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Heroic game files (feddit.org)

submitted 2 months ago by caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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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?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago

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?

[–] rotopenguin 2 points 2 months ago

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.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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