Community Catalogue

The community catalogue

The Community tab shows the community catalogue: games with recipes that players have tested and shared, the same as on the website. Browsing and installing don't need an account.

Finding a game

• Search (the search field in the toolbar) matches every word you type against titles, publishers and descriptions.
• Filter narrows the list by Genre, Graphics layer and minimum Rating; Clear Filters resets them.
• Sort orders by title, rating, or most recently reported.
• Refresh downloads the latest catalogue. If the list is empty (the first time, or offline), Download Recipes fetches it.

A game's page

Click a game to open its page:

• screenshots from contributors' test runs (from the community check);
• the game's details and links (publisher, developer, release year, genres, website);
• each recipe, with its rating for Macs like yours (from reports on similar Macs, grouped by the report key shown under your Mac's summary in the sidebar), its settings (graphics layer, Windows version, winetricks components, tuning), the recipe file itself, and the reports behind the rating.

Recipes are ranked by how they ran on Macs like yours, so the first one is usually the one to try.

Installing

Install… on a recipe shows what Distiller will do (which publisher's installer it downloads, from where) and waits for you to confirm. The install then runs in the install window, and the game appears in My Library.

Each install makes a new bottle, so you can install a second recipe for the same game to compare them; the confirmation says when you already have a copy.

Contributing

Recipes come from players. To add one for a game you got working, see Creating recipes and Sharing recipes. Reporting how a recipe ran on your Mac (Report How It Ran…) improves the ratings for everyone with a Mac like yours.