Windows Handheld Compendium

Leading distribution platform for PC that lets you buy, download, and manage your game library, with features like cloud saves, achievements, also including Steam Input for advanced controller remapping and gyro support, and Big Picture mode for a controller-friendly full-screen interface ideal for couch or handheld gaming.

Another great launcher which mission is focusing at preserving the older titles in compatibility with modern OS and without DRMs. GOG can also unify the libraries of games from Steam and other launchers.

Playnite is an open-source game library manager that unifies games from multiple platforms (Steam, GOG, Epic, and others) into a single interface, with a full-screen mode especially useful at handhelds.

EmuDeck is an all-in-one emulation setup tool that automatically installs and configures multiple emulators (RPCS3, PCSX2, Yuzu, and others) with optimized settings, saving you from manual configuration.

GeForce Now is a cloud service that streams games you already own on platforms like Steam or Epic Games to any device, running them on Nvidia's remote servers instead of your local hardware.

Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) is Microsoft's cloud gaming service included with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate that lets you stream a large catalog of games directly to any device without needing to download or own them.

Parsec is a low-latency remote desktop and game streaming application that lets you connect to another PC and play games on it from anywhere, also enabling local co-op games to be played online with friends.

Moonlight is an open-source game streaming client that lets you stream games from your Nvidia GeForce-enabled PC to another device over your local network or the internet.

Chiaki is a free and open-source remote play client for PS4 and PS5 that lets you stream and play PlayStation games on Windows, Linux, Android, and other platforms — serving as an alternative to Sony's official Remote Play app with support for more devices.

Efficient file archiver offering superior compression and encryption. Supports multiple formats such as TAR, ZIP, with a unique self-extracting feature.

Analyze disk space usage with in-depth insights and interactive visualizations across local and network drives, including mobile devices' and is a very popular disk usage analyzer in the system & hardware category.

Efficiently uninstall, remove unnecessary files and registry entries on Windows.

Full-featured partition manager. It also lets you edit UEFI entries with ease, so if you want to install a different bootloader like Clover, DiskGenius can help set it up quickly. You can clone the disk if you want to change the SSD without data loss.

Everything is a lightweight desktop search tool for Windows that indexes file and folder names almost instantly and lets you find any file on your drives in real time as you type.

SuperF4 is a lightweight utility that instantly force-kills the active foreground application with Ctrl+Alt+F4, bypassing Windows' standard close request that unresponsive programs can ignore — useful as a quick alternative to opening Task Manager.

Suspend your game at any time, and resume whenever you wish - at the push of a button. You can save some resources on demand from apps working in background. Check also Windows Hibernate feature to preserve working games and software.

RivaTuner Statistics Server is a background application that displays an on-screen overlay with FPS, GPU/CPU usage, and other performance metrics while gaming.

ShareX is a free and open-source screen capture and recording tool that supports screenshots, scrolling capture, screen recording, and a wide range of post-capture workflows like annotation, uploading, and OCR.

Free and open-source software to boost sound quality, volume, and bass. Including an equalizer, effects, and presets for customized audio.

Winaero Tweaker is a universal tweaker software for each modern Windows OS. You can with it e.g. Disable Microsoft's telemetry, Disable ads and unwanted app installation, To launch an app as Administrator without a UAC confirmation, and many many more.

Sometimes the build-in Windows On-Screen Keyboard acts rather unpleasant.

Handheld Companion is an application designed for Windows-based handhelds that provides a controller overlay with gyro support, TDP and GPU clock management, per-game profiles, and a Steam Deck-like on-screen menu accessible during gameplay.

Lightweight CPU/GPU tuning software, alternative to Ryzen Master app.

Lightweight alternative to Armoury Crate, performance and settings management app specifically for ROG Ally devices.

Versatile tool designed to enhance your gaming experience by allowing you to play games in borderless-fullscreen mode. This mode combines the benefits of both fullscreen and windowed modes, providing a seamless and interruption-free gaming session.

This app is scaling windowed games to full screen using state-of-the-art spatial scaling algorithms, sharpening algorithms and machine learning. It can help you achieve much better framerate in more demanding titles.

Custom Resolution Utility (CRU) is a tool that lets you define custom resolutions and refresh rates for your monitor by directly editing its EDID data, bypassing driver limitations.

Magpie is a lightweight tool that upscales any window using algorithms like FSR, Anime4K, or Lanczos — useful for forcing upscaling on games that don't natively support it. Free alternative to Lossless Scaling.

dgVoodoo2 is a wrapper that translates old graphics APIs (Glide, DirectX 1–9) to modern Direct3D 11/12, fixing compatibility issues and enabling features like forced resolution or MSAA in legacy Windows games.

DXVK is a translation layer that converts Direct3D (DX9/10/11) calls to Vulkan, which on Windows can improve performance in older games by leveraging a more modern graphics API. Also check DxWrapper.

Stay connected to the Xbox Live community, see what your friends are playing, share game clips and screenshots, and view achievements across. Install and play games utilizing the Xbox Play Anywhere feature, or stream them with Cloud Gaming.

You can manage your Xbox and Windows settings, record clips, all while being in-game. Supports some great widgets like GoTweaks.

Dedicated Nexus Mods software. It can manage the mods arranged in profiles or collections that may be exported from the site.

External, open-source solution to install and organize mods for many different titles.

Wikipedia for all things PC gaming. You will find here any PC game you can imagine, with tips, tweaks, compatibility troubleshooting and mods. Check this site if you want to play some older games that may or may be not compatible with modern screens, or OS.

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.

The largest website dedicated to supporting independent development of games including user generated game content, mods, addons and DLC. The aim of Mod DB is to unite developers, players and their ideas, empowering them to shape the games we play.

MyAbandonware is a website that archives and offers free downloads of old games from the 1980s and 1990s for platforms like DOS, Windows, Amiga, and various consoles, preserving titles that are no longer commercially available.

SteamDB is an unofficial database and tracking tool for Steam that lets you browse detailed information about games, monitor price history and sales, track player counts, and inspect technical details of Steam apps and packages.