Legendary, the free and open source Epic Games Launcher, has moved to a new organisation

Legendary, the open source launcher that powers the Epic Games integration in the likes of the Heroic Games Launcher has switched hands to keep it going.

If you've used Heroic Games and logged into Epic Games on it and downloaded anything, you've used Legendary behind the scenes. Legendary itself can be used standalone via the command line but has no full GUI so most people likely use it via Heroic's full integration.

Unfortunately, as life happens, the creator hasn't had enough time for it and so they've done the great thing to move it over to an organisation on GitHub to allow other contributors to keep improving it easily.

Writing it a post on X/Twitter, the original creator posted to say:

It's no secret that I have been busy for a few years and not been able to put much time into Legendary. As a result, I've agreed to move the repository to an organisation and hand over the project to existing active contributors to the Heroic fork:

https://github.com/legendary-gl/legendary

I hope this will allow the project to gain momentum again and finally ship much needed bug fixes and improvements that have already existed in forks such as the Heroic one. I'd love to come back to it one of these days, but right now that seems unlikely.

Nice to see a smooth hand-over of such a useful project.