Playnite
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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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Czechia
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Platforms
- Windows
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Playnite information
Developed by
Josef Nemec Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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Games, Gaming Software, OS & Utilities, System & HardwareGitHub repository
- 10,840 Stars
- 543 Forks
- 667 Open Issues
- Updated Jun 18, 2025
Comments and Reviews
Hands down the best game launcher you will ever find. It's completely free, easy to request features and report bugs. The dev is very nice and it shows how much he cares about providing a the ultimate free game library on the internet. Very intuitive UI and easy to use and easily add Games or programs and metadata from various sites. Able to add games from Steam, Uplay, GOG, Blizzard, etc.
I agree with everything here, except the UI. I can't say any similar game launchers are doing it MUCH better, but the menus of Playnite are by far the worst.
First of this isnt a launcher its a game library. The UI is extremely straight forward and easy to learn where everything is. Most game libraries dont support the number of clients and even personalization that you can do in playnite. Most other game libraries are super barebones and extremely lacking.
The best library manager.
There is so much excellent automation that replaces the need to use Steam's Non-Steam Game feature or other managers. It's fully customizable with superior filtering, sorting and ordering. There's a lot of plugins to make game browsing much more personalized to the user's own preferences.
There are some frustrations with library integrations needing to be verified, pulling the wrong sized images or attributing the wrong name of the game, but this is very manageable and fixable.
I'm working with a library of over 3000 from Steam, Itch, Epic, GOG, EA, Amazon and Rockstar. I use HowLongToBeat and filter games based on what I'm looking forward to playing next. It really highlights the backlog that I would have otherwise missed by opening a different store's launcher.
The launcher has a search for local games in the specified folder. Unfortunately, enriching the added game with metadata from the Internet works more or less stably only if the folder with the executable file is named the same as the game. If the executable file, uninformatively named by the developer, is located in a folder that is not the root for the game, then you will have to name the game manually when adding it. No matter how many thousands of them you have in the specified folder (a common story for fans of retro games that weigh tens of kilobytes).
§ Pros Successfully imports a list of games from Steam, Epic and GOG. There is a customizable table view with many available columns of output data.
§ Cons Although it claims to have emulation, it is not actually an emulator, does not include emulator functions, and third-party emulation modules are not available out of the box. At least for Sinclair ZX Spectrum games. The interface for adding local games to the game library leaves much to be desired: sorting by path does not work, Ctrl and Shift do not work in search results, the number of found objects is not displayed...
Playnite is the best tool currently as it is well maintained. GOG was good but the community integrations are not being maintained so no longer works with many game launchers.
Simple and efficient
Best and open source videogame library. Highly customizable, give it a chance, try to play with its settings, get rid of the things you don't need, get add-ons if you want, add extra things and get themes, it is a pleasuring and unified way to launch your videogames.
Way too sparse on features to ever be considered as a replacement for Steam as a games launcher.
No social features whatsoever. In fact, nothing outside launching games. If you want to play a multiplayer game or share or discuss anything relating to gaming or games, you are absolutely f**ked if you use Playnite.
Controller support is abysmal.
Since SteamGridDB Manager can already manage multiple libraries, and it does it without forcing you to use an alternative launcher that strips out ALL the features, I cannot imagine what the devs of this application were thinking. There is no market for Steam without features, that's why Origin failed.
2/5 uninstaller worked
[Edited by DL300, September 20]
I'm taking a guess here, but I think the fact that it has no social features whatsoever is precisly why Playnite is so popular with its users 😉 To me, too, it's really refreshing to finally have a launcher that just lets me organise and play my games, without all the noise and clutter that I really couldn't care less about.