Playnite vs GOG Galaxy 2.0

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Which is the better universal game launcher in your opinion and why?

[Psyringe]

I've tried for more than 3 years to make GOG Galaxy 2.0 work and it never did. I own 15,000 games on Steam and about 2,000 more across other services, and Galaxy was never able to import those reliably. It would either be unable to establish a connection or freeze while importing.

Playnite, on the other hand, took only 20 minutes to import 17,000 games across 8 services (more than GOG can integrate), has the ability to also handle tons of emulated games, takes just a few seconds to refresh libraries on startup (GOG usually took several minutes), has extremely customizable views, provides way more information about the games, and never used more than 1% of my CPU (whereas Galaxy typically hovers between 10-15% before it eventually fails at starting up properly).

Obviously, if you just have a few dozen games on other services on Steam, there's no need to use either (you can just add non-Steam games to the Steam launcher manually if you want to have it all in one place). And if your libraries are small, than GOG Galaxy might be working fine. But from my experience, if you want to manage large libraries across a multitude of services, Playnite is an excellent solution whereas Galaxy simply doesn't work.

[gamerz31w]

Cross-play platforming I guess.

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Windows Desktop

[KingSideCastle13]

Hi. Super super late to this question, but I wanted to share my findings after having switched over recently. GOG Galaxy 2.0 has issues with its integrations, namely the ones like Steam or PlayStation, that prevent it from fully synchronizing your libraries.

After discovering this issue, I did my research and switched over to Playnite on a recommendation. It was so much better than I could have asked for

To start, the application itself is open-source, and anyone can make addons for it, all of which are free to use. There are integrations available for just about every library you could access, and tons of customizable addons to round out your experience. But the biggest difference that has blown me away: it natively can detect and organize ROMs. If you’re into emulation, you know how big this is, as it’ll now put those games right alongside your others to be launched directly

Seriously, this app has been exactly what I’ve been looking for, and I’ve been having a blast fine-tuning it to fit my needs

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KingSideCastle13님이 먼저 게시:

Hi. Super super late to this question, but I wanted to share my findings after having switched over recently. GOG Galaxy 2.0 has issues with its integrations, namely the ones like Steam or PlayStation, that prevent it from fully synchronizing your libraries.

After discovering this issue, I did my research and switched over to Playnite on a recommendation. It was so much better than I could have asked for

To start, the application itself is open-source, and anyone can make addons for it, all of which are free to use. There are integrations available for just about every library you could access, and tons of customizable addons to round out your experience. But the biggest difference that has blown me away: it natively can detect and organize ROMs. If you’re into emulation, you know how big this is, as it’ll now put those games right alongside your others to be launched directly

Seriously, this app has been exactly what I’ve been looking for, and I’ve been having a blast fine-tuning it to fit my needs

Same here. GOGG2.0 was really nice and enjoyable until it stop working and start breaking without community support. Shame on GOG.

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Lutris

[Moogal™]

Gog Galaxy 2 is good, that is all i have to say, but personally i only use it for gog games.

[Vince ✟]

I was always a fan of Launchbox. It's excellent for integration of retro emulation libraries with modern PC gaming setups.