Everything You Need

A closer look at what Gamekins does today, and what it deliberately leaves out.

One Library for Every Store

Epic, Steam and GOG games side by side, together with the programs already on your PC.

Store badges and filters: See at a glance where each game lives and filter by store.
Steam-style sidebar: Favorites, collections, Running and Updates sections, with type-ahead search and full keyboard control.
A home worth opening: Free games on Epic this week, recent games and a cover-art grid with size and sort options.
Steam works before sign-in: Installed Steam games show up even if you have not signed in anywhere.

Connect your Epic, Steam and GOG accounts and bring your owned games into one library.

Refresh your collection: Pull in your owned games when you sign in, refresh on demand, and check again in the background while no game is running.
Keep installs in view: Gamekins checks for existing installs and follows games installed or removed through the Steam and GOG clients.
Your saves stay with your games: This sync brings together your library and install status. Cloud-save syncing is not available in this version.

Each game has its own page, built around the one thing you came to do.

Hero art and a big Play: Large artwork, play time, last played, size and version.
DLC and manage links: Browse DLC, jump to the store page or support, and open properties.
A real Properties dialog: Launch options, updates, installed files, DLC and custom artwork.
Right-click everywhere: Context menus for the things you do most.

Supported Epic games download straight from Epic’s CDN with Gamekins’ own downloader.

Parallel and verified: Chunks download in parallel and every file is checked as it is written.
Pause and resume: Pick up where you left off, even across restarts.
Smart updates: Reuses data already on disk and only downloads what changed. A Rocket League patch dropped from 28.8 GB to 4.7 GB.
Repair: Verifies an install and re-downloads only the damaged files.
Queue and graphs: Network and disk graphs, a reorderable queue and a bandwidth limit.
Polite by design: Optional auto-updates, and downloads that pause while you play.

Running and play time follow the game’s actual processes, not just its launcher stub.

Honest status: A game shows as Running while it is really running.
Stop means stop: Stopping a game stops the game, not only the launcher around it.

Bring what you have. Gamekins does not ask you to start over.

Adopt existing installs: Picks up games the Epic launcher installed, including DLC and optional content packs.
Point at a folder: Link an existing install, or move one to another drive.
Add any program: Like Steam’s “Add a Non-Steam Game”, for everything else you play.
Desktop shortcuts: Shortcuts that launch games through Gamekins using gamekins:// links.

Epic, Steam and GOG friends together in one tab. See who is online and what they are playing across your connected accounts.

Epic, Steam and GOG: See presence and game activity across connected stores, with friend requests where the provider supports them.
Chat where it works: Chat with Epic friends inside Gamekins. Steam chat opens in Steam.
Store edition note: Native chat is disabled in the Microsoft Store edition.

The small things that make a launcher feel like part of your computer.

Storage manager: See what each game takes up across your drives.
System tray: Close to tray and launch at login if you want.
Epic’s store, built in: Browse the Epic store inside the app with the same sign-in. In the Microsoft Store edition, catalogs open in your browser instead.

Gamekins never sees your password.

Sign in on the provider’s page: You sign in on Epic’s own login page and Gamekins only receives a login token.
Encrypted on your device: Tokens are encrypted with your operating system’s keychain and refreshed automatically.

Gamekins is early but very usable. These are not done yet.

Gamekins is free and open source. Get it from Microsoft Store for Windows, or download the early macOS and Linux releases.

# prefer to build it yourself?
$ pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
$ pnpm dev