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Rare
A frontend for legendary, the open source Epic Games Launcher alternative
Rare is a graphical interface for Legendary, a command line alternative to Epic Games launcher, written in PyQt5
![Logo](https://github.com/RareDevs/Rare/blob/main/rare/resources/images/Rare_nonsquared.png?raw=true)
Logo by @MultisampledNight available here, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Why Rare?
- Runs natively, and supports most of the major platforms
- Gets out of your way when you don't need it, allowing you to enjoy your games
- Tries to be as lightweight as we can make it while still offering a feature-full experience
- Integrates seamlessly with legendary as both projects are developed in Python
- Packages, packages everywhere
Reporting issues
If you run into any issues, you can report them by creating an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/RareDevs/Rare/issues/new/choose
When reporting issues, it is helpful to also include the logs with your issue. You can find the longs in the following locations depending on your operating system
OS | Path |
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Windows | C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Rare\Rare\cache\logs |
Linux | /home/<username>/.cache/Rare/Rare/logs |
masOS | /Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Rare/Rare/logs |
In these folders you will find files named like below
Rare_23-12-19--11-14.log
These are the logs for the main Rare application. As such are importand when Rare itself is crashing.
RareLauncher_f4e0c1dff48749fa9145c1585699e276_23-12-17--19-53.log
These are the logs for each of the games you run through Rare. Rare uses a separate instance of itself to launch games, and these are the logs of that instance.
If you don't have a GitHub account or you just want to chat, you also can contact us on Discord: https://discord.gg/YvmABK9YSk
Installation
Windows
There is an .msi
installer available in releases page.
There is also a semi-portable .zip
archive in releases page that lets you run Rare without installing it.
Important: On recent version of Windows you should have MSVC 2015 installed, you can get it from here
Packages
-
Rare is available as a Winget package. You can install Rare with the following one-liner:
winget install rare
-
Rare is available as a Chocolatey package. You can install Rare with the following one-liner:
choco install rare
Linux
Flatpak
Rare is available as a flatpak. See rare.
Install it via:
flatpak install flathub io.github.dummerle.rare
Run it via:
flatpak run io.github.dummerle.rare
AppImage
Available in releases page.
Arch based
There are some AUR packages available:
Debian based
- DUR package: rare
.deb
file in releases page
Note:
- pypresence is an optional package. You can install it from DUR or with pip.
- Some icons might look strange on Debian based distributions. The official python3-qtawesome package is too old.
macOS
There is a .dmg
file available in releases page.
Note: When you launch it, you will see an error, that the package is from an unknown source. You have to enable it
manually in Settings -> Security and Privacy
. Otherwise, Gatekeeper will block Rare from running.
You can also use pip
.
Latest development version
In the actions tab you can find packages for the latest commits.
Note: They might be unstable and likely broken.
Installation via pip (platform independent)
Execute pip install Rare
for all users, or pip install Rare --user
for the current user only.
- Linux, macOS and FreeBSD: 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, alternatively you can create them in the settings.
Note about $PATH:
Depending on your operating system and the python
distribution, the following paths might need to be in your
environment's PATH
OS | Path |
---|---|
Windows | <python_installation_folder>\Scripts |
Linux | /home/<username>/.local/bin |
masOS | /Users/<username>/Library/Python/3.x/bin |
Run from source
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/RareDevs/Rare
- Change your working directory to the project folder:
cd Rare
- Run
pip install -r requirements.txt
to install all required dependencies.- If you want to be able to use the automatic login and Discord pypresence, run
pip install -r requirements-full.txt
- If you are on Arch you can run
sudo pacman --needed -S python-wheel python-setuptools python-pyqt5 python-qtawesome python-requests python-orjson
yay -S legendary
- If you are on FreeBSD you have to install py39-qt5 from the packages
sudo pkg install py39-qt5
- If you want to be able to use the automatic login and Discord pypresence, run
- Run
python3 -m rare
Contributing
There are several options to contribute.
- If you know Python and PyQt, you can implement new features (Some ideas are in the projects tab).
- You can translate the application in your language: Check our transifex page for that.
More information is available in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Screenshots
Game covers | Vertical list |
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Game details | Game settings |
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Downloads | Application settings |
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