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An HDR-compatible multiseat streaming solution based around TermWrap, Sunshine, Moonlight, and a variety of custom driver and library patches
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Atmosphère is a work-in-progress customized firmware for the Nintendo Switch.
Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming.
Open Gaming Platform.
Lutris is a video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come. Over the years, video games have gone through many different hardware and software platforms. By offering the best software available to run your games, Lutris makes it easy to run all your games, old and new.
Manage your video games.
Gameyfin will turn your disorganized collection of video games into a beautiful, easy-to-navigate library that you can access from any device with a web browser. It will automatically scan your game folders, download metadata and cover images, and present everything in a user-friendly interface. Download your game files directly from the web UI, share your library with friends, and enjoy your games like never before.
Your entire game library in one place with metadata and advanced filtering.
Stop jumping between Steam, Epic, GOG, Amazon, and a dozen other launchers just to see what you own. Backlogia aggregates all your games into a single, beautifully organized library with rich metadata, ratings, and discovery features—all running locally on your machine.
One app for every mouse. Free, open source mouse configurator.
OpenMouse runs entirely in your browser over WebHID — DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB, for dozens of gaming mice, with no accounts, no installs, and no telemetry sent anywhere.
Drop is an open-source, self-hosted game distribution platform, creating a Steam-like experience for DRM-free games. Drop is an open-source game distribution platform, like GameVault or Steam. It's designed to distribute and shared DRM-free game quickly, all while being incredibly flexible, beautiful and fast.
Run your Windows games on Apple Silicon. Free, open source, and honest about what works — down to which renderer each game needs.
Connect to Work or Games from Anywhere.
Remote desktop reimagined – a seamless 4k experience at up to 60 frames per second with near-zero latency. Secure, flexible, effortless access to whatever you do, at any time, from wherever you go.
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XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. Built to provide a stable, smooth and solid system experience.
Batocera.linux is an open-source and completely free retro-gaming distribution that can be copied to a USB stick or an SD card with the aim of turning any computer/nano computer into a gaming console during a game or permanently. Batocera.linux does not require any modification on your computer. Note that you must own the games you play in order to comply with the law.
Nintendo 3DS Emulator.
Citra is an open-source emulator for the Nintendo 3DS capable of playing many of your favorite games.
Every game you own, in one fast, tiny launcher.
A native C++/Qt Linux launcher for Windows, Steam, GOG and retro games. 2.3 MB installed. Zero bloat. KDE-first.
Play Your PC Games Remotely.
Moonlight allows you to play your PC games on almost any device, whether you're in another room or miles away from your gaming rig.
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Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Offering low latency, cloud gaming server capabilities with support for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs for hardware encoding. Software encoding is also available. You can connect to Sunshine from any Moonlight client on a variety of devices. A web UI is provided to allow configuration, and client pairing, from your favorite web browser. Pair from the local server or any mobile device.
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Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers, living room home theater PCs, and numerous other handheld PCs.
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memory scanner for Linux.
scanmem is a debugging utility designed to isolate the address of an arbitrary variable in an executing process. scanmem simply needs to be told the pid of the process and the value of the variable at several different times.
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MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players. Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or infantry on a hex-based map.
MegaMek is a free and open source program that lets you play the tabletop BattleTech game online or against the AI. You can customize units, create campaigns, edit maps, and access the interstellar map with official and custom data.
Reduce the space taken up by games and programs on disk by using native Windows APIs.
CompactGUI transparently compresses your games and programs reducing the space they use without affecting their functionality. It works directly with the Win32 API to achieve the same thing as the native compact.exe command-line tool available from Windows 10 onwards.
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Wolf is an open source streaming server for Moonlight that allows you to share a single server with multiple remote clients in order to play videogames!
A wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks.
Run Winetricks commands for Steam Play/Proton games among other common Wine features, such as launching external Windows executables.
Run Windows in a Bottle. Run Windows software and games on Linux.
Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles!
Mods and Community. Modding made easy.
Auto-install hundreds of mods to get next-level graphics, new gameplay and endless amounts of new content.
Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown game console.
PS4 emulator for PC.
PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++
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This is the Descent 3 open source engine, licensed under GPL-3.0. It includes the '1.5' patch written by Kevin Bentley and Jeff Slutter several years ago and brought to a stable condition by the Descent community.
A Headless Steam Docker image supporting NVIDIA GPU and accessible via Web UI. Play your games in the browser with audio. Connect another device and use it with Steam Remote Play. Easily deploy a Steam Docker instance in seconds.
Create your own gaming platform.
Hoarding video games is fun, but a chaotic list of files on a network share is not. Let GameVault organize everything for you and enjoy a Steam-like experience within the comfort of your own server.
A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet.
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Veloren is an action-adventure role-playing game set in a vast fantasy world.
Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. The game is in active development and enjoys a flourishing player community.
Source: A la découverte de Veloren, le jeu libre à monde ouvert @ Korben :fr:.
GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link).
Artemis Qt is an enhanced cross-platform client for NVIDIA GameStream and Apollo/Sunshine servers. It brings the advanced features from Artemis Android to desktop platforms.
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Stream multiple virtual desktops and games running in Docker!
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Play and create AI-generated adventures with infinite possibilities. Not sure where to start?
A Java-based Sega Mega Drive/Genesis emulator. And other systems too.
Initially created as a Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulator and then evolved to emulate the following systems: Sega Megadrive/32X, Sega Master System/Game Gear, Sega Sg-1000, Colecovision, MSX v1, NES
The turn-based strategy game of Conquer V5, by Adam Bryant and Ed Barlow - GPL v3 licensed
Conquer is the classic multi-player strategy game originally created by Edward M. Barlow and Adam Bryant in the late 1980s.
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Bringing the console gaming experience to PC. A Steam Big Picture based couch gaming OS
Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users.
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Similar to the incredibly useful sleep/suspend function found in consoles like the Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation; suspend your game (and its resource usage) at any time, and resume whenever you wish - at the push of a button.
MineOS is an entire ecosystem of web applications, shell scripts, wikis, and support forums designed to help Minecraft enthusiasts successfully host servers on *nix platforms.
MineOS is a server front-end to ease managing Minecraft administrative tasks. This iteration using Node.js aims to enhance previous MineOS scripts (Python-based), by leveraging the event-triggering, asyncronous model of Node.JS and websockets.
Full Screen Frameless Browser for iOS
Play Xbox Cloud, GeForce Now, and Luna with zero distractions. Wisp removes address bars and clutter so you can focus on the game.
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A one-click GUI tool to safely enable the hidden Xbox full screen gaming experience on Windows 11.
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Headless streaming server for Moonlight clients, written in Rust.
Moonshine lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight. Your keyboard, mouse, and controller inputs are sent back to the host so you can play games remotely as if you were sitting in front of it.
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This educational game demonstrates distributed tracing concepts through an interactive strategy game built with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Alloy. Players learn about trace sampling, service graphs, and observability while competing for territory control.
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THE all-in-one retro gaming console!
Replay all the consoles, arcades, and computers of your childhood.
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The command-line tool for quick, simple deployment and management of Linux dedicated game servers.
Traditionally game servers are not easy to manage yourself. Admins often have to spend hours messing around trying to get their servers working. LinuxGSM is a command-line tool designed to be as simple as possible, allowing admins to spend less time on management and more time gaming.
TrinityCore is an MMORPG framework that's built using C++, and using a back-end of MySQL for the DB content. Trinity was at one point a merger of MaNGOS with many patches submitted by users, that is no longer the case. Trinity is an individual project with a diverse development team, We love to hear from our users too, whether you want to give words of encouragment or if you have code for us to merge into the repo (please file a pull request if you do, we love it when users contribute :) ). Trinity has been cleaned up a lot, and will continue to be cleaned up and optimized over time. Please help us by posting issues, patches, and enhancement suggestions on the tracker.
Sunshine fork - The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device .
Apollo is a self-hosted desktop stream host for Artemis(Moonlight Noir). Offering low latency, native client resolution, cloud gaming server capabilities with support for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs for hardware encoding. Software encoding is also available. A web UI is provided to allow configuration and client pairing from your favorite web browser. Pair from the local server or any mobile device.
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We redesigned Windows for gaming. Atlas is a Windows version designed for gamers. Atlas users can enjoy higher framerate, lowered input delay and latency. Great for people on both low-end system and high-end gaming machine.
Retro-gaming on the Raspberry Pi.
RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi, ODroid C1/C2, or PC into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favourite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set-up. For power users it also provides a large variety of configuration tools to customise the system as you want.
A Self-Hosted & Modern Roleplaying Platform.
Foundry Virtual Tabletop is software that provides an innovative online role-playing experience. The software supports Windows, Mac, and Linux and allows you to self-host a game server that players connect to for free directly through a web browser.
experimental PS5 emulator.
An experimental PlayStation 5 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS.
The great gaming migration to Linux. Xodus aims to bring XBOX PC games to Linux and possibly Mac devices.
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The alternative Android app store.
Aptoide is the fastest growing app store and distribution platform in the world. We are a global platform for global talent. Do you want the world?
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A digital museum of video game levels.
CLICK AND DRAG to look around and use WASD to move the camera
Hold SHIFT to go faster, and use MOUSE WHEEL to fine tune the speed Z toggles the UI.
A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.