Hello!

I’m having a hard time finding any game files from my heroic installs.

I have three games installed, two Linux and one windows game. They all run well and the save games persist, but after looking absolutely everywhere in the file structure, I can’t find absolutely anything:

Inside /games/heroic/ there’s absolutely nothing, no prefix folder or anything, even though that’s the install path.

I haven’t been able to find it all those compatdata or whatever folders.

Could it all be buried deep inside the heroic install folder?

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    4 个月前

    That’s probably not it, but in Linux the case of filenames matter. The standard folder for Heroic installs is ~/Games/Heroic and not /games/heroic. Make sure you are looking in the right folder.

    ~ means your home folder, so on the Steam Deck that would be /home/deck.

    A slash / at the beginning indicates your system drive. While it is not impossible to configure Heroic to install games there I doubt this is the case unless you know what you are doing.

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    4 个月前

    Click on the game in your library. On the game page click the three dots menu in the top right. Click Browse Files.

    • caesaravgvstvs@feddit.orgOP
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      4 个月前

      It doesn’t work 😭

      The path shows /games/heroic/silksong/ for example, but when I click it it doesn’t open and when I navigate to that folder it’s empty

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Do you need to open the folder as administrator (right click folder in Dolphin, click “open as administrator”)?

        Seems unlikely, but do you have “show hidden files” checked off?

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    Heroic’s installed as a Flatpak, right? Any path that flatpak doesn’t actually allow out of the sandbox is going to be inside the sandbox.

    find ~/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl -iname games

  • caesaravgvstvs@feddit.orgOP
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    4 个月前

    That’s probably it, i don’t know what I’m doing lol

    I’ll check again with this suggestion, I’m convinced, I’m just digging in the wrong places, hopefully the lil ~ and the case will be the answer to my problems