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Rare
A frontend for legendary, the open source Epic Games Launcher alternative
Rare is a GUI for Legendary, a command line aternative to Epic Games launcher. It is currently considered beta software. You will probably run into issues, so it is recommend to make a backup. If you run into an issue, please report it by creating an issue on github or on Discord: https://discord.gg/YvmABK9YSk
Installation
Installation via pip (recommend)
Execute pip install Rare
for all users Or pip install Rare --user
for only one user. Then execute rare
in your terminal or cmd
Note: On Linux must be /home/user/.local/bin
in PATH and on Windows must be PythonInstallationDirectory\Scripts
in PATH.
Windows Simple
Download Rare.exe from the releases page and execute it.
Note: Using the exe file could cause errors with Windows Defender or other Anti Virus
Linux
Arch based
There are some AUR packages available:
- rare - for stable releases
- rare-git - for the latest features, which are not in a stable release
- rare-dev - dev branch: latest development features. This could be unstable
Debian based
There is a .deb
package available from the releases page: sudo dpkg –i Rare.deb
Other
Install via pip
.
Run from source
- Run
pip install -r requirements.txt
to get dependencies. If you usepacman
you can runsudo pacman --needed -S python-wheel python-setuptools python-pyqt5 python-qtawesome python-requests python-pillow
- For unix operating systems run
sh start.sh
. For windows runset PYTHONPATH=%CD% && python Rare
Why Rare?
- Rare uses much less RAM than electron based apps such as HeroicGL and EpicGL which allows the games to run better.
- Rare supports all major platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS) unlike the alternatives.
Features
- Launch, install and uninstall games
- Authentication(Import from existing installation and via Browser)
- Download progress bar, queue
- Settings (Legendary and games)
- Sync Cloud Saves
- Translations (English, German and French)
Planned Features
- Offline mode
- More Translations (Need help)
- More Information about Games More planned features are in projects
Contributing
There are more options to contribute.
- If you can Python and PyQt you can implement new Features (Some ideas are in Projects).
- If you are a designer, you can add Stylesheets or create a logo or a banner
- You can translate the application in your language
Note: Pull Requests please to "dev" branch
More Information is in CONTRIBUTING.md