392: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal').
Category:Linux emulation software Category:Multi-emulators Category:Software derived from or incorporating Wine
