Playnite - free and open source game library manager

The difference seems to be this library manager detects not installed games (except Uplay ones at the moment).

Import games from Steam, Origin, GOG and Uplay services including games that are not installed.

I dunno, but apparently there's a need for something like this or people wouldn't make it and people wouldn't use it, right?

If you go to the link.

This sentence answers your question
"Open source 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."

Or to sum it up ;) (just shorten the sentence to the important Thing)
Video game library manager providing one unified interface for your games.

Nothing more but nothing less also it is just for convinience.
I will give it a try because i neglect my Games on Platforms simple to much cause the Games at Steam are allways present in my Perception while the games on the other platforms are not.

I like to see all my games in one place - especially for franchises i own across multiple platforms. Steam isn't ideal for this as even if I create a blank .exe to represent the game it still considers it an installed game which can really screw with sorting.

I currently have about 50 games installed through Steam. Disregarding duplicate games GOG, Uplay and Origin would add another 200 or so. Then there's the 100s of other DRM titles I own from Humble, Groupees, Itch, etc. I could add hundreds more if I also want to consider my android games. At that point using Steam's installed view to see what I can fire up and play there and then becomes awkward when there's maybe 10 times as many games listed as there are actually installed.

Playnite handles Steam, GOG, Origin, Uplay, and custom categories at this time. Doesn't sync Uplay games that are not installed though.

The interface is pretty informative but the program is prone to crashing for me. I suspect this will improve as it matures

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Thanks!

Honestly I forgot about it. Maybe I'll give it a chance again.

Thanks for your necro, I remember hearing about this a while ago and then forgot. I'll check it out. :)

Hmm thx for the headsup, the idea of this software is the right thing!

I hope it will get alot of attraction these days, which also brings more advanced work to it.

The war of Publishers and the stalemate with Steam/Valve could get into troubles in the next years for us customers.
And such a unified launcher would bring us into a neutral position.

I like that alot

Sometimes necro-zombies can be good for you. You can have a 💙, but I'm all out of brains, sorry.

I feel you. That's why I like Playnite so much

yep it can let you organize by ratings, genre, etc...

You can set up filters for the imported games. Have a look.

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that might be because it is trying to populate everything at once so it doesn't have to later.

Just have to be patient that first time -- once Playnite populates everything, it stores the info locally for later.

But seems to be taking a long time on loading 8400 items on steam alone.

Not true. The import is really fast.
What you're talking about is the downloading of all metadata for all games. But you don't have to do this all at once, it depends on how you set it up in the settings.

there is no good comparison. Biggest difference is Playnite is Open Source while Launchbox doesn't seem to be. Another difference is that Playnite is lighter on resources and smaller file size. Launchbox seems more focused on the emulation side, while Playnite seems to be focused more on integration of different clients. Playnite also seems to be focused on PC gaming, while launchbox seems to cater to couch gaming with the bigbox add on. There could be more differences, but Launchbox is definitely the more well known one, while Playnite is the more hobby project.

My thoughts after having tried both is that I like Playnite a lot better in terms of interface and how easy it is to import DRM-free games that are installed. Also, the interface for manually adding a game is a lot better, imo. Just my 2 cents' worth!

indeed I noticed. This isn't an entire direct alternative to Launchbox, and it doesn't need to be.

umm Discord doesn't recognize all of your games I feel

I don't like how Discord tracks the games you play when you specifically tell it not to. Makes me wonder what other information they're gathering, and want to use the web version only.

F - my poor poor desura and IndieRoyale games. IndieGameStand too...
Oh yeah and Stardock.... and yeah probably others but I don't recall the ones that are still out there let alone those left in the wayside.

Because it's easier to open one UI and see all your games than having to manage or open 8 different platforms.
I don't see why that would be hard to imagine.

yes it lets you tag/categorize games

hmmm maybe it's a bug that is being fixed right now (uninstalled uplay stuff isn't being shown now, and battle.net login stuff is being glitchy through API)

it should be possible

Did you figure out what was wrong?

I don't really understand the question, but if you're just worried about stolen accounts and stuff like that, the code of the software is open source and available on github, where everyone could check it, so I wouldn't be worried.. if you mean something else, sorry ;)