Playnite Alternatives

Playnite is described as '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' and is a very popular game library manager in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to Playnite for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Android apps. The best Playnite alternative is GOG GALAXY, which is free. Other Playnite like games are Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Retrom and GameVault.

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Playnite alternatives are mainly Game Library Managers, but if you're looking for Game Stores or Game Emulators you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Playnite.
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  1. RetroBat icon
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    RetroBat is a set of Batch and Powershell scripts written to easily configure and launch EmulationStation for Windows. This frontend software is intended to gather your ROMs collection and run games with compatible emulators such as RetroArch.

    17 RetroBat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Minigalaxy icon
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    A simple GOG client for Linux that lets you download and play your GOG Linux games

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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    Arcadia is a game launcher and manager designed as a libre replacement for Steam. Arcadia uses flatpak as its packaging system and pulls all data from flathub currently.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Athenaeum is a launcher for open source games

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    • Athenaeum - Arcadia is Free and Open SourcePlaynite is also Free and Open Source
  4. GameRoom icon
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    A slick Windows game manager, which automatically scans and scraps games from Steam (installed or not), Origin, Battle.net, GoG.com and UPlay. It also monitors your play time and allows some automatization like power management and custom commands.

    27 GameRoom alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. QuickPlay icon
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    QuickPlay is a windows powerful universal emulator 'frontend-of-frontends', which has support for countless emulators and systems, old and new, with a philosophy of being quick and easy for new users, yet comprehensive and flexible for old-timers.

    8 QuickPlay alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Xbox App icon
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    The Xbox App brings together your friends, games, and accomplishments across Xbox One and Windows 10 devices (iOS & Android included). Stay connected to the Xbox Live community, see what your friends are playing, share game clips and screenshots, and view achievements across...

    23 Xbox App alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
    • Xbox App is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Playnite.

    • Xbox App is Free and ProprietaryPlaynite is Free and Open Source
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    Metropolis Launcher is a game launcher, emulation front-end and an extensive offline database of video game metadata thanks to MobyGames.

    Metropolis Launcher is based on the .NET 4.0 Framework and runs on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. kolektor icon
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    kolektor is a Video Game Collection manager for Windows, for organizing user's game library.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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