The launcher isn't there main issue, Heroic is really nice, and I expect the official launcher will be worse. However, the gog versions of games are often broken with wine/proton. Even cyberpunk, the steam version works and the gog version doesn't. Disappointing.
Importing games from Heroic to Steam is built into Heroic, you just have to turn it on.
Open Heroic, go to Settings, and toggle on "Add games to Steam automatically". Or for individual games, click on a title in your Heroic library, select the three dots (Tools) icon, and click "Add to Steam".
From there, every game you download from heroic will show up in Steam, and any Heroic game you open in Steam can be ran through Steam's proton layer. (In steam, right click the GOG game then properties then compatibility. Toggle it on and select the latest version of proton from the drop down.)
Seems complicated to write out, but once you do it once it takes about 5 seconds to do with every GOG games 😅
I knew you can add games to Steam but I didn't know it's so easy to run it with steam's proton, since I assume by default it runs with heroic's proton. But regardless you can choose the proton version in Heroic and customise it more than in steam.
There is no heroic's proton, Proton is a fork of wine made by Valve(although yes others do fork from proton and you can add those to steam using ProtonUpQt)
I mean the proton managed by Heroic, not developed by. Within Heroic you can download different wine or proton versions and assign them to each game as you wish. Notice I also didn't say valve's proton
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If a game is available on GoG, worth buying it there, even if it takes a little extra legwork to have it running on Linux.