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1 day ago

Literally sitting with Lutris in front of me downloading a game from GOG right now. Can Heroic Games not handle it themselves like Lutris? Seems easy enough for other FOSS projects to do, I'd rather GOG continue focusing on ensuring the games run on modern hardware, and acquiring licenses to good old games, rather than now expanding the support for their already mediocre launcher.

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dundarious  1 day ago

Heroic works perfectly, in a manner identical to Lutris (from a user perspective). I tested both several years ago and have been a happy Heroic user since.

However, neither support 2 key features of GOG Galaxy:

1. cloud saves

2. achievements

These are 2 of the most significant features of competitors like Steam, IMO, so missing them for GOG on Linux is unfortunate.

  • izacus  1 day ago

    That's simply not true at all, Heroic Launcher supports both cloud saves and achievements. I've been using them for a long time on Deck now.

    Please don't lie :/

    • Uvix  1 day ago

      Heroic's cloud save support is flaky; I've had it upload saves to the wrong path so Galaxy on another machine can't download them.

      As for achievements, I wouldn't say it's had support for "a long time"; they were added in August 2024 (v2.15.1).

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    • dundarious  1 day ago

      I was mixing up the fact that "Linux native games do not support GOG's Cloud Saves feature" (direct quote from the app itself), with a general lack of support. Given it says "Use the Windows version instead", I am quite wrong, it clearly does support them for Windows games.

      If you think that's a "lie", consult a dictionary.

      As for whether my general point stands, I think it's a reasonable inference that if GOG Galaxy supported Linux, it would support Linux games and cloud saves for those games, and only then would Heroic and the like be able to implement such a feature. I could be wrong, as it depends on details I don't know, and I'm just making an educated guess.

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sitkack  1 day ago

Exactly, or open the protocol and let the community write it.

Third option is to ensure the downloader runs under proton, which I think it does but haven’t tried.