Heroic Games Launcher (Epic Games store)

Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source launcher available on Flathub which supports launching games from the Epic Games Store using Legendary and GOG Games. Unfortunately this launcher is not as fully integrated into Batocera as Steam is so some manual work is required.

Search for “Heroic Games Launcher” and install it.

To do so from SSH:

flatpak install com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl
batocera-flatpak-update

The Heroic Games Launcher Flatpak is bugged and will not launch correctly using the default flags. You must launch via SSH using the following command:

flatpak run com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl --no-sandbox

Heroic Games Launcher will offer two services to login to. Log in to the appropriate one (or select Manage Accounts):

Your games will appear in the Library split between Epic Games and GOG. It could take a while to download all games' information and boxart.

1. Go to Library
2. Select the game
3. Select Install

1. Select Wine Manager
2. Select the desired version of Wine to be downloaded. In order of recommendation: “Wine-GE”, “Wine-Lutris” and “Proton-GE”, the rest are older versions (some games do not work with the latest versions)

1. Go to Settings → Wine → Wine Version and select the desired version of Wine.

1. Go to Library
2. Select the downloaded Windows game
3. Go to Settings
4. Select the desired version of Wine to use for that game.

1. Go to Library
2. Select a downloaded game
3. Select PLAY NOW (Windows games require Wine to be set up first)
   • Heroic Games Launcher will say “Opening the Game…” and then eventually “Playing (STOP)”

     Games may take a while to initially launch as they need to compile shaders for your hardware.

4. If playing a Windows game, confirm the Wine installation dialogue box.
5. Game start!

1. Go to Library
2. Select an installed game
3. Select Tools at the top of the window
4. Select Uninstall

Other options can be found in Settings → Other.