diff --git a/games/rare/Makefile b/games/rare/Makefile
index 02d3a7a3d8a9..9476fdb33478 100644
--- a/games/rare/Makefile
+++ b/games/rare/Makefile
@@ -1,36 +1,38 @@
 PORTNAME=	rare
-DISTVERSION=	1.11.3
+DISTVERSION=	1.12.0
 CATEGORIES=	games
 
 MAINTAINER=	Alexander88207@protonmail.com
 COMMENT=	Frontend for legendary
 WWW=		https://github.com/RareDevs/Rare
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=6.2:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR}
-
 RUN_DEPENDS=	legendary>0:games/legendary \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}orjson>0:devel/py-orjson@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyside6>0:devel/pyside6@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}QtAwesome>0:x11-fonts/py-QtAwesome@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}vdf>0:devel/vdf@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-USES=		python
+USES=		desktop-file-utils python
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	RareDevs
 GH_PROJECT=	Rare
 
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils noflavors
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 post-install:
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/misc/rare.desktop \
 		${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/applications/rare.desktop
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/rare/resources/images/Rare.png \
 		${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/pixmaps/rare.png
 
+PLIST_FILES=	share/applications/rare.desktop \
+		share/pixmaps/rare.png
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/games/rare/distinfo b/games/rare/distinfo
index 6063eec92bdf..c652d0e7c235 100644
--- a/games/rare/distinfo
+++ b/games/rare/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1745862104
-SHA256 (RareDevs-Rare-1.11.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 994aa89e9f1033fe9fa696ec5898f048004fe232538a1d0a6a17ba87efbfda69
-SIZE (RareDevs-Rare-1.11.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 5223046
+TIMESTAMP = 1778707064
+SHA256 (RareDevs-Rare-1.12.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 75f97dc4ec936869736e42f01c7464b2965272a7adcc932d1b66d6c0a71b5464
+SIZE (RareDevs-Rare-1.12.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 5301005
diff --git a/games/rare/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/games/rare/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..71f5a4eccfca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games/rare/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-12-09 14:31:42 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
+ ]
+ description = "Open source alternative for Epic Games Launcher, using Legendary"
+ readme = "README.md"
+-license = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
+-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
++license = { text = "GPL-3.0-or-later" }
+ classifiers = [
+     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+@@ -80,9 +79,6 @@ namespaces = true
+ [tool.setuptools.package-data]
+ "rare.resources.images" = [ "Rare.ico", "Rare.icns", "Rare.png", "Rare.svg", "cover.png", "epic.png", "logo.png" ]
+ "rare.resources.languages" = [ "rare_*.qm" ]
+-
+-[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+-version = { attr = "rare.__version__" }
+ 
+ [tool.setuptools_scm]
+ # use only annotated tags ( omit `--tags` argument from `git describe`)
diff --git a/games/rare/pkg-plist b/games/rare/pkg-plist
deleted file mode 100644
index ad86d01c5de6..000000000000
--- a/games/rare/pkg-plist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-share/applications/rare.desktop
-share/pixmaps/rare.png