Playnite vs GOG Galaxy 2.0

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

[Captain Pentium]

Never heard of Playnite and haven't been able to use GOG Galaxy 2.0 so I can't properly have an opinion on either but from what I heard about Galaxy 2.0 it sounds friggin' amazing!

[=CrimsoN=]

tf is playnite? I have GoG Galaxy and its okay. I dont know if its 2.0 though...I've been using it since it was released.

[linis]

I treat all digital distribution services pretty much the same way I treat Steam, it's there to get games that you buy to you digitally. Since Steam already does the job and connects constantly to operate, I'll probably never use GOG Galaxy or whatever this Playnite is unless it becomes mandatory for a game I'm extremely interested in (Half Life 2 was the reason I installed Steam in the first place)

Things are constantly changing so I'm almost anticipating GOG's Galaxy client service to eventually become mandatory to obtain any games you've bought from their website. I'd say the same for this Playnite, should it ever gain enough traction in games distribution, like EPIC, GOG, Steam, Origin, UPlay, etc..

[s w e k]

Never used either.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

I doubt I would use GOG as a Universal launcher. How hard is it to click a individual launcher icon for Steam, GoG, Origin and Uplay on my PC. Zero out of 10 hard.

[uuuhhhh-Ghostly]

For those who don't know, the Universal Launcher is for simplifying and organising the games you own. Not really a Storefront thing or digital distribution service.

I've been playing around with GoG 2.0 for around three days. And have looked into Playnite recently, too. I think they are both pretty much the same. The Friends List integration is better on GoG 2.0 apparently so if you need that, that's the better choice atm.

Playnite has the Emulator integration. So if you need that, go with Playnite.

They are both very useful and incredibly well made. Very snappy and easy to use. Probably faster than the Steam Library is for less powerful PC's now, too.

The best thing about them both is that you can open one launcher and choose a game to play.
I have often forgotten about so many games, just using the Steam Launcher. And I don't want to open each Launcher to choose what to play.

With Epic, Twitch, GoG, UPlay and Steam games in my possession; I ended up just choosing a Steam game to play because I couldn't be bothered to open each Launcher and remind myself of what I have in them. Now I can just open GoG 2.0 and choose a game from my entire catalogue.
(Yes, you can also fill up your Desktop or a folder with links to the games you have installed.. but not the games you own that aren't installed).

Both Playnite and GoG 2.0 both have amazing sorting, categorising, media thumb-nailing and plenty more - options, to get things the way you want/need them.

Some issues still exist. Such as Slay The Spire mods aren't available launching from GoG. To have the option to use the Mods, I must launch from Steam. Little things like that.

But if you just want to see every game you own, in one place, organised exactly like you want them, with havig the sortability of a God... Using one of these Launchers gives you that.

You can then choose a game from it to play and close it. Then open the Launcher for that game, 'cause you now know where it resides

(Of course; if the amount of games you own is not in the hundreds, you don't really need either)

[Darkwave Dahlia]

Makes no sense when you use the only official PC game launcher named Steam.

[Spawn of Totoro]

I tried both. All they did was eat resources and open the launcher to start the game (in the case of GOG, when it wasn't a game from GOG). I had to close the launchers after leaving the game as they didn't take car of that part either.

I prefer to open each launcher as I am going to play. At least then I won't have two open at one time.

[uuuhhhh-Ghostly]

Spawn of Totoro님이 먼저 게시:

I tried both. All they did was eat resources and open the launcher to start the game (in the case of GOG, when it wasn't a game from GOG). I had to close the launchers after leaving the game as they didn't take car of that part either.

I prefer to open each launcher as I am going to play. At least then I won't have two open at one time.

The GoG 2.0 will close your Launchers for you after you close the game. I'd prefer one launcher, too but with multiple games from multiple stores, it's not really possible nowadays.

Using the Multi-Launcher to choose what to play, seems the best for me. Then close it and open the the launcher my chosen game is on.

(Unless you can remember which launcher every game is on. And remember every game you have so you can choose one without looking.)

[Spawn of Totoro]

uuuhhhh-Ghostly님이 먼저 게시:

The GoG 2.0 will close your Launchers for you after you close the game. I'd prefer one launcher, too but with multiple games from multiple stores, it's not really possible nowadays.

If it was supposed to, it never did for me. Steam stayed on in the background.

[uuuhhhh-Ghostly]

Spawn of Totoro님이 먼저 게시:

uuuhhhh-Ghostly님이 먼저 게시:

The GoG 2.0 will close your Launchers for you after you close the game. I'd prefer one launcher, too but with multiple games from multiple stores, it's not really possible nowadays.

If it was supposed to, it never did for me. Steam stayed on in the background.

The option to, is in the Settings. You can click a box for each Launcher so you can close the ones you want to but keep Steam open, say.

It's an option because auto-closing peoples windows/applications without asking, is probably worse.
And adding a nagging dialogue box after closing a game, is not good either.

They thought about user enjoyment a lot I think.

[Daxank]

I honestly wouldn't have an opinion on either as I don't need either
I have like, 5 games on Uplay, 10 on Origin, 1 on battlenet but I ain't playing it ever again nor will I reinstall the launcher, 1 on the bethesda launcher and it's the same as the battlenet one and that's it...
then I have 2.4k games here on steam... so I really don't need something to manage multiple launchers as I just manage to ignore them fairly easily as the games they have on them and only them aren't that interesting to me

[Trundle]

Never use none of those. probably never will be

[uuuhhhh-Ghostly]

34 on Epic - 31 on GoG - A couple of hundred on PlayStation platforms - 102 on Twitch - And around 600 ish on Steam.

Unfortunately, I kind of need something to keep track of it all.

[Smooth Jazzman]

I currently own 172 games on Steam, 39 on Epic, 34 on GoG, 7 on Uplay, and a couple on Battle.net, and Bethesda. I sometimes forget I own a game I've been wanting to play, and have even purchased a game on sale, not realizing I already owned it on another Client. So, being able to integrate All my games, installed or not installed, into one Unified Launch Platform, and have them all listed, categorized, rated, with customizable metadata, is a huge plus. Both Playnite and GoG Galaxy 2 offer all of this. GoG Galaxy is still in Closed Beta and I have not tried it yet. Playnite has been around a while and is quite functional and stable. I will need good reason to switch to Galaxy 2, and with it's recent Atlas Update, it is shaping up to be that good reason.