Rare
GUI for legendary. An Epic Games Launcher open source alternative (by RareDevs)
athenaeum
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Rare
Posts with mentions or reviews of Rare.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
- Rare Garlic Crab (Hotfix 6) Released
- Rare (Hotfix 2) Release (EGS Client)
- Rare EGS Client: More fixes for 1.10
- Bug price for Warhammer 3 only in Indonesia
- Rare (EGS Client) has a Hotfix with 1.9.91
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Warhammer 40k: Gladius - Turn based 4X, free on Epic games right now!
Note there is an open source alternative to the epic launcher in case you don't trust it : Legendary (command line based) https://github.com/derrod/legendary Rare (standalone user friendly frontend for Legendary) https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare Heroic (another user friendly standalone frontend for legendary) https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
- Rare has a First Beta for 1.10 with Library UI changes
athenaeum
Posts with mentions or reviews of athenaeum.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-04.
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Is there a current list somewhere listing current game launchers & which stores they support ?
Flathub — Central Flatpak repository, has small but growing game section. https://flathub.org/apps/category/Game || flatpak, discover, gnome-software GOG.com — DRM-free game store. https://www.gog.com || lgogdownloaderAUR, wyvernAUR, minigalaxyAUR itch.io — Indie game store. https://itch.io || itch-setup-binAUR Legendary — A free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher. https://github.com/derrod/legendary || legendaryAUR Heroic Games Launcher — A GUI for legendary, an open-source alternative for the Epic Games Launcher. https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher || heroic-games-launcher-binAUR Rare — Another GUI for legendary, based on PyQt5. https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare || rareAUR Lutris — Open gaming platform for Linux. Gets games from GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Uplay and many other sources. Lutris utilizes various runners to launch the games with fully customizable configuration options. https://lutris.net || lutris Steam — Digital distribution and communications platform developed by Valve. https://store.steampowered.com || steam Athenaeum — A libre replacement to Steam. https://gitlab.com/librebob/athenaeum || athenaeum-gitAUR Play.it — Automates the build of native packages. Also supports Wine, DOSBox and ScummVM games. https://www.dotslashplay.it/ || play.itAUR Bottles — Open-Source wine and proton prefix manager. Run windows software and games. https://usebottles.com/ || bottlesAUR
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Searching a game I can play with my kids on Linux
I remember using Athenaeum. It has a ton of FOSS games and manages them for you. It's particularly good at OpenArena and FreeDOOM.
- Add KeeperRL to Athenaeum?
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Open Source Steam Client?
Maybe this? https://gitlab.com/librebob/athenaeum
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Any sane Playnite alternative on Linux?
Athenaeum
- Athenaeum v2.3 is out, with big new features including a server browser!
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Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II but has significantly more variety and depth to it. Works on Linux, macOS and other operating systems.
If you like libre games we're developing a steam-like platform just for them. Come check it out https://gitlab.com/librebob/athenaeum
- Athenaeum, the libre steam alternative is back with a version 2.0!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Rare and athenaeum you can also consider the following projects:
HeroicGamesLauncher - A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.
steam-for-linux - Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client
legendary - Legendary - A free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher
steam - ☁️ Python package for interacting with Steam
minigalaxy - A simple GOG client for Linux
pegasus-frontend - A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection.
awesome-gog-galaxy - A list of GOG Galaxy 2.0 integrations and upcoming features
steam-buddy - A web interface for managing Steam remotely
GameHub - All your games in one place
chad_launcher
easy-legendary - An easy-to-use tool to replace Epic Games Launcher.
steam-tui - Rust TUI client for steamcmd