Rare

A frontend for legendary, the open source Epic Games Launcher alternative

Rare is a GUI for Legendary, a command line alternative to Epic Games launcher. 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.

Linux: execute rare in your terminal.

Windows: execute pythonw -m rare in cmd

It is possible to create a desktop link, or a start menu link. Execute the command above with --desktop-shortcut or --startmenu-shortcut option

Note: On Linux must be /home/user/.local/bin in PATH and on Windows must be PythonInstallationDirectory\Scripts in PATH.

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

Other

Install via pip.

Packages

In releases page are AppImages for Linux and a msi file for windows available

Latest packages

In actions you find packages for the latest commits.

Note: they might be unstable

Run from source

1. Clone the repo with Submodule: git clone https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare --recurse-submodules.
2. 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
3. Run python3 rare

Why Rare?

• Rare only uses ~50MB of RAM which is much less than the electron based HeroicGamesLauncher uses.
• Rare supports all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac) unlike the alternatives.

Features

• Launch, install and uninstall games
• Authentication(Import from existing installation or via Browser)
• Download progress bar and queue
• Settings (Legendary and games)
• Sync Cloud Saves
• Translations (English, German and French)
• Create desktop shortcut for each game (Note: not supported on Mac yet)
• Display rating from ProtonDB for each game

Planned Features

• 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: Check transifex to translate Rare in your language

More Information is in CONTRIBUTING.md

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