Despite the Epic Games Store not offering Linux support at all, it still seems to be somewhat popular with Linux users as the unofficial Heroic Games Launcher hit a big downloads milestone. Taking into account that the project does now also support Windows and macOS, it was originally Linux-only up until July 2021 where it gained initial support for the others.
In early November developer Flávio F Lima noted Heroic had hit 100,000 downloads, and less than a month later it's hit another 10,000+ according to the GitHub project page.
Considering how many free games have been given out by Epic, it's not exactly surprising that quite a lot of Linux users have looked to Heroic to make things easier to manage. Still a shame that Epic don't support their store directly but I can personally confirm how well Heroic works as a way to download and get into games, as long as you don't mind them all running through a compatibility layer unsupported.
Nice to see an open source project like this doing so well.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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