https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher

Nice GUI now available that downloads, installs, and runs games from the Epic Games Store.

Used it for a few hours and it is pretty useful, would recommend reading a tutorial for initial setup, here is a video that helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MadU5CX-jPA

It allows you to use whatever WINE wrapper (Or PROTON Wrapper) you would like (as long as it is in certain directories)

and it is being expanded to include other stores in the future and functionality to grab the free games on Epic.

Right now the main restriction is games that use Anti-Cheat protocols that are not Linux friendly.

IT is also cross compatible with the Legendary script so it can recognize games installed using Legendary and Vice Versa.

Yes it seems nice.

I'm using plain legendary and grabbing the free games through a browser. I stopped using the client through wine around the time they reported a memory leak and abnormal resource utilisation. This was subsequently fixed, but I've stayed with the commandline tool regardless.

Heroic seems flashy yet also bulky, so I'm not going to go for it at this time. But if it keeps improving at that pace, I might eventually.

Bumping as this project has now expanded to become multi-platform offering Windows and Mac support.

You can't download them without any launcher at all for the same reason you can't with Steam (no web provided offline installers). Legendary is a command line one though.

When I was on Steam from 2019 to mid-2020, I could use Steamcmd to download the games I owned.

Legendary is the equivalent of that though it describes itself as "Legendary is an open-source game launcher" (ie, a "command line launcher"). Whether people feel these are just utilities and not proper launchers, or are still launchers despite being command line is I guess up for debate. I just used the words of how they describe themselves.

The recent 2.2 series added basic support for GoG as well in case someone is intrested :)

Was playing around with it yesterday, still a little buggy but they have been making a lot of progress with it.