Rare VS awesome-gog-galaxy

Note there is an open source alternative to the epic launcher in case you don't trust it : Legendary (command line based) https://github.com/derrod/legendary Rare (standalone user friendly frontend for Legendary) https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare Heroic (another user friendly standalone frontend for legendary) https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher

If i had to pick out the best launcher on the market, I think it goes to GOG Galaxy 2.0. The marketplace is definitively smaller than Steam, but it has a “No BS” policy - No DRMs allowed, super costumer-friendly refund process (up to 30 days, even if you already downloaded and played the game), and some pretty crazy deals in forms of sales and freebie bundles when you buy a game, and, in addition to all of that, it merges all of your libraries into one, with the in-game, achievements, hell, even steam friends can be imported. whether it’s a loose executable, Steam, EA ”Desktop” (ew), EGS and even emulation (though for some you need to either create an executable that points your emulator to the game ROM, or use a community plugin, refer to This for compat info)

Since I don't want to spam every link to every solution, you can check in this repo if there is any update for the integrations you're using.

The ones listed on galaxy are all verified by FriendsofGalaxy, who is a trusted Integration developer by GOG. He's been inactive for more than a year, so all his integrations are outdated now: you can find an updated list at awesome-gog-galaxy repo

That said, many integrations are broken and have been abandoned by the devs. You may find some community fixes (this page links to the source code of each integration) but it might not be worth the effort.

Hi all, I think I must be missing something I was so excited for gog galaxy when it claims (and pictured) friends from other platforms however having gone through adding all my game clients (enabling beta) and reviewing the github notes (https://github.com/mixaill/awesome-gog-galaxy) which shows friend presence from Steam etc I still have no contacts what so ever?!?

Itch.io? Yes, you can look at the three available integrations here

Look here if you want to see which plugin supports friends presence

Besides maybe a couple of tools that could be on the GOG's Galaxy 2.0 forums, you can find a decent collection of related utilities here.

And this plugin adds support for a lot more platforms.