Support opening game settings with `heroic://` protocol

Author: AllexioCreated Sep 12, 2026Updated Sep 12, 2026
Labelsfeature-request

Problem description

I currently am the lead developer on a mod manager called NOMM -> https://nomm.moe I would like to be able to dynamically modify launch options of games as users of NOMM install Modding frameworks & utilities. This is what I initially ended up doing for Steam for example, but that required turning off steam, doing the modification in vdf files, and then turning it back on, which is not an ideal workflow.

More recently, I looked into the Steam browser protocol and noticed that Steam has a gameproperties option that I can use to directly launch the game properties window of a game where the user can directly copy the launch options.

Feature description

The solution I propose is to implement a feature similar to Steam's steam://gameproperties/<id> for heroic://

Since heroic has multiple tabs to modify a game's profile, it would be great to be able to target a specific tab.

In my case, the one I want to open is the "Advanced" tab to be able to modify the game arguments.

Alternatives

As of right now it seems to me the only two alternatives are:

  • Requesting that the user manually goes int he game profile options in the third tab and pastes the command
  • "Automatically" modifying Heroic files (but if I understood correctly this works similarly to Steam in that it requires a restart to take effect)

Additional information

Thanks a lot for considering this feature!

Source: Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher