Maxima

A free and open-source replacement for the EA Desktop Launcher

Maxima is an open-source replacement for the EA Desktop/Origin game launcher, running natively on Linux and Windows, with MacOS support in progress.

Maxima itself is a library (maxima-lib), with povided CLI (maxima-cli), TUI (maxima-tui), and GUI (maxima-ui) frontends. Other launchers compatible with Maxima's license may implement it as a backend. It's used by KYBER.

Features:

• EA Authentication
• Downloading/Updating games
• Download & Play any build of a game
• DRM & Licensing support
• Multiplayer game support
• Syncing EA cloud saves
• Launch EA games owned on Epic/Steam through Maxima directly
• Playing games installed with EA Desktop on Maxima + vice versa
• Displaying your in-game status to your friends, and viewing your friends' status'
• Locating games
• Running games under wine-ge on Linux/SteamDeck
  • wine-ge is automatically installed, but base wine must already be installed on the system. We're looking into implementing umu-launcher to fix this.

In-Dev:

• MacOS support
• Support for launching Maxima through Epic/Steam

Planned:

• Library documentation/examples
• Full EA Desktop interopability. Games installed with EA Desktop already appear on Maxima, and For example, starting a download on EA Desktop and continuing it on Maxima.
• Cleaner/Stabler downloader implementation
• Progressive/Selective installs
  • Some games are able to start without being fully installed, and some games contain language-specific files.

Unsupported:

• Battlefield 3 is currently unsupported due to how battlelog does game launching. This is on our radar, but isn't a huge priority at the moment.
  • Please file an issue if you find more games that don't work

CLI Usage

maxima-cli standalone will launch an interactive CLI mode to install and launch games.

maxima-cli help will bring up the subcommand list, with things like locate-game, cloud-sync, create-auth-code, list-friends, etc.

Why the name 'Maxima'?

It's the farthest you can get from the Origin.

Maintainers:

• Sean Kahler (Lib, Bootstrap, Service)
• Nick Whelan (UI)