{"id":11312,"date":"2026-08-16T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/epic-games-store-will-get-a-linux-version-sometime-soon\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:20:33","slug":"epic-games-store-will-get-a-linux-version-sometime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/epic-games-store-will-get-a-linux-version-sometime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime &#8220;soon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Epic Games recently did an AMA (Ask me anything) in the community Discord server, confirming that a Linux \/ SteamOS version of the Epic Games Store is coming. <em>I&#8217;ll file this in the &#8220;I&#8217;ll believe it when I see&#8221; it folder\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It seems there&#8217;s finally a big enough market for them to actually do it. We don&#8217;t know if this means Fortnite will actually get supported on Linux, because we&#8217;re still waiting on those tens of millions of users. You can use the officially supported GeForce NOW app for that until then.<\/p>\n<p>In the Discord AMA, a user posed the question: &#8220;Has there been any new plans about a Linux version of the launcher&#8221;, where an actual Epic Games developer replied to note it would be &#8220;soon&#8221; but not for the preview release of the upcoming Epic Games Store overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot taken from the Discord:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We also saw recently that Epic Games were hiring a Security Engineer to champion Linux anti-cheat, so it seems they have some much wider plans for Linux support overall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even though we have tools like the Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris and others to get Epic Games Store titles on Linux &#8211; official direct support is always important because it shows to game developers and gamers that Linux is a proper platform for gaming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Things are looking good, especially with GOG confirming to GamingOnLinux that work is in progress for a Linux version of GOG Galaxy too.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hidden_message\">Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games recently did an AMA (Ask me anything) in the community Discord server, confirming that a Linux \/ SteamOS version of the Epic Games Store is coming. I&#8217;ll file this in the &#8220;I&#8217;ll believe it when I see&#8221; it folder\u2026 It seems there&#8217;s finally a big enough market for them to actually do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[79,77,2067,80,459],"class_list":{"0":"post-11312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upcoming-games","8":"tag-epic","9":"tag-games","10":"tag-linux","11":"tag-store","12":"tag-version"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}