EricLauncher
A very bare-bones launcher for Epic Games Store games that have already been installed via the official launcher. Designed for Windows and written in C# using .NET 8.0.
This application was written for personal usage and isn't 100% user oriented. If you're looking for something more stable, tested, reliable, featureful and/or cross-platform, check out Legendary (CLI) or Heroic Games Launcher (GUI).
This does not handle cloud save games, you may lose save data!
This is provided without any warranty, I am not responsible for your account getting banned, your save data being lost, your hard drive exploding, getting sniped at 2nd in a Battle Royale, or thermonuclear war.
Features
- Logging in to Epic Games accounts.
- Multi-account support. (specify an
--accountIdor--accountat the command line.) - Checking for Fortnite updates. (if an update is available, the game will not launch.)
- Windows and macOS support, as well as providing launch args on Linux.
- Support for at least some games. (tested with Fortnite, Borderlands 3, Death
Stranding and FUSER.)
- Including games that require ownership tokens. (in theory)
- Offline game launching. (only works on some games)
Usage
This is designed to be run from the command line, but you can drag and drop a game's primary executable onto it and it should work.
For Fortnite, the game's primary executable is always FortniteLauncher.exe
Alternatively you could make a batch file or shortcut, or create a shortcut in a launcher such as Steam - pointing to EricLauncher, with the game you want to launch as the launch arguments
Steam Usage
Add EricLauncher.exe as a non-Steam shortcut, then set the launch arguments on the shortcut to be the path to your game's executable.
Command Line Usage
Usage: EricLauncher.exe [game executable path or verb] (options) (game arguments)
Options:
--accountId [id] - use a specific Epic Games account ID to sign in.
--account [username] - use a specific Epic Games account username to sign in.
--setDefault - when used with either account/accountId, sets the default account.
--heroic - loads the game's manifest from Heroic Games Launcher instead of Epic.
--manifest [path] - loads an Epic Games Launcher manifest file from the specified path.
--noManifest - don't check the local Epic Games Launcher install folder for the manifest.
--stayOpen - keeps EricLauncher open in the background until the game is closed.
--dryRun - goes through the Epic Games login flow, but does not launch the game.
--offline - skips the Epic Games login flow, to launch the game in offline mode.
Verbs:
logout - Logs out of Epic Games.