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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 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:
Other
Install via pip
.
Packages
In releases page are AppImages for Linux and a msi file for windows available
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.
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