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.

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

Debian based

There is a .deb package available from the releases page: sudo apt install ./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 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

More Information is in CONTRIBUTING.md