How to get your Epic Games library on Steam Deck

Last year, Steam’s parent company, Valve Corporation, launched a dedicated handheld device called the Steam Deck. It is a portable computer running over SteamOS with AMD Zen 2 CPU where you can access your Steam library anytime. However, during the initial days people took time to become accustomed to that deck but later enjoyed it a lot. Its performance makes people want to play other library games.

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At the beginning, there was no access to other types of games available on the Steam platform. Later on, companies developed emulators that run any other games library on the Steam deck. There are plenty of games libraries at our disposal, like Xbox Cloud, PlayStation, and many others. But gamers want epic games. So here we will guide you to run epic games on Steam deck.

How to get your Epic Games library on Steam Deck

A plethora of games can be found in the Steam library without a doubt. The Epic Games library, however, contains a few keen titles that always appeal to players, whether they are playing on PC, Mobile, or here on the Steam platform. You will be surprised to know that today we have numerous emulators to run Epic Games library on Steam deck. We found a dominant emulator called Proton that makes getting Epic Games Library on Steam so much easier. So, without any further delay, let’s look on below instructions.

Phase 1: Install ProtonUp On Your Steam Deck

• Simply, Hit the power button and scroll down to desktop mode.
• Then tap on desktop mode to turn your deck into PC like appearance.
• Next click on discover look like shopping bag showing on the left side of taskbar.
• Now hit STEAM + X to get the on-screen keyboard.
• Using On-Screen keyboard, type “ProtonUp” in the search bar.
• Then Install ProtonUp-Qt on your deck.
• Now hit the Application Launcher >> utlities >> Launch ProtonUp-Qt >> add version >> pick the latest version.
• Once the installation finish, do right click on steam and click on exit.

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Phase 2: Download Epic Games Launcher and install it

• On your desktop, Head to Epic Games website to download its launcher (here download windows version)
• Then open Steam >> Add game (at the bootom left) >> Add non-steam game.
• Now browse the files and select above download Epic Games launcher from it and Select add selected programme.
• On your deck, open your Steam library and scroll down to Epicgames installer.
• Then Do right click (using left trigger) on Epicgames installer .
• Nexf Go to Properties >> Comptability >> mark the option “Force the use of specific Steam play comptability tool”.
• After that, Select the most recent version of Proton and Go back to Steam library >> Hit play option.
• Lastly, Tap on install to get the Epic Games installed on your Steam deck and you are done.

Apart from Epic Games, many players want to load Heroic Games launcher on Steam. If you don’t know Heroic Games launcher is a open source GOG and Epic Games launcher for Linux, Windows and MacOS. If you are having trouble following the above method, you can follow this one. Simply follow the below instructions and install Heroic Games launcher on your Steam deck.

• Firstly, press the Steam button >> scroll down to desktop mode and get into it.
• Then head over to the discover page.
• Search for “Heroic Games Launcher” and install it on your deck.
• Now open heroic games launcher and go to settings >> general >> enable add games to Steam automatically.
• On the left side menu, log into GOG Store and Epic Games Store.
• Now click the library >> refresh library button to view the Epic games and GOG library.
• Then on the left side panel, click on wine manager and install the latest Wine-Ge and Proton-Ge.
• Once it finishes, choose a game to run >> click game art >> three dots >> check compatibility.
• Afterward, protonDB will open, where we can find the latest version of Proton.
• Now click on install >> click on wine version and select the Proton that works best for your game.
• Lastly, return to Game mode and you will see the game you have above choose has added to the Steam deck.

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To Sum up, Installing any other stores game on Steam deck is a not big task that people thing. I bet that thing that people earlier assume that we can only Steam games on Steam deck. But the truth is in front of you, as you can play both Epic Games Store and GOG Store games on Steam deck. All thanks to emulators that made such way to run these store libraries on SteamOS. I hope you got the right way to install Epic Games Library on Steam deck. If still anyuser have query then ask them below.

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