CLUSTER GAMES-LAUNCHER-GAME · 84 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-03-27
Game launchers and library managers
The cluster comprises desktop and terminal-based game launchers, library managers, and compatibility-layer tools that install, organize, and launch games from specific titles to multi-storefront collections. Dated entries before the index start appear from August 2015 through July 2026, with a long tail of mostly one or two entries per month and a slight increase in frequency in 2026. Traction is led by nova-launcher (87 stars), with launchpad-lalapalooza at 56 stars and RustArcade at 4 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 4 hand-coded
Operator · 4 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 81antique-penguin-launcher0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceLauncher application that starts Antique Penguin and manages its game files.
- 82pb2launcher-bin0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceLauncher for Plazma Burst 2, a tactical side-scrolling shooter game.
- 83pyparadox0★10 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceGame launcher that starts Paradox titles from a single interface.
- 84remoteplaydetached-bin0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceGame launcher that starts external games or applications and enables Steam Remote Play Together support.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.