Warning
Maxima is pre-pre-pre-alpha-quality software, and is being made open source prematurely for KYBER, which depends on it. We cannot yet provide any support for attempting to use it standalone, although bug-fixes and contributions are welcome.
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 provided 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 our sister project, 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 (aka. game importing)
- Running games under proton on Linux/SteamDeck
proton-geis automatically installed together with umu.
In-Dev:
- macOS support
- Support for launching Maxima through Epic/Steam
Planned:
- Library documentation/examples
- Support for installing DLCs
- Full EA Desktop interoperability. Games installed with EA Desktop already appear on Maxima, but to take it a step further we'd like the ability to, for example, start a download on EA Desktop and continue 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.
- Support for the store (buying games)
- Friend Adding/Removing/Inviting
- Status setting; locked to "online" at the moment
- Refactoring Maxima to new architecture allowing multiple frontends to co-exist
Unsupported:
- Battlefield 3/4 are 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
- Old games like Dead Space 2 and BFBC2 are unsupported due to being pre-"Download-In-Place" era games. They have a different manifest format which we need to make a parser for.
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.
It's the farthest you can get from the Origin.
See CONTRIBUTING.md
- Sean Kahler
- Former Core maintainer
- Creator of Maxima
- Nick Whelan (UI)
- Paweł Lidwin (Core)
This project is developed with AI assistance. See AI.md for how AI is used here, the ethical obligations behind it, and how upstream credit and licensing are handled.