Notepad++, Sublime), you can use that for the next step - otherwise, go aheadĪnd launch “Windows PowerShell ISE” from the Start Menu. If you’re someone who has a preferred text editor (like Visual Studio Code, Steam would have no way of knowing if the game was running or not (while youĬould launch the game, Big Picture and streaming wouldn’t work). Steam, however, can’t open this type of shortcut directly. OK - so we have our URL, we should just be able to go there any launch the game.Īs you can see in the picture, we’re launching apps/Kiwi, which is Tetris Effect.

You can delete the shortcut at this point.

Copy the URL field from the ‘Web Document’ tab and save it somewhere.

Minimize the Launcher, navigate to the Desktop, and find your new shortcut (it will have the name and icon of the game).

menu near the game, and click ‘Create Shortcut’, this will place a shortcut to the game on your Desktop.

In the Epic Games Launcher, navigate to your library, and find the game you’d like to play on Steam.

Thankfully, this is included in a shortcut to a game. So, to start, we’ll need to get the launch url for our game from the Epic Games Properties from the Tetris Effect shortcut The data after the double slash tells the launcher what game to start.

So when a url with this prefix is encountered, the data is sent to the Epic The Epic Games Launcher registers the handler ://, Operating system to launch Zoom with some additional data about what meeting to WindowsĪllows programs to register special urls that are opened by specific programs.įor example, Zoom meeting links, when clicked in the browser, allow the

Thankfully, we can take advantage of how Epic itself launches games. To begin, we need a way to launch games purchased through the Epic Games Store. We’re not replacing their launcher, just automating it Note: You’ll still need the Epic Game Store application to launch games once this Steam, and even play those games on a Steam Link. However, you can add games from the Epic Games Store to

Lacks a lot of the comforts we have with Steam (such as Big Picture Mode, However, Epic’s storefront is less mature, and Epic’s launcher There are some great games on the Epic Games Store (I personally am a big fan of

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