This is good but can we please get a native Linux client?
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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Heroic Games Launcher is a pretty smooth experience on Linux for what it’s worth. It works well for GOG, Epic, and Amazon Games.
While Heroic is great and I love it, I would be nice to have official support from GOG.
The developers of Heroic are in regular contact with GOG employees, and they also get a cut from any GOG purchase made through the Heroic client.
Perhaps that is why the client is so good.
That is interesting, may we have a source?
I don't know about regular contact but they get money when you use their link to buy via gog.
https://heroicgameslauncher.com/donate
Use our link when making purchases on GOG and support the project. Cool right?
Yes, please.
[We still strive to get as many DRM-free titles as possible on GOG, regardless of when they were first released.]
This is why I will always buy a game on GOG rather than Steam if I can.
Steam is easy and my main app. But I'm going to start shifting to GOG.
I love that they have Ultima 4 available for free. I spent SO many hours in that world. The "what kind of person are you" value judgment questions at the beginning were remarkably heavy for introspective teenage me.
I just hope they will also provide the unmodified versions for people that want to play them on original hardware.
At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.
Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.
7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it's not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.
Off the top of my head I can think of:
- Black&White
- The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
- the original Starcraft and Warcraft
- Pharaoh
- Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS "clone" exists)
- Evolva
- Syndicate
I could go on forever...
Don't they just slap a custom configured dosbox in the folder and point to it for launch? Could just strip out dosbox and have the thing.
- Myst
- Riven
- Ultima Series, including Ultima Underworld I & II
❤️❤️❤️
Ultima Online?
I probably own a significant portion of those games in my GOG account, I'll double check when I'm home
A lot of incredible games on that list.