Alternatives to Legendary
An open-source command-line replacement for the Epic Games Launcher on Linux, macOS and Windows. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Legendary
An open-source command-line replacement for the Epic Games Launcher on Linux, macOS and Windows.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Legendary.
Heroic Games Launcher
An open-source launcher for Epic, GOG and Amazon Prime games, on Linux, Windows, macOS and the Steam Deck.
Heroic Games Launcher is a GPL-3.0 graphical launcher for Epic, GOG and Amazon Prime games with a Wine Manager, instead of a scriptable command line.
Rare
An open-source graphical front end for Legendary for managing and playing Epic Games Store titles.
Rare is an open-source graphical front end built on Legendary, adding a desktop interface for your Epic library while still depending on Legendary itself.
Epic Games Store
Epic's game storefront known for weekly free games and exclusive titles.
Epic Games Store is the official closed-source launcher with the store and weekly free games, but it runs on Windows and macOS only.
Lutris
A Linux gaming platform that installs the right emulator, Wine build or engine for each game and launches them from one place.
Lutris is a GPL-3.0 Linux client that shows Epic alongside Steam, GOG and Humble libraries with installer scripts, through a graphical interface on Linux only.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
umu-launcher
A unified launcher that runs Windows games on Linux with Proton outside of Steam.
BoilR
A tool that adds games from other launchers to your Steam library, with artwork included.
Playnite
A Windows game library manager that pulls Steam, Epic, GOG, Battle.net, Ubisoft and emulated games into one interface.
Minigalaxy
A simple open-source GOG client for downloading, installing and playing GOG games on Linux.
GOG Galaxy
DRM-free games store and unified library that also pulls in other platforms.
Wine
An open-source compatibility layer that runs Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS and BSD.
