steamsync

steamsync is an app to import your Epic Games Store games into Steam as shortcuts, to allow you to use Remote Play and Steam Input with your EGS library.

You can either use the app, described below, or the CLI version (available on PIP) if you are the ultimate hackerman.

Eventually, the goal is to support other launchers.

Using The App

Installation

Head over to the latest release and grab the latest .exe, and run it. There is no need to install anything.

Usage

Download & run the app
Change the paths to your Steam installation and your Epic Games Store installation, if needed.
Press "Next"
Select the Steam Account and path mode you want (if you're not sure, leave the path mode at the default)
Exit Steam
Press "Add Shortcuts To Steam"
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Profit!

Screenshots

It's beautiful, I know.

FAQ

It doesn't work! / I can't get it to work!

Open an issue on GitHub.

Steam crashed after opening my library the first time, but worked after that

I think this has to do with importing all of the icons. Let Steam think and do its thing, eventually it will start responding again.

What type of paths do I want?

You can either use the path to the game (eg G:\Epic Games\RiME\RiME\SirenGame\Binaries\Win64\RiME.exe) or use a URI to launch the game (com.epicgames.launcher://apps/Hydrangea?action=launch&silent=true).

Using the path is best when you want to do Remote Play and Steam Input.

The URI is required for some online games (eg GTAV) to work. This interferes with Remote Play and Steam Input, however.

I can't launch GTAV!

Use the "URI" option to import, see above.

I want to go back to the way it was

steamsync will backup your shortcuts.vdf file by default every time you run it.

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\{your steam userid}\config. You will see some shortcuts.vdf-DATE.bak files. Delete shortcuts.vdf (this is the one steamsync modified), and rename the .bak file you want to use to shortcuts.vdf, restart steam.

I got a `could not find shortcuts file at ...` error

Try making a shortcut in Steam (Library ➡ ➕ Add Game ➡ Add a Non-Steam Game...) first. steamsync will not make a shortcuts.vdf file for you if it isn't already there.

Contributing

I welcome any PRs or suggestions on how to do better! The GUI is a mess, so if anyone wants to tidy up the layout or code, be my guest. Contributions are licensed under the AGPLv3 license.

One major feature I want to add is support for other launchers (Origin, Battle.NET, UPlay)

idbrii/steamsync