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athenaeum
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Is there a current list somewhere listing current game launchers & which stores they support ?
Flathub — Central Flatpak repository, has small but growing game section. https://flathub.org/apps/category/Game || flatpak, discover, gnome-software GOG.com — DRM-free game store. https://www.gog.com || lgogdownloaderAUR, wyvernAUR, minigalaxyAUR itch.io — Indie game store. https://itch.io || itch-setup-binAUR Legendary — A free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher. https://github.com/derrod/legendary || legendaryAUR Heroic Games Launcher — A GUI for legendary, an open-source alternative for the Epic Games Launcher. https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher || heroic-games-launcher-binAUR Rare — Another GUI for legendary, based on PyQt5. https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare || rareAUR Lutris — Open gaming platform for Linux. Gets games from GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Uplay and many other sources. Lutris utilizes various runners to launch the games with fully customizable configuration options. https://lutris.net || lutris Steam — Digital distribution and communications platform developed by Valve. https://store.steampowered.com || steam Athenaeum — A libre replacement to Steam. https://gitlab.com/librebob/athenaeum || athenaeum-gitAUR Play.it — Automates the build of native packages. Also supports Wine, DOSBox and ScummVM games. https://www.dotslashplay.it/ || play.itAUR Bottles — Open-Source wine and proton prefix manager. Run windows software and games. https://usebottles.com/ || bottlesAUR
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Searching a game I can play with my kids on Linux
I remember using Athenaeum. It has a ton of FOSS games and manages them for you. It's particularly good at OpenArena and FreeDOOM.
- Add KeeperRL to Athenaeum?
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Open Source Steam Client?
Maybe this? https://gitlab.com/librebob/athenaeum
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Any sane Playnite alternative on Linux?
Athenaeum
- Athenaeum v2.3 is out, with big new features including a server browser!
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Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II but has significantly more variety and depth to it. Works on Linux, macOS and other operating systems.
If you like libre games we're developing a steam-like platform just for them. Come check it out https://gitlab.com/librebob/athenaeum
- Athenaeum, the libre steam alternative is back with a version 2.0!
steam
- Open Source Steam Client?
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How to view Steam Leaderboard entry's full details?
Use the webapi. I think I'm using this python package.
What are some alternatives?
steam-for-linux - Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client
Mindustry - The automation tower defense RTS
pegasus-frontend - A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection.
steamctl - 🤸 Take control of Steam from your terminal
steam-buddy - A web interface for managing Steam remotely
chad_launcher
protonup - Install and Update Proton-GE
steam-tui - Rust TUI client for steamcmd
drg-save-transfer - A reimplementation of elibosley's deep-rock-galactic-save-transfer, but written in Python to prove that Python is better than Javascript. 😁
steamtinkerlaunch - Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs [Moved to: https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch]
vpk - 📦 Open, Search, Extract and Create VPKs in python