Figured out how to add games tied to the Epic Games Launcher as non-steam games!!

[LucidusAtra]

I FINALLY found the answer to this question! I've been searching. If a game (For Example, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, or Kingdom Hearts) is tied to the Epic Games launcher, simply adding the exe as a non steam game won't work. When you try to launch it, you'll get a message that says "please launch the game through the Epic launcher" or something to that effect. While browsing through old discussions, I found one from 2019 where a joke answer was given: "Add the Epic launcher as the non-Steam game." But it gave me an idea. What if you DID add the launcher as the non-steam game, and then use command line arguments to have it launch the specific game you want? Are there even command line arguments for the Epic Games launcher?

I didn't find any documented online, but I decided to do some experimentation of my own.

If you go into the Epic launcher and create a desktop shortcut for your game, you can go into the shortcut's properties, and you'll see that the "file" it's referencing isn't a file at all. It's a URL. For example, the shortcut to Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is actually a link to the URL "com.epicgames.launcher://apps/6f43ab8025ad42d18510aa91e9eb688b%3Aa763ee8aa3ab407a811bf075ef0b4c58%3Ab25ba0f04dc9434f8a04a062719e7aa7?action=launch&silent=true"

Because of this, trying to add one of these shortcuts as a non-steam game confuses Steam. Clever! BUT! If you add the Epic Games Launcher exe ITSELF as a non steam game, and just paste this URL into the command line arguments (Launch Options in the game's Properties, where you can also edit the game's name and library icon) just like that, your Epic game will be launched through Steam. Magic! You can add multiple instances of the Epic Launcher and rename them in properties/paste in different launch options to add multiple different games.

[DeOptNo]

I got it working by first adding the epid games launcher, putting the URL from the shortcut in the launch options, then putting the same URL into the TARGET spot and it launched, with the fps counter and steam overlay.

[👁️‍🗨antiparti]

Followed op's post and everything worked!
Now I can launch Alan Wake 2 from steam.
thx

[Dekaido]

you are a saint and a legend. To clarify for controller support to work
I set my target to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\Launcher\Portal\Binaries\Win64\EpicGamesLauncher.exe"
kept my Start in selection to the same as my game location (found in properties when I've launched the game through epic.)
example "C:\Program Files\Epic Games\ReturnToMoria\Moria\Binaries\Win64"
then added the url found for the desktop shortcut epic can make to the Launch options.
I've spent too long trouble shooting and your post was buried in search results, but this s**t tumbles my Gourd

[mayor of now]

I had previously followed a tutorial that gave me this slug to pass as an argument to EpicGamesLauncher:

> fn:7f17fff066664078ba6a244f4b31644f:09e442f830a341f698b4da42abd98c9b

It worked for a while, but lately it's been instead opening a poorly styled screen in the Epic Launcher that says I don't have permission to open that title. It's so off-brand that the first time I opened it I wondered if it was some sort of malware popup.

I replaced that slug with simply `Fortnite` as Nyako illustrated above, and now my non-Steam game is working again.

Thanks!

[76561199506644524]

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[mayor of now]

Update:

With a fresh install, I'm still seeing "Application not owned" errors whether I use the slug or `Fortnite`. I'll have to investigate further.

[Nanami]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.