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Playnite

Video game library manager and launcher with support for 3rd party libraries like Steam, GOG, Origin and Uplay, providing one unified interface for your games. Created by Josef Nemec

Free Open Source
Windows

Video game library manager and launcher with support for 3rd party libraries like Steam, GOG and Origin, providing one unified interface for your games.

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Essential Applications (Windows), PC gaming, Open-Source Everything, Great Open Source Software, and Free software that you'll love if you're a gamer

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Features

API Integration Auto update Community based Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Free to play Front End Emulation Full controller support Game launcher Games library Import from Epic Games Import from GoG Import from Steam Launcher Metadata Search Multiple Account support Patreon Integration Portable Pull requests Quick development Scripting Support multiple game stores Add a feature

Categories

Development Games Gaming Software OS & Utilities

Tags

game-libraries game-library open-source-software

Playnite was added by josefnemec in May 2017 and the latest update was made in Mar 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2020. It's possible to update the information on Playnite or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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- As one of the Guests said, the GOG 2.0 Beta is already out and unifies many of the game libraries, having potential to even add unknown ones. imh1kiko • Oct 2019 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees
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- Gog is a game store, playnite is a multiple stores manager. Guest • May 2019 • 0 agrees and 3 disagrees
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Playnite Comments

Comment by Laziness

about Playnite · Sep 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 2 Helpful Report as spam

FINALLY a good game launcher.

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Comment by dataculi

about Playnite · Dec 2018 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Does anyone know if it manages your Humble Bundle library as well?

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Ripper_Dude · Apr 2019

It aggregates different "launcher" libraries (Steam et al), Humble Bundle is a storefront site.