Cartridges

A GTK4 + Libadwaita game launcher

Cartridges is an easy-to-use, elegant game launcher written in Python using GTK4 and Libadwaita.

• Manually adding and editing games
• Importing games from various sources:
  • Steam
  • Lutris
  • Heroic
  • Bottles
  • itch
  • Legendary
  • RetroArch
  • Flatpak
  • Desktop Entries
• Filtering games by source
• Searching and sorting by title, date added and last played
• Hiding games
• Automatically downloading cover art from SteamGridDB
• Searching for games on various databases
• Animated covers
• A search provider for GNOME

For updates and questions, join our Discord server (bridged to Matrix)!

I accept donations through GitHub Sponsors and Liberapay.

Thank you for your generosity! 💜

The app is available on Flathub.

1. Download the latest release from Releases.
2. Run the downloaded installer.

Note: Windows might present you with a warning when trying to install the app. This is expected, just ignore the warning.

Install the latest release with the command: winget install cartridges.

1. Download the latest release from Releases.
2. Move the app into your Applications folder.

Note: macOS might tell you that the application could not be checked for malicious software or something similar. In this case, open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down, find the warning about Cartridges and click "Open Anyway". More information can be found here.

See Building.

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Thanks to Weblate for hosting our translations!

The project follows the GNOME Code of Conduct.

See CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.