Gaming Software
How long are your favorite video games? HowLongToBeat has the answer. Create a backlog, submit your game times and compete with your friends!
Glitchwave is a community-built video game database where you can rate, review, catalog and discover new games as well as participate in contributing to the database itself. Part of the RateYourMusic family.
A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once. It is a MultiMC fork.
SuperF4 kills the foreground program when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. This is different from when you press Alt+F4. Alt+F4 only asks the foreground program to exit, allowing it to decide for itself what to do. Read more...
You can also kill a process by pressing Win+F4 and then clicking the window with your mouse. You can press escape or the right mouse button to exit this mode without killing a program.
A third-party tool was made to give better insight into the applications and packages that Steam has in its database.
Download and share custom video game assets and personalize your gaming library.
Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs - GitHub - frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch: Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs including:
Vortex https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Vortex Mod Organizer 2 https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Mod-Organizer-2
More info and help: https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki
Vortex is the new, modern mod manager from Nexus Mods. It is designed to make modding your game as simple as possible for new users, while still providing enough control for more experienced veterans of the modding scene. Lead by Tannin, the creator of Mod Organizer, Vortex takes the lessons learnt during the development of MO and Nexus Mod Manager to provide the most powerful and intuitive modding experience available.
Our approach with Vortex aims to take complex tasks such as sorting your load order or managing your mod files and automates as much of the process as possible with the goal of having you achieve a stable modded game with minimal effort. We want to help you spend less time modding and more time playing your games.
Why Vortex?
MULTI-GAME SUPPORT With mod support for over 30 different games and counting - from Dark Souls, Fallout and Skyrim, to the Witcher series and Stardew Valley - Vortex is the most versatile mod manager available.
CLOSE INTEGRATION WITH NEXUS MODS Vortex is designed to seamlessly interact with Nexus Mods allowing you to easily find, install, and play mods from our site, learn about new files and catch the latest news.
MODDING MADE EASY The built-in auto-sorting system manages your load order and helps you to resolve mod conflicts with powerful, yet easy to use plugin management features.
MOD PROFILES Easily set up, switch between, and manage independent mod profiles enabling you to use exactly the combination of mods that you want for a particular playthrough.
MODERN, EASY TO USE UI Featuring a fully customisable interface, Vortex allows you to quickly and easily access tools and manage your games, plugins, downloads and save games.
EXTENSIONS AND PLUGINS Vortex is released under a GPL-3 License giving our community the ability to write extensions and frameworks which can then interact with Vortex, continually adding to its functionality.
An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods. Focused on user freedom and free redistributability.
Overwolf adds epic overlay apps to your favorite games. Game capture, Twitch streaming, TeamSpeak overlay, in-game browser and many more smart apps that make gaming more awesome!
Add Facebook, Skype, Multi-IM and a collection of many widgets to your games. Overwolf combines the best of every chat client into a very intuitive interface. It is still in beta stage, but the future of this program is looking bright.
Welcome to the CurseForge community! Build, manage and download mods and addons for your favorite games
Windows compatibility on Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS with no Windows license.
CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications on your Mac Linux or Chromebook computer. You can think of it as an emulator, but it's different, because there's no Windows OS license required. Your applications integrate seamlessly in OS X Linux or Chrome OS; just click and run. No rebooting, no switching to a virtual machine, and no Windows Operating System license required!
Adding new Windows software is easy. Just select an exe, and CrossOver will recognize it and offer to install it. Once installed, CrossOver will configure your application to run on your computer. That's all there is to it.
Pegasus is a graphical frontend for browsing your game library (especially retro games) and launching them from one place. It's focusing on customizability, cross platform support (including embedded devices) and high performance.
Instead of launching different games with different emulators one by one manually, you can add them to Pegasus and launch the games from a friendly graphical screen from your couch. You can add all kinds of artworks, metadata or video previews for each game to make it look even better!
PlayOnLinux (PlayOnMac at http://www.playonmac.com) is a tool to help Linux (and Mac) users run games and programs for Windows on Linux (or Mac, FreeBSD), via the use of (as a front-end for) Wine. Few games are compatible at the moment, and it certainly is a factor preventing the migration to this system. PlayOnLinux brings an accessible and efficient solution to this problem, cost-free and respectful of the free software.
Borderless Gaming forces borderless-fullscreen mode in any game. Stream at any resolution while still being able to easily alt-tab out as if you were in windowed mode. No more risk of crashing in badly optimized games when you want to switch songs or check your email.
A lot of games run smoother when running in a window, the need for V-Sync goes out the window, it's simple to use and you can click and forget. No more apps with overly complex methods of adding games or useless features bloating up your system resources.
It's also open source so anyone can contribute to making it the best tool out there. See the links in the side bar for the releases/source code. When you buy Borderless Gaming you're choosing to support the development. You can always get it free on Github if you're lacking coins.
Backloggery helps gamers keep track of unplayed and unfinished games in their collection. Add all the games you own to the list, and track how far you have progressed towards beating them. This will help keep you from buying many new games before having played the ones you already own, and thus make the most out of your existing collection. Or it can simply tell you how much you're getting out of the games you buy, and how your collection and playing habits compare to others.
Additional features include the Fortune Cookie, which will give you suggestions on what to play next by randomly selecting games you own but haven't finished; generating signature images for websites and forums, so you can show others what you're currently playing or have recently beaten; and the MultiTap to connect with friends.
Games are added by simply entering a name; there is no database of games running on the back end. This has the advantage that games can be added quickly and simply without having to search for them, and that all games can be tracked, no matter how obscure.
Grouvee is the best place on the Internet to catalog your video game collection and track your backlog.
Connect GOG GALAXY 2.0 with multiple platforms and unite all your games and friends scattered across them in one powerful app.
Organize your games across platforms into one functional and beautiful library.
GOG GALAXY 2.0 is an application, thanks to which you’ll be able to combine multiple libraries into one and connect with your friends across all gaming platforms, consoles included. If your games and gaming buddies are scattered between different launchers and platforms, this is a solution for you! Keeping track of all achievements earned by you and your friends, hours played, and games owned across platforms has never been this easy. And the application is entirely free, all you need is a GOG account to use it.
Parsec lets you join and control a computer remotely in low latency, 60 FPS and HD, as if you were in front of that computer. • Play with friends any split-screen, local multiplayer games • Pass the controller to a friend in single-player games, or let them watch you • Use your computer remotely with a keyboard and mouse, or let a friend take control and help you with something • Watch videos and listen to music together • Use it for work, CAD, graphics, video editing and more (check 'Parsec for Teams') • Find strangers to play games with in the Arcade tab (in beta, not yet stable)
Parsec has three 'tiers': • Free (https://parsec.app/features/): Everything you need to bring a friend to play with you, access your own PC remotely to play or do anything non-commercial in low latency, 60FPS and HD • Warp (https://parsec.app/warp/): For individuals that want to go a step above just gaming and support Parsec while at it. Get improved 4:4:4 colors, multiple monitors, tablet support and virtual displays • Teams (https://parsec.app/teams/): For teams that want everything from Warp for the whole team, advanced tools & permissions for managing who accesses machines, VIP & escalated support, SAML SSO and more
This tool is used for modifying game profiles inside the internal driver database of the nvidia driver. All game profiles are provided by the nvidia driver, but you can add your own profiles for games missing in the driver database. You also have access to hidden and undocumented settings, which are not provided by the drivers control panel.
Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute a wide range of games and related media entirely over the internet, stretching from one-man independent efforts to some of the worlds most popular games. Steam is set apart from its peers in terms of functionality primarily by its residency in the system tray, and the desktop tasks that the client software performs to make use of that position.
Features:
Steam Chat Talk with friends or groups via text or voice without leaving Steam. Videos, Tweets, GIFs and more are supported; use wisely.
Game Hubs Everything about your game, all in one place. Join discussions, upload content, and be the first to know about new updates.
Steam Broadcast Stream your gameplay live with the click of a button, and share your game with friends or the rest of the community.
Steam Workshop Create, discover, and download player-created mods and cosmetics for nearly 1,000 supported games.
Available on Mobile Access Steam anywhere from your iOS or Android device with the Steam mobile app.
Early Access to Games Discover, play, and get involved with games as they evolve. Be the first to see what's coming and become part of the process.
Multilingual Creating a global community is important to us, that's why our client supports 28 languages and counting.
Purchases Made Easy Our storefront supports 100+ payment methods across over 35 currencies, giving you the flexibility to pay how you want.
Controller Support Steam encourages developers to include controller support in their games including PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo controllers.
Mod Organizer 2 is a mod manager created by Tannin to support 64bit games like Skyrim Special Edition and Fallout 4 in addition to all the 32bit games MO1 already supported. Tannin discontinued the project when he was hired by the Nexus team to develop their new Vortex mod manager. MO2 was not completed and was left with many issues. LePresidente managed to fix it to a usable state by himself after SkyrimSE came out, adding support for it, and releasing v2.0.8.
Mod Organizer 2 (MO2) is a feature rich Mod Manager. MO2 is very advanced and specialized for Bethesda games. Here is the list of supported titles:
- Morrowind
- Oblivion
- Fallout 3
- Fallout NV
- Tale of Two Wastelands (TTW)
- Skyrim
- Skyrim SE
- Skyrim VR
- Fallout 4
- Fallout 4 VR
- Enderal (Steam Edition)
What distinguishes MO2 from more traditional mod managers is the idea of not modifying the "vanilla" game installation in any way. Mods are not actually installed in the game folder but instead are kept each in their own separate folders. The game INI configuration files are not touched and instead MO2 uses it's own set. This way mods are only "active" if the game is started from MO2, while if it's started normally it will be in it's "vanilla" unmodded state.
What this means for users is that enabling/disabling mods doesn't actually require any file transfers, it can be done instantly. The order in which mods are "installed" can also be modified at any moment with drag & drop, easily changing which mods are winning file conflicts.
Users can change the entire setup with a couple of click by using different Profiles of enabled mods. Each profile has it's own order of mods and plugins and even it's own set of INI files, different from the ones in MyGames which are left untouched.
The Nexus Sites are a large network of community driven websites that support the free and open sharing of video game mods and downloadable content in a welcoming environment. Our focus is on providing simple yet powerful tools that make sharing game mods a pain-free and enjoyable experience, so our users can get on with doing what they enjoy most; making, browsing and playing mods and their games.
Video game library manager and launcher with support for 3rd party libraries like Steam, GOG and Origin, providing one unified interface for your games.
Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It allows you to gather and manage (install, configure and launch) all your games acquired from any source, in a single interface.
Features
- Manage your Linux games, Windows games, emulated console games and browser games
- Launch your Steam and Desura games
- Community-written installers to ease up your games' installation
- More than 20 emulators installed automatically or in a single click, providing support for most gaming systems from the late 70's to the present day
- Download and play libre and freeware games
Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on Linux kernel operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this.
Most users will prefer to use Proton provided by the Steam client itself. The source code is provided to enable advanced users the ability to alter Proton. For example, some users may wish to use a different version of Wine with a particular title.
Getting Started with Proton from Steam Play Make sure you are opted into the Steam Client Beta! Proton requires graphics drivers that are more recent than what is typically packaged in most distributions; please read the list of requirements and quickstart for Ubuntu 18.04 users: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_3.7/PREREQS.md Install and play games! Please refer to this post for more information: https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561
Proton has DXVK which can be used as primitive HUD: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk#hud
Users can change settings for all games at once with user_settings.py: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton#runtime-config-options
Wine is a free, open source application for running Windows software on operating systems that are normally not supported. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.
