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Despite the Epic Games Store not offering Linux support at all, it still seems to be somewhat popular with Linux users as the unofficial Heroic Games Launcher hit a big downloads milestone. Taking into account that the project does now also support Windows and macOS, it was originally Linux-only up until July 2021 where it gained initial support for the others.

In early November developer Flávio F Lima noted Heroic had hit 100,000 downloads, and less than a month later it's hit another 10,000+ according to the GitHub project page.

Considering how many free games have been given out by Epic, it's not exactly surprising that quite a lot of Linux users have looked to Heroic to make things easier to manage. Still a shame that Epic don't support their store directly but I can personally confirm how well Heroic works as a way to download and get into games, as long as you don't mind them all running through a compatibility layer unsupported.

Nice to see an open source project like this doing so well.

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tpau Dec 3, 2021
Quoting: PhlebiacHave you seen GameHub? It seems promising.
There are too many projects out there so i haven't heard of that specific one yet.
Hopefully developer resources aren't spread too thin because of Not Invented Here Syndrome.
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