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  # Cartridges

  A GTK4 + Libadwaita game launcher

  [![GNOME Circle][circle-image]][circle-url]
  [![Translation Status][weblate-image]][weblate-url]

  [![Flathub][flathub-image]][flathub-url]
  [![Discord][discord-image]][discord-url]
  [![Matrix][matrix-image]][matrix-url]
  [![Installs][installs-image]][flathub-url]

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# The Project

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

## Features

- 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](https://www.steamgriddb.com/)
- Searching for games on various databases
- Animated covers
- A search provider for GNOME

For updates and questions, join our [Discord server][discord-url] (bridged to [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#cartridges:matrix.org))!

## Donations
I accept donations through [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/kra-mo).

Thank you for your generosity! 💜

# Installation

## Linux

### Flathub

The app is available on Flathub.

<a href=https://flathub.org/apps/hu.kramo.Cartridges><img width='240' alt='Download on Flathub' src='https://dl.flathub.org/assets/badges/flathub-badge-en.png'/></a>

## Windows

### From Releases

1. Download the latest release from [Releases](https://github.com/kra-mo/cartridges/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.

### Winget

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

## Building manually

See [Building](https://github.com/kra-mo/cartridges/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#building).

# Contributing

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/kra-mo/cartridges/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).

Thanks to [Weblate](https://weblate.org/) for hosting our translations!

# Code of Conduct

The project follows the [GNOME Code of Conduct](https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/CodeOfConduct).

See [CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md](https://github.com/kra-mo/cartridges/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).