Irori vs Playnite

Playnite is a well-loved, open-source library manager for Windows. It gathers games from many stores through extensions and launches them through each store’s own client, and its community has built a large catalogue of themes and add-ons.

Different jobs

Playnite organizes the launchers you already have. Irori is the launcher for Epic Games, GOG, Amazon Games, ZOOM Platform and itch.io: it signs in, downloads, verifies, updates and repairs games itself, and syncs Epic and GOG cloud saves, so those store clients don’t need to be installed at all.

Where Irori differs

• Linux and macOS. Playnite requires Windows 10 or 11. Irori runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and runs Windows games through Wine, Proton, CrossOver or Game Porting Toolkit.
• Managed emulators. Both have emulation. Irori installs and updates the emulators and RetroArch cores from their projects, checks your BIOS files and picks an emulator per system.
• Big Picture on the Steam Deck. Irori opens its controller interface by itself in the Deck’s Game Mode.
• Several accounts per store, in one library.

Where Playnite is ahead

• Breadth. Playnite’s extensions reach more stores and services than Irori’s built-in support, including ones Irori doesn’t cover.
• Customization. Its community themes and extensions go far beyond Irori’s bundled themes.

Which to choose

On Windows, if you want a highly customizable front end over the store clients you already use, Playnite is excellent. If you play on Linux, macOS or a Steam Deck, or would rather not run the store clients at all for Epic, GOG and Amazon, Irori is built for that.

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