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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. Sometimes it is not possible to download games and sometimes the app crashes. In this case please use pip
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 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 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.
Note Mac should work too, but I have no Mac and I can't test it.
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
- 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
More Information is in CONTRIBUTING.md