A simple GOG client for Linux that lets you download and play your GOG games.
The most important features of Minigalaxy:
- Log in with your GOG account
- Download the Linux games you own on GOG
- Launch them!
In addition to that, Minigalaxy also allows you to:
- Update your games
- Install and update DLC
- Select which language you'd prefer to download your games in
- Change where games are installed
- Search your GOG Linux library
- Show all games or just the ones you've installed
- View the error message if a game fails to launch
- Enable displaying the FPS in games
- Use the system's ScummVM or DOSBox installation
- Install Windows games using Wine
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above. NOTE: This is a Python port. Instead of py312-minigalaxy listed in the above command, you can pick from the names under the Packages section.
To play Linux games, the Linux binary compatibility environment
must be set up and the shebang in the start.sh scripts must be
changed to /compat/linux/bin/bash.
To play Windows games you need to install Wine.
Enjoy!
games/minigalaxy: Update 1.4.0 => 1.4.1
Changelog:
- Installations now report more intermediate steps like checksum
verifications to the UI. (thanks to GB609)
- Fix bugs related to error handling of ongoing installations.
(thanks to GB609)
- Fix an issue where CJK characters in game library path prevents the
config file from being loaded properly. (thanks to kyle-zhang-42)
- Automatically add Weblate contributions to README and About dialog on
release. (thanks to GB609)
https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy/releases/tag/1.4.1
While here replace gettext with gettext-tools in USES - the port is not
linked with libintl, but uses msgfmt to compile translations.
PR: 293348
games/minigalaxy: Add new port
A simple GOG client for Linux that lets you download and play your GOG games.
The most important features of Minigalaxy:
- Log in with your GOG account
- Download the Linux games you own on GOG
- Launch them!
In addition to that, Minigalaxy also allows you to:
- Update your games
- Install and update DLC
- Select which language you'd prefer to download your games in
- Change where games are installed
- Search your GOG Linux library
- Show all games or just the ones you've installed
- View the error message if a game fails to launch
- Enable displaying the FPS in games
- Use the system's ScummVM or DOSBox installation
- Install Windows games using Wine
WWW: https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy
PR: 284721
