Nile

Cross platform Amazon Games client, based on this research

Nile aims to be CLI and GUI tool for managing and playing games from Amazon.

Features

• Login to Amazon Account
• Download games
• Play games (with Wine/Proton on Linux)
• Play games using Bottles (--bottle parameter)

Might not work

• Online games, that use FuelPump (I don't have any game like that to test)

Purpose

This is my attempt to make Amazon Games useful for Linux users, who want to play titles obtained thanks to Prime membership.

Usage

At the moment, Nile is a command line application. If you are looking for graphical user interface, make sure to checkout

• Heroic Games Launcher - uses Nile as a backend for Amazon Games
• Lutris - has implementation really similar to what Nile provides

(Recommended) The bundled program is available on the releases page

If you wish to run nile from source, see instructions below.

Dependencies

Arch and derivatives (Manjaro, Garuda, EndeavourOS)

sudo pacman -S python-pycryptodome python-zstandard python-requests python-protobuf python-json5

Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, Pop!_OS)

sudo apt install python3-pycryptodome python3-requests python3-zstandard python3-protobuf python3-json5

With pip

Do this after cloning the repo and cd into the directory Do not install if you installed dependencies through your package manager

This is NOT recommended as it can potentially collide with distribution packages source
new versions of pip will prevent you from doing it outside of virtual environment

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Building PyInstaller executable

If you wish to test nile in Heroic flatpak you likely need to build the nile executable using pyinstaller

• Get pyinstaller

pip install pyinstaller

• Build the binary (assuming you are in the nile directory)

pyinstaller --onefile --name nile nile/cli.py

Contributing

I'm always open for contributors

black is used for code formatting

Setting up dev environment:

• Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/imLinguin/nile
• CD into the directory cd nile
• Setup virtual environment python3 -m venv env
• Install dependencies
• Run nile ./bin/nile

Prior work

This is based on Rodney's work here: https://github.com/derrod/twl.py Some of his code is implemented in nile, since nothing changed since then in terms of downloading and patching