Cartridges Alternatives

Cartridges is described as 'Simple game launcher for all of your games. It has support for importing games from Steam, Lutris, Heroic and more with no login necessary. You can sort and hide games or download cover art from SteamGridDB' and is an app in the gaming software category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Cartridges for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and Flathub apps. The best Cartridges alternative is Playnite, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cartridges are Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Retrom and Bottles.

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  1. Playnite icon
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    Open-source launcher and manager organizing PC, emulated, and custom games from platforms such as Steam, GOG, Origin, and Uplay under a single customizable interface, supporting metadata, controller mode, plugins, themes, playtime tracking, and multi-language options.

    57 Playnite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
  2. Lutris icon
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    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.

    69 Lutris alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Flathub
     
  3. Heroic is an Open Source Game Launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS (10.15+, won't work properly on High sierra and older versions). Right now it supports launching games from the .

    41 Heroic Games Launcher alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AppImageHub
    • Flathub
     
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    Heroic Games Launcher vs Cartridges Comments
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    Cartridges aims to organize the games from all sources, when Heroic serve as GOG, Epic Games and Amazon Prime Gaming source.

    • Heroic Games Launcher is Free and Open SourceCartridges is also Free and Open Source
    • Heroic Games Launcher is Privacy focusedCartridges is not according to our users
  4. Retrom icon
     40 likes

    Centralized game library management service, allowing you to host games on one device and connect multiple clients, supporting cross-platform play and emulation. Easily manage emulator profiles, with web client access for metadata and artwork showcase.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. PlayOnLinux is a graphical frontend for the Wine software compatibility layer which allows Linux and Mac users to install Windows-based video games, Microsoft Office (2000 to 2010), Microsoft Internet Explorer, as well as many other applications.

    45 PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Wine
    • FreeBSD
     
  6. Lemuroid icon
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    Lemuroid is an open-source emulation project based on Libretro. It's completely free, without ads and focused on ease of use and good user experience.

    36 Lemuroid alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  7. Hydra Launcher icon
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    Game launcher with integrated BitTorrent client enables automatic repack scraping from Megathread sources, How Long To Beat integration, moveable download paths, frequent notifications on repack updates, cross-platform Windows and Linux support, and consistent updates.

    50 Hydra Launcher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Ascendara icon
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    Ascendara simplifies your game management experience by providing a seamless way to discover, organize, and test pre-installed games. No more hassle with extracting, installing, or moving files. The game library is powered by a custom webscraper, currently featuring titles...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Backlog Zero icon
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    Free game library manager for Mac & Windows. Unifies Steam, Xbox, GOG, Epic & Amazon in one place, detects duplicates across all platforms, tracks sessions, goals, and wishlist prices. No account. No cloud. No subscription. Your data stays on your machine.

    21 Backlog Zero alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  10. Mythic icon
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    An open-source Epic Games Launcher alternative and normal game launcher for macOS written in Swift. We started this project to create a GUI frontend for Legendary and to play Windows games using game porting toolkit by Apple.

    48 Mythic alternatives

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    • Mac
     
  11. Ludo icon
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    Ludo is an Emulator Frontend able to run retro video games. Ludo does not emulate the consoles itself, but does it through emulator plugins called libretro cores. Libretro cores are well known emulators (like Snes9x or Genesis Plus GX or PCSX) stripped from their user interface.

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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