GameLodge 1.0.0

Feels like a console. GameLodge is a controller-first game launcher for Android handhelds, phones, tablets, TVs and Windows PCs. It brings your installed games, your PC stores, your emulated games and the games of your streaming PCs together in one library – with artwork, metadata and play time – and starts each one the right way.

This is the first public release.

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Highlights

• One library – Android apps and games, Steam, Epic, GOG, Xbox, EA, Ubisoft, Battle.net, Amazon and more, ROM folders with your emulators, and the apps of your Sunshine / Apollo / Vibepollo hosts
• Built for the controller – every screen works with a gamepad alone, with button hints for the controller in your hand; touch, mouse and keyboard work everywhere too
• Streaming built in – Artemis on Android, Moonlight on Windows; GameLodge wakes the PC, starts the game, hands every controller over as its own gamepad and puts the PC back to sleep afterwards
• Quick menu – hold Start over any game or stream: volume, Wi-Fi, VPN, hosts, controllers, Home Assistant
• Artwork & metadata – covers, logos, backgrounds and animated artwork from SteamGridDB, descriptions, ratings and time to beat from IGDB, with an editor and review list
• Your PC as host – the Windows app puts the PC's games on Vibepollo, Apollo or Sunshine and shares artwork, metadata and play time with every paired device
• Home Assistant – entity tiles, actions before and after every game, wake-up and sleep for your PCs, MQTT status
• Every screen – layouts for phone, handheld, tablet, TV (Android TV, Fire TV) and desktop, TV mode and an artwork screensaver
• More – filters, groups and Home rows, per-controller settings and shortcuts, mouse emulation, WireGuard VPN, encrypted backups, setup wizard

Downloads

File	For
GameLodge-1.0.0.apk	Android 10 or newer – handhelds, phones, tablets, Android TV / Fire TV
GameLodge-Setup-1.0.0.exe	Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) – brings its own Java runtime and Moonlight
ghcr.io/thecodingdad/gamelodge-metadata-server:1.0.0	Optional metadata server (Docker, amd64/arm64)

Android: install the APK and allow installing from this source when asked. Test builds installed before (signed with a different key) have to be uninstalled first – make a backup beforehand.

Windows: run the setup and choose an installation for your user or for all users.

Credits

Streaming is based on Artemis and Moonlight. Emulator start commands come from ES-DE. Thanks to everyone behind them, and to Sunshine, Apollo and Vibepollo.