Unvanquished launcher

Note

The Unvanquished launcher is the recommended way to install and run the Unvanquished game.

The Unvanquished launcher can be downloaded for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Download the launcher

The Unvanquished launcher can be downloaded from the download page.

Free and libre software

The Unvanquished launcher is free and libre software and supports installing, updating and running the game on Linux, Windows and macOS.

The source repository for the Unvanquished launcher is there : github.com/Unvanquished/updater.

Cross platform

The Unvanquished launcher is provided for Linux, Windows and macOS.

Benefits of the launcher

The most obvious benefit of using the launcher is that you immediately find out when there is a new release, and can acquire it with one click. Some additional nice things:

• Installing a release that you already have functions as a "repair" operation. If any files are missing or corrupted, the launcher detects this and redownloads them.
• Transfers less data: when downloading a new release, any packages reused from a previous release that you already have do not need to be downloaded again, unlike if you had used the universal zip.
• (Linux and Windows) Installs unv:// protocol handler which works with the web server list.
• (Linux and [TODO]Windows) Instructs the OS that the good GPU should be used, for those laptops that have dual Intel and Nvidia GPUs.
• (Mac) The downloaded executable won't have pesky "quarantine" attributes interfering with running it.
• (Windows) TODO: install firewall rules allowing LAN games to be played