PSA: the official itch.io client bundles a very outdated version of electron and has security risks

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  • Alfae

    An Itch.io/Epic Games/GOG launcher that works through plugins

    • Alfae has integration with itch.io.

  • itch

    🎮 The best way to play your itch.io games

    • Man, I can't even get the itch client to launch normally anymore. It just quits. This nonsense: here and here.

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  • lutris

    Lutris desktop client

    • Lutris - integration available from version 0.5.13-beta2.

  • itchio-bottles-setup

    Custom Wine script that allows you to use native itch.io client with Bottles

    • I also found [this script](https://github.com/mirkobrombin/itchio-bottles-setup for Bottles (made by the founder of Bottles), but I'm not sure exactly what it does.

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