Heroic launcher lutris and bottles

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

What is the best launcher in your opinion.?
Bottles: Basically the jack of all trades.
You can play all your launchers and also with the cloud saved versions of your windows device.
Negatives: buggy and sometimes i get the message that i haven’t enough space when im installing a game from the gog launcher even if i have enough

Heroic launcher
Very good looking launcher….
Negatives:G ames work or not so it’s a hit or miss. Gothic 2 for example doesnt start. Also you don’t have access to your gog cloud saves and you have to start from scratch

Lutris
Well everything is in English even installing a game and to run it on another language is a pain the b. At least the last time i tried. And you can’t probably use the official cloud saves as well

[Nathan]

Heroic for Epic and GOG libraries and Lutris for everything else.

[Modern Retro Gamer (UK)]

I like Bottles. It's more 'virtual machine' like, I feel like I've got more control. Especially with older Win9X/XP games.

Lutris is great when there's a fully working ready made script to go. Great for GOG.

I got annoyed with Heroic wanting me to keep signing back into to Epic. Got Death Stranding for free... Got annoyed enough to delete the game. Just repurchased on Steam for half price.

Going forward, Steam for simplicity. If it's not on Steam I'll probably pass. I can wait for Steam Sales if I want a game. Can't be dealing with Epic. And the only titles I've got on GOG, bar 1 which is DosBox, I'll likely emulate on PS3 later down the line anyway.

[Bee🐝]

Heroic for GOG - don’t have an Epic account. Had very few issues with Heroic and it’s regularly updated.

Lutris for Amazon, Uplay and EA or rather for when the EA app actually works.

Special mention: ScummVM for all games which supports it. That includes games available on Steam - just launch those puppies through it as well.

I have Bottles but haven’t really found a need to use it, yet.

[eighthgrader]

What is the best launcher in your opinion.?

Best launcher is no launcher. Steam (being a launcher itself) has everything needed.

[End of line]

My experience has been,

heroic, just works, no fuss no muss, only gog and epic stores however (if they add support for EA and batlenet it would be easily the only launcher needed after emudeck)

Lutris, i have had it work, but it was janky, finicky and sometimes oddly functional a pain in the arse to get to work compared to heroic. so finicky i gave up and re-bought the two games i wanted to play via steam just because they would randomly stop working via EA and Lutris.

bottles, fine if you your more into linux, but if you want fire and forget setup, not so good.