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Heroic Games Launcher

by Lunarequest

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

Broad permissions Suspicious publisher AGPL-3.0-or-later vv1.10.2
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About

Heroic is an Open Source Game Launcher for Linux, Windows and MacOS (Limited to Windows games using Wine/Crossover - tested only on Intel and on 10.14). Right now it supports launching games from the Epic Games Store using Legendary, a CLI alternative to the Epic Games Launcher. Heroic is built with Web Technologies like: TypeScript, React, NodeJS and Electron.

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • full access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • network
    --share=network

Who publishes this

Something concrete is wrong: the id claims a namespace this repository does not own, or the build does things a build should not. Flatsonar warns twice.

  • io.github.heroicgameslauncher.HeroicGamesLauncher claims the io.github.heroicgameslauncher namespace but is hosted by github.com/lunarequest and does not build the owner's code
    publisher:namespace
  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
    source:prebuilt

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.