Rare VS minigalaxy

Compare Rare vs minigalaxy and see what are their differences.

Rare

GUI for legendary. An Epic Games Launcher open source alternative (by RareDevs)

minigalaxy

A simple GOG client for Linux (by sharkwouter)
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Rare minigalaxy
62 64
591 1,044
3.0% -
9.7 7.4
23 days ago about 2 months ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.
  • Bug price for Warhammer 3 only in Indonesia
    3 projects | /r/indonesia | 4 Apr 2023
  • Warhammer 40k: Gladius - Turn based 4X, free on Epic games right now!
    3 projects | /r/4Xgaming | 22 Mar 2023
    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
  • [Epic Games] Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (Free/100%)
    3 projects | /r/GameDeals | 22 Dec 2022
    Personally I use legendary which is basically just a super-lightweight commandline launcher that also handles stuff like setting up wine if running on linux. But if you don't want quite that bare-bones, there's also a couple of GUI wrappers: rare is a fairly lightweight native app that feels pretty snappy, though it can be a bit unpolished in places, and heroic, which is an electron app and so a bit more heavyweight. but more of a direct drop-in replacement.
  • Mullvad in GTA Online
    3 projects | /r/mullvadvpn | 8 Nov 2022
    There's also a 3rd-party Epic client Legendary which has a couple of GUIs like Rare and Heroic, which may work differently with mullvad's split-tunnel.
  • Is there a current list somewhere listing current game launchers & which stores they support ?
    5 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 4 Aug 2022
    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
  • An Epic Failure (Epic Games Launcher issues from my perspective)
    2 projects | /r/pcgaming | 10 Apr 2022
    Legendary, Rare and Heroic are good alternatives.
  • Just gonna leave this here
    2 projects | /r/pcmasterrace | 12 Feb 2022
    Also if you don't want to use cmd commands you can find some tools that give you a simple interface, I made one for windows and there is another one called rare that supports windows and linux.
  • An actual fix for the insanely slow download/update speeds of Epic Games Launcher (Re-uploaded)
    3 projects | /r/EpicGamesPC | 5 Feb 2022
    Alternatively, you can use another launcher. This is what I do and have zero download issues. https://github.com/derrod/legendary https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare
  • How to run the Epic version of "Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition"?
    5 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 17 Jan 2022
    - "Rare" - native Python+QT5 based (pyqt) https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare
  • Easy Anti-Cheat not as simple as expected for Proton and Steam Deck
    2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 9 Jan 2022
    Ah, yeah the software and software support is miles better. Epic Games Store is frankly poorly made software. I thus recommend everyone who wishes to run it to instead run Heroic or Rare instead, regardless of OS.

minigalaxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of minigalaxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Rare and minigalaxy you can also consider the following projects:

HeroicGamesLauncher - A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.

lutris - Lutris desktop client

legendary - Legendary - A free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher

HeroicGamesLauncher - A Native GUI Epic Games Launcher for Linux [Moved to: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher]

HeroicGamesLauncher - A Native GUI Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac.

GameHub - All your games in one place

xenia - Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

lgogdownloader - LGOGDownloader is unofficial downloader to GOG.com for Linux users. It uses the same API as the official GOG Galaxy.

Wine-Builds - Wine builds (Vanilla, Staging, TkG and Proton)

gogrepo - Python-based tool for downloading all your GOG.com game and bonus collections to your local computer for full offline enjoyment.