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

Execute pip install Rare for all users Or pip install Rare --user for only one user

Note: On Linux must be /home/user/.local/bin in PATH

Windows Simple

Download Rare.exe from the releases page and place it somewhere in PATH

Note Using the exe file could cause errors

Linux

Arch based

There are some AUR packages available:

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 use pacman you can run sudo 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 run set 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
Settings (Legendary and games)
Sync Cloud Saves
Translations (English and German)

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.
If you are a designer, you can add Stylesheets or create a logo or a banner
You can translate the application

Note: Pull Requests please to "dev" branch

More Information is in CONTRIBUTING.md

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