boar
🐗 boar will sniff and dismantle most archives you throw at it (by itchio)
Alfae
An Itch.io/Epic Games/GOG launcher that works through plugins (by suchmememanyskill)
| boar | Alfae | |
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| 1 | 8 | |
| 8 | 55 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 5.4 | |
| 7 months ago | 5 months ago | |
| Go | C# | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
boar
Posts with mentions or reviews of boar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-07.
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Running Itch.io games from game mode
How Alfae gets the executables is by Abusing the itch.io api. I think under the hood this uses the same as the official launcher uses, which seems to be this.
Alfae
Posts with mentions or reviews of Alfae.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
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Tags no longer register and i've finally had it with galaxy 2.0. Any recommended alternatives?
Alfae: Supports a limited number of stores and doesn't seem to have support for filtering including tags.
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PSA: the official itch.io client bundles a very outdated version of electron and has security risks
Alfae has integration with itch.io.
- Red Dead Redemption 2 Epic Games Version - Non Epic or Heroic Launcher Method
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Running Itch.io games from game mode
For this guide i'm using a tool i made called Alfae. It integrates multiple game stores, but this guide only focuses on Itch.io. Alfae can both install Windows and Linux editions of itch.io games
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Installing GOG Linux versions
I use this Launcher for GOG Games on my Deck: https://github.com/suchmememanyskill/Alfae Works perfect for me and adds also the artwork to steam.
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Update: Alfae v1.1.1: Select GOG downloads, separate proton paths and bugfixes
This is a pretty generic update to patch some things that didn't work right in the previous release, like for example GOG not working offline. Feel free to submit any issues you find here
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Update: Alfae (previously Launcher) v1.1.0: GOG support, itch.io improvements and QOL changes
https://github.com/suchmememanyskill/Alfae/issues/10 noted. Thanks for the suggestion
What are some alternatives?
When comparing boar and Alfae you can also consider the following projects:
lutris - Lutris desktop client
itch - 🎮 The best way to play your itch.io games
BoilR - Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library
CreamInstaller - Automatically finds all installed Steam, Epic and Ubisoft games with their respective DLC-related DLL locations on the user's computer, parses SteamCMD, Steam Store and Epic Games Store for user-selected games' DLCs, then provides a very simple graphical interface utilizing the gathered information for the maintenance of DLC unlockers.
itchio-bottles-setup - Custom Wine script that allows you to use native itch.io client with Bottles