Rare

Rare 1.12.0

GUI for legendary. An Epic Games Launcher open source alternative

  • By UNKNOWN
  • Open Source
  • Updated Dec 9, 2025
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About Rare

Rare is a graphical interface for Legendary, a command line alternative to Epic Games launcher, based on PyQt5

What's new in 1.12.0

What's Changed

New Features

- Add the ability to set Tags for games. There are four predefined tags favorite, backlog, completed
and hidden. You can also add your own custom ones. These tags can be searched for in the search
bar by prefixing the tag with ::, for example ::completed. The favorites and hidden tags are also
available as filters.
- Updated the main tab bar to include an Integration tab, removed the drop down menu from the
library's header and re-ordered the tabs. The account button is is replaced with a tab widget that
shows the drop down menu on click.
- Added a selection setting for the prefix to use when using Proton. The Shared option uses a common
prefix and the Isolated option uses a game specific one. Or you can set a Custom one.
- Added Steam AppID selector, useful to facilitate fixes when using custom Protons with protonfixes.
- Added option to use per-game shader cache directories when using Wine/Proton.
- Added configuration widget for DXVK_CONFIG env variable.
- Added configuration widget for DXVK_NVAPI_DRS_SETTINGS.
- Added automated workarounds/settings for some games.
- Enabled the launcher's console window by default on Linux and updated the Terminate and Kill
buttons to work properly.
- Updated how the Move dialog, and move in general works to create a sub-directory to move files
into.
- Improved input validation routines in a lot of cases.
- Support downloading games with signed chunks and reading downloaded file segments from disk to
reduce memory requirements.

Minor Changes

  • Resolve cover image updates in parallel, improves loading responsiveness.
  • Improved performance when filtering and ordering the library views.
  • Split settings to game (universal) and compatibility (non-Windows) settings.
  • Wrappers can now be disabled without being removed from the wrapper chain.
  • Grouped Wine and Proton compatibility tool configuration.
  • Added queue worker to visualize syncing saves to the cloud on the main interface.
  • Exclude Android games from the library views by default, add specialized filter for them.
  • Add a field in the dxvk/mangohud settings to display the effective value of their environemnt
  • variable.
  • Added a static image for Epic Online Services Overlay icon.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed save path resolution to account for changed wine prefix in the settings.
  • Fixed library filters and ordering resetting after search/install/uninstall. …

Full release notes »

Technical details

PublisherUNKNOWN
AuthorDummerle
Version1.12.0
Release date2025-12-09
LicenseGPL-3.0
Installer typemsi
Architecturex64
Package IDDummerle.Rare

Links & install command

Install Rare from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=Dummerle.Rare -e

epic-gamesepic-games-launcherfrontendgames

Older versions

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