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, Mac, Web-based and Android apps. The best Playnite alternative is GOG GALAXY, which is free. Other Playnite like games are Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Retrom and GameHub.

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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. Gavilya icon
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    Gavilya is a user-friendly game launcher built using C# .NET 6 and WPF, designed to streamline the gaming experience by consolidating games from various sources into a single, accessible platform. With its intuitive interface and diverse set of features, Gavilya offers gamers a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Minigalaxy icon
     10 likes

    A simple GOG client for Linux that lets you download and play your GOG Linux games

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  3. 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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    Comments about Athenaeum - Arcadia as an Alternative to Playnite
    Sparky dev
    Negative
    0

    Athenaeum is a launcher for open source games

    Athenaeum - Arcadia icon
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    • Athenaeum - Arcadia is Free and Open SourcePlaynite is also Free and Open Source
  4. GameRoom icon
     9 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Ascendara icon
     3 likes

    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...

    45 Ascendara alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. QuickPlay icon
     4 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Xbox App icon
     13 likes

    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...

    24 Xbox App alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  8. 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
     
  9. kolektor icon
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    All Your Games. One Launcher. Stop switching between Steam, Epic, GOG and more. Kolektor unifies your entire game library.

    28 kolektor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Comments about kolektor as an Alternative to Playnite
    Danilo Moreira
    Positive
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    Better looking, faster, simpler, very easy to use and configurable with 0 click.

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    • kolektor is Free and ProprietaryPlaynite is Free and Open Source
    • kolektor is LightweightPlaynite is not according to our users
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