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 | |
| 602 | 1,049 | |
| 3.8% | - | |
| 9.7 | 6.9 | |
| 7 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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
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.
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What's the best or easiest frontend for installing games from GOG?
Personally I use mini galaxy. https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/
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GoG survey: Time to nag them about Linux support
Minigalaxy is great for native apps. Lutris is hit or miss for wine/DVXK.
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This is goodbye, but is it forever?
E.g. Minigalaxy offers many of GoG Galaxys features (Tagging /u/anevilduck here in case he doesn't know it) and only has around 13500 lines of Code.
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Valve has set the bar pretty high, but It'd be nice if anyone else at least did the bare minimum
The official client isn't, but there is a 3rd party one available for Linux https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy
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How to Install And Play GOG Games on Linux With Minigalaxy – A Simple GOG Client for Linux - Wine
https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/
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Thinking of switching to linux
So long as you have a Vulkan capable GPU, you should be able to get almost all GOG games working. You could use Lutris with GOG Galaxy, Lutris with GOG offline installers or MiniGalaxy.
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I'm thinking of changing over to Linux exclusively for a gaming exclusive set up. Is this sensible or should I remain on Windows?
HeroicGamesLauncher / MiniGalaxy: Launcher alternative for the EpicGamesLauncher / GoG.
- Minigalaxy version 1.2.2 released
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Playnite 10 has been released. Open source video game library manager.
Besides there are other projects like https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy that has some of their coding from PlayNite and of their own to work on Linux and there are Tutorials like https://playnite.link/forum/thread-1156.html to make it work nonetheless. Also thanks to Steam's Proton layering, everything is easier at Linux gaming side.
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
awesome-gog-galaxy - A list of GOG Galaxy 2.0 integrations and upcoming features
HeroicGamesLauncher - A Native GUI Epic Games Launcher for Linux [Moved to: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher]
GameHub - All your games in one place
HeroicGamesLauncher - A Native GUI Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac.
easy-legendary - An easy-to-use tool to replace Epic Games Launcher.
ScreamAPI - Legit DLC Unlocker for Epic Online Services
xenia - Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project