- Program: Playnite
- License: Open Source under the MIT License (license.md)
- Description: Playnite is a video game manager and launcher, which integrates with services such as Steam, uPlay, Origin, etc. Includes support for video game emulators. It's essentially a unified GUI for all of your games/services. It already comes with a portable version, which can be downloaded from the releases page on GitHub.
- Website: Homepage - GitHub
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I'm curious how much use this would be since most of the games you'd be indexing wouldn't be portable.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
That's a fair point, actually. Having a single, consolidated searchable/filterable database of all of your owned games across all platforms/services is useful and portable-friendly, but a large part of the program's core functionality would be moot if it were truly used as a portable application in the PA sense of the term, which now makes it seem a waste of time, effort and resources for you guys to add it to the PA catalogue. Happy to let this one die!
Thanks for your time mate.
Well I was just looking for Playnite on Portable Apps when I came across this thread. My thoughts on it's usage was similar to what PaddyM said.
Once installed on PortableApps, then you would have access to your game inventory across various platforms. (Epic, Steam, EA, etc.)
Playnite would scan your computer for installed games each time it ran, so there wouldn't be any conflict if run on different systems.
And I think it would store your login info for each site portably, which is a huge timesaver when you want to have a complete view of what you own.
I see benefits even when the games themselves are not portable. Having a portable library, manager, and launcher, is pretty much the core feature of the Playnite software to begin with, regardless if and how the games are installed.
I'd put my vote behind it.