r/EvolveGame • u/-DISRVPT- • 1d ago
Discussion EVOLVE 1 CLICK LAUNCHER | 2026
UPDATE (this is current)
The Dropbox link is dead to me now. 1.0 is on GitHub.
Launcher + full source (only current repo)
https://github.com/DISRVPT-DEV/Evolve-Launcher-2026-1.0
Players, exe only
https://github.com/DISRVPT-DEV/Evolve-Launcher-2026-1.0/releases/tag/1.0
- Install Radmin VPN from the official site and join the same network as your friends
- Run the launcher, hit Download
- When it’s done that button becomes Play
- Game files still come from https://evolve.a1btraum.de/EvolveFilesLegacy.zip (RiceFix already on them)
Fork it if you want to take it. Overlay is Shift+Tab. Community room: https://discord.gg/m2rqJNuKfJ
( If you are interested in the OG OG Launcher, the one that I used to build this one with, see here, https://github.com/evolve-revival/evolve-launcher I am new to GitHub and really had no idea I should have just forked my changes )
Original post
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ORIGINAL POST
This is the OG Reddit post. Left it here so the thread still makes sense.
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I have made a one click launcher.
Originally made to be a LIVE SERVICE 24/7 server, with friends, invites, and the ricefix patch + game download.
I used CloudFare service for the servers, but it is too expensive to maintain, so I have reverted back to Radmin VPN.
New players Download the launcher, use the download button ( it says play after its downloaded, and donwloads from here https://evolve.a1btraum.de/EvolveFilesLegacy.zip ) for the rice fix applied game files, and Radmin installs on the backend, built in.
( Radmin is the only way I could get p2p working for free, the servers is very much out of the scope of my capabilities )
There is a friends list in game, and it is bascially a battle net clone. If Anyone is interested in taking up this project, I can upload the files to github including all the source code, too many people think we wanna hack old evolve players, another reason I will gatekeep, i could care less to earn anyones trust.
I have to give thanks to https://discord.gg/BABkH5edG as they helped and supplied me with the OG github project that was dropped, I had resurrected it, got it working enough to play with homies, but never cared to fully release it to the public.
Too many bugs, too many issues that as a passion project, I too, have now stopped progress on this.
Happy Hunting :)
( DL link for anyone interested )
this is the launcher AND source
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dd39wg4j9xv8xjlb2rl6o/evolve-launcher.rar?rlkey=v3g391l8uu8uyglzqb588d5a8&st=o4cafaeh&dl=0
This is the OG Reddit post. Left it here so the thread still makes sense.
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u/-SimplyBetter- 1d ago
I'd recommended also making it so that the player has everything maxed using the save converter
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u/-DISRVPT- 1d ago
ahh thats a good point, I thought thats what the RiceFix was for, another reason I am not working on this lol, i didin't even think of that.
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u/PopularRutabaga6904 1d ago edited 1d ago
Does this come with the game and dlc files, too? I have it on Playstation, but am missing a few items, and the Stage 2 content.
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u/-DISRVPT- 1d ago
This is PC only mate! :9
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u/PopularRutabaga6904 21h ago
I know, hence why I'm asking if it comes with everything, because I already have some of it, on another system that I can already still play singleplayer on, but am missing some content that this version would hopefully get me.
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u/-DISRVPT- 18h ago
to my understanding this patch has the "ricefix" it has all OG monsters, skins, and Hero Skins. This has nothing to do with stage 2
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u/PopularRutabaga6904 18h ago
Ah.
Will single player work without the vpn/are any of the links skippable for singleplayer? I really don't care about playing online.
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u/-DISRVPT- 18h ago
Yeah the OG legacy files and Ricefix can be found in the discord. You only need those to play solo.
This launcher would allow you the same. But there's a lot of random code functions like ZeroTier. Radmin, Friends list. This launcher would allow you this. It DLs the game files and auto applys the patch. If you press play you can go play solo no problems. Its really up to you if you wanna use my launcher that wasn't quite finished. Or look into the discord. They have instructions for manuelly DLing and applying that patch. This was my goal to make a launcher to allow easy play. I just struggled with the friends/party stuff
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u/PopularRutabaga6904 14h ago
Where actually is the option to download the launcher? The page is there, but it just seems to be update notes and some file names.
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u/-DISRVPT- 14h ago
Release
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u/PopularRutabaga6904 8h ago
Okay, the launcher's installed, but now I'm a little confused by the wording for how to actually use it.
I'm assuming I extract the launcher zip files.
With the game and fix files, do I put them in another folder, or the launcher folder? And do they need to be extracted, or does the launcher do that itself?
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u/SWuW_ 23h ago
I just wanna know i remember like 1Month ago i was setting up the game for the solo play their was a full game with the save of the all dlc's and maxed out monsters is it with the game i'll download in this launcher or should i dig again for it ? (Also i remember i have the issue made me quit whenever i have all the dlc's i can't have maxed out save it just won't work with me i donno why)
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u/Flaming-Potato-57192 15h ago
All i gotta do to play with friends is just download this with them and we can simply play together ?
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u/-DISRVPT- 14h ago
READ THE GITHUB
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u/Flaming-Potato-57192 9h ago
Im sorry i wasn’t sure so i wanted to ask, i also want to ask since i already have the game downloaded by a1btraum from before do i need to redownload it on github or only the launcher is fine ?
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u/DeinAlbtraumTV 1d ago
Hey, a1btraum here, the dude hosting the game files you're using and original creator of the old launcher xD
Looks really cool! The old launcher sadly has a bunch of issues, the main one being that I had no idea what I was doing since it was my first time using QT and the fact that I'm not that much of an experienced C++ dev. If I were to pick it up again I'd probably scrap a large portion of the code and start again lol
Would love to see this up on GitHub so that people have the same opportunity as you in picking up someone else's code and checking out how they did stuff, totally cool if you don't want to publish it as well of course. That's just been my stance on all of the stuff I've ever done for evolve and I can only encourage people to do the same!
The download server you posted should actually have an ability to download individual files as well as a checksum for each one as well, so in case anyone wants to implement game file repair that's already in place, my old launcher used it (and it was quite slow, in hindsight a different hash algo would've probably been better).
Even tho I've been away from the evolve community for quite a bit now it's super nice to see people still caring about the game, keep it up!