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Build a personal Steam-like gaming platform for your video game collection (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Arr guys,

Recently, I came across an app called GameVault on r/selfhosted and wanted to share it here. It's like a customized Steam-like platform for games stored on your seedbox or fileserver you can run yourself on your server.

You and your family can then use the Windows app to download them, track your playtime and so on. The idea is pretty neat and like Jellyfin/Kodi but for videogames.

The developers cannot officially promote piracy, so they have a scary disclaimer on their page, but the app works perfectly fine and everything is formulated "tounge in cheek"-ish.

Personally, I have about 25 "alternatively obtained" games on my seedbox-server by now, and it's working fine for me and my kids.

If you have basic Linux-server knowledge, setting it up is not difficult. For complete beginners, there's a guide on their website: https://gamevau.lt/docs/intro

Side note: I'm definitely not the dev, and my username is just an anagram for that by coincidence.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a fun idea, but that is a whole lot of work when i can just drag and drop a folder to achieve the same result.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not the same. You will have no idea how long you've played that game you can't browse, sort and share your games etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes i can, i use playnite.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I use twitter. So, let me piss on mastadon. I use reddit. So, let me piss on lemmy. /s.

Seriously, stop pissing on alternatives just because they don't work for you. More choice, is generally a good thing (with the exception of streaming services....)