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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • CZ flagCzechia
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Windows
4.7 / 5 Avg rating (23)
210likes
15comments
0news articles

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Properties

  1.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Games library
  2.  Game Launcher
  3.  Multiple Account support
  4.  Import from Epic Games
  5.  Front End Emulation
  6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  7. Steam icon  Import from Steam
  8.  Search metadata
  9.  Launcher
  10.  API Integration
  11. GOG.com icon  Import from GoG
  12.  Controller Support
  13.  Auto Update
  14.  Support for scripting
  15.  Support multiple game stores
  16.  Portable
  17.  Ad-free
  18.  Dark Mode
  19.  Community-based
  20.  DRM Free
  21.  Achievements Supported
  22.  Quick development
  23. Patreon icon  Patreon Integration
  24.  Pull requests
  25.  Free to play

 Tags

  • FOSS
  • game-library
  • game-libraries

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Playnite information

  • Developed by

    CZ flagJosef Nemec
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7 (23 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    40 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Chinese
    • Czech
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Norwegian
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Spanish
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese

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GitHub repository

  •  10,840 Stars
  •  543 Forks
  •  667 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 18, 2025 
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Our users have written 15 comments and reviews about Playnite, and it has gotten 210 likes

Playnite was added to AlternativeTo by josefnemec on May 10, 2017 and this page was last updated Jun 18, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Playnite receives praise for being a versatile and intuitive game launcher, capable of unifying games from multiple platforms and offering open-source customization. Many users highlight its simplicity, extensive library support, and active development. However, criticisms include its lack of social features, unsatisfactory controller support, and some inconvenience when adding local games with specific naming conventions. It's viewed as a strong manager but not a complete replacement for Steam.
Top Positive Comment
TheEmperorArt
Nov 11, 2017
14

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.

hundvd7
Jul 28, 2024

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.

TheEmperorArt
Oct 21, 2024

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.

astarr
Nov 9, 2024
0

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.

Korwin
Sep 29, 2024
0

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...

DataBitzNZ
Oct 28, 2023
0

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.

keltroth
Sep 16, 2023
1

Simple and efficient

Alabaster3632
Aug 26, 2022
2

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.

DL300
Sep 20, 2020
-15

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]

Anamon
Jan 24, 2021

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.

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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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