Once born as a total reference point for anyone interested in retro video games (good old not surprisingly), nowadays GOG is a very interesting videogame market, where it is possible to find exclusive titles or quality independent productions. The company, subsidized by CD Projekt Red, over the years has pursued a whole path of quality and DRM-free games, belonging to the most diverse eras: perfect titles to be played on Steam Deck. Much similar speech can be done for Epic Games: the company of Tim Sweeney, in fact, after the mammoth success of his battle royale Fortnite has decided to challenge Valve by proposing a own marketplace, also somehow compatible with Steam Deck.

The new portable console from Valve (or the microcomputer with integrated controllers, if we want to be picky about the definitions) is truly an interesting machine and has all the features necessary to make fans of old video games happy. The nature open ended of the platform created by Valve allows enthusiasts to install on Steam Deck video games also coming from different shopsGOG and Epic Games Launcher included.

We have a guide that can help you install non-Steam games if it is of interest to you.

Let’s see how to do it in this article to install GOG games on Steam Deck to then be able to play in complete mobility.

How to install GOG and Epic games on Steam Deck using Heroic Games Launcher

A preliminary note: it is possible to install GOG games (or other launchers) only on the internal memory by Steam Deck, without being able to log in to the space of any microSD cards you hate external storage drives.

This means that it is a good idea to make sure you have enough space on your own SSD eMMC / Nvme before moving on to installing the games.

In this specific case to be able to install the GOG / Epic Games Launcher games safely on Steam Deck we will get help from Heroic, a particular Launcher third party available for free from Flathub (a third party app store) compatible with Flatpak.

Heroic Games Launcher is also usable from PC and it is versatile enough to satisfy even those who want to manually transfer files from computer to Deck.

Let’s see together what you need to do to be able to install GOG games on Steam Deck

1. First you have to activate Steam Deck desktop mode
2. We press the button STEAM on the left side of the console
3. From the open drop-down menu we reach the item on / off
4. From here we select the item Switch to desktop mode; alternatively we hold down the Steam Deck power button and select from the items Switch to desktop mode to do first.
5. Let’s click on the application Explore on the desktop; if we do not find it, look for it in the application bar or in the list of all available applications, under the system category
6. Open the Explore application, write the text string on the search bar (available at the top left): Heroic Games Launcher
7. In the list of results we look for the Heroic Games Launcher entry and click on the small button install present on the screen.

At this point we will have installed Heroic Games Launcher (and consequently an easy way to access the games of other launchers) within the Steam Deck.Indeed, to be precise, within the Steam Deck desktop mode; for maximum convenience it is necessary to be able to access this particular launcher also from the portable mode of the platform.

How to play GOG / Epic Games Launcher games from Steam Deck portable mode

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In order to use Heroic Games Launcher within the portable mode of Steam Deck it is necessary to bind to tell the operating system to treat the application as a non-Steam game.Those who use the Valve launcher on PC, in fact, will surely know that there is a procedure for import within the library the titles that you do not own on Steam, like this to use the gamepad drivers or other functions to your advantage.

In this case just do the same by designating the launcher as a game.

Always having the foresight to have the Steam Deck in desktop mode, you must follow this procedure:

1. Let’s open Steam by clicking on the appropriate icon
2. We click on the item games in the menu bar at the top of the screen
3. From the drop-down menu we click on add non-Steam game
4. A window will appear on the screen with a long list of applications and their respective paths; we look for among these theHeroic Games Launcher
5. We check the box next to the name of the application and then click on add the chosen programs

At this point we can restart Steam Deck in portable mode; we browse through the categories until we find the item “Non-Steam games”.It will be there that we will find the Heroic Games Launcher program, even without an icon and description.Once the launcher is open we can use it to install any GOG / Epic Games Launcher title among those present in the library of your account.

The only one problem known of Heroic Games Launcher and its have no database with, registered, the incompatibility of various video games.For Epic Games Launcher this is not a problem, the vast majority of the titles proposed are recent, while for GOG the speech is more complex.THE older video games hardly provided for the use of a joypad as a control system and unless you connect your mouse and keyboard to the Steam Deck (which, fortunately, is possible) you risk not being able to play many things.

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