Epic Games

Universe installs and updates your Epic Games library itself. It takes Epic’s Windows builds, so every Epic game runs through Proton or Wine. The store is off until you press Y on Epic Games in Settings › Stores.

Signing in

1. On Settings › Stores › Epic Games, pick Get a sign-in link, and open it from its QR code or its address.
2. Sign in to Epic. You end on a page of text that holds an authorizationCode.
3. Pick Enter the code and enter that code, or the whole page.

Signing in again with another account switches to it.

Your Epic games

The first listing can take up to 15 minutes. It leaves out the games that install through another store, such as EA’s or Ubisoft’s.

Installing, updating and uninstalling work as for every store. Install owned DLCs, on by default, installs the DLCs you own with each game.

Heroic’s Epic games

Once you’re signed in, the Epic games Heroic installed show under On this PC, ready for Add to library. Universe updates them from then on. Each one gets a new Wine prefix, so its saves in Heroic’s prefix stay there (Lutris and Heroic).

Cloud saves and achievements

Epic’s page in Settings › Stores turns both on or off for every Epic game, and a game’s Game settings › Epic Games card for that game alone. Achievements, on by default, show once a session has ended. Cloud saves are off by default.

A game with Easy Anti-Cheat or BattlEye gets the runtime Proton needs for it, while Anti-cheat runtimes is on.