Posted December 01, 2021
Playnite seems to do the job well enough but it's also an open source project that somewhat resembles modding a game like Fallout 4, you (may) want to add various add-ons that can be difficult to set up, especially the theme mods that then support other mods (or not).
Generally default installation seems to work fine after you jump through hoops to get all the stores set up, same as Gog galaxy, really. Most common stores come with the download and there's built in "mod manager" to download more if needed.
Main drag to my mind is that the details view does not show the small game icons for e.g. Epic or Origin, presumably because Playnite doesn't know how to extract this data from those stores. EGS library shows SOME icons but majority of the games don't, the integrated IGDB doesn't apparently support these icons. If you add SteamgridDB metadata add-on, you get some additional icons and if you add Universal Steam source, you get practicall all of them, but the latter slows down re-scanning for metadata quite a bit.
So far so good, but for regular user GOG Galaxy is probably much easier to set up than Playnite. I've got some 120 mods on my Fallout 4 game including Horizon so I'm not a stranger to fiddling with plugins but probably most gamers will go with whatever is installed by default. The initial library scan takes much longer than with GOG, granted I've got 1141 titles spread over the different stores but still this is rather slow progress based on how long it takes to retrieve one item.
Videos don't appear to be supported and I'm not inclined to mess with them, it seems to be somewhat involved business available through add-ons only.
Generally default installation seems to work fine after you jump through hoops to get all the stores set up, same as Gog galaxy, really. Most common stores come with the download and there's built in "mod manager" to download more if needed.
Main drag to my mind is that the details view does not show the small game icons for e.g. Epic or Origin, presumably because Playnite doesn't know how to extract this data from those stores. EGS library shows SOME icons but majority of the games don't, the integrated IGDB doesn't apparently support these icons. If you add SteamgridDB metadata add-on, you get some additional icons and if you add Universal Steam source, you get practicall all of them, but the latter slows down re-scanning for metadata quite a bit.
So far so good, but for regular user GOG Galaxy is probably much easier to set up than Playnite. I've got some 120 mods on my Fallout 4 game including Horizon so I'm not a stranger to fiddling with plugins but probably most gamers will go with whatever is installed by default. The initial library scan takes much longer than with GOG, granted I've got 1141 titles spread over the different stores but still this is rather slow progress based on how long it takes to retrieve one item.
Videos don't appear to be supported and I'm not inclined to mess with them, it seems to be somewhat involved business available through add-ons only.
Post edited December 01, 2021 by Barleyman