Minigalaxy

A simple GOG client for Linux.

Features

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

Supported languages

Currently, Minigalaxy can be displayed in the following languages:

Brazilian Portuguese
Czech
English
Dutch
French
Finnish
German
Italian
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Swedish
Taiwanese Mandarin
Turkish
Ukranian

System requirements

Minigalaxy should work on the following distributions:

Debian 10 or newer
Ubuntu 18.10 or newer
Linux Mint 20 or newer
Arch Linux
Manjaro
Fedora Linux 31 or newer
openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap 15.2 or newer
Gentoo Linux
MX Linux 19 or newer
Solus
Void Linux

Minigalaxy does not ship for the following distributions because they do not contain the required version of PyGObject:

Ubuntu 18.04
Linux Mint 19.3
openSUSE 15.1

Other Linux distributions may work as well. Minigalaxy requires the following dependencies:

GTK+
Python 3
PyGObject 3.29.1+
Webkit2gtk with API version 4.0 support
Python Requests
gettext

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu

Available in the official repositories since Debian 11 and Ubuntu 21.04. You can install it with:

sudo apt install minigalaxy

You can also download the latest .deb package from the releases page and install it that way.

Arch/Manjaro

Available the AUR. You can use an AUR helper or use the following set of commands to install Minigalaxy on Arch:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/minigalaxy.git
cd minigalaxy
makepkg -si

Fedora

Available in the official repositories since Fedora 31. You can install it with:

sudo dnf install minigalaxy

openSUSE

Available in the official repositories for openSUSE Tumbleweed and also Leap since 15.2. You can install it with:

sudo zypper in minigalaxy

Alternatively, you can use the following set of commands to install Minigalaxy on openSUSE from the devel project on OBS:

sudo zypper ar -f obs://games:tools gamestools
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper in minigalaxy

Gentoo

Available in the Metahax overlay. Follow the instructions in the link to install Minigalaxy on Gentoo.

MX Linux

Available in the official repository. Please use MX Package Installer or Synaptic instead of manually installing the .deb from the repo.

Solus

Available in the official repositories. You can install it with:

sudo eopkg it minigalaxy

Void Linux

Available in the official repositories. You can install it with:

sudo xbps-install -S minigalaxy

Other distributions

On other distributions, Minigalaxy can be downloaded and started with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy.git
cd minigalaxy
scripts/compile-translations.sh
bin/minigalaxy

This will be the development version. Alternatively, a tarball of a specific release can be downloaded from the releases page.

Support

If you need any help using Minigalaxy, feel free to join the Minigalaxy Discord server. Bugs reports and feature requests can also be made here.

Contribute

Currently, help is needed with the following:

Reporting bugs in the issue tracker.
Translating to different languages. Instructions here.
Testing issues with the "needs testing" tag.
Working on or giving input on issues with the "help wanted" or "good first issue" tag. Also check out the the wiki for developer information.

Feel free to join the Minigalaxy Discord if you would like to help out.

Other GOG tools

LGOGDownloader, a GOG client for the command line

Special thanks

Special thanks goes out to all contributors:

makson96 for multiple code contributions
Odelpasso for multiple code contributions
TotalCaesar659 for multiple code contributions
SvdB-nonp for multiple code contributions
tim77 for packaging Minigalaxy for Fedora, Flathub and multiple code contributions
larslindq for multiple code contributions
graag for multiple code contributions
lmeunier for multiple code contributions
BlindJerobine for translating to German and adding the support option
zweif contributions to code and the German translation
JoshuaFern for packaging Minigalaxy for NixOS and for contributing code
stephanlachnit for upstreaming to Debian and multiple code contributions
sgn for fixing a bug
otaconix for fixing a bug
phlash for fixing a bug
mareksapota for fixing a bug
zocker-160 for code cleanup
waltercool for contributing code
jgerrish for improving the download code
s8321414 for translating to Taiwanese Mandarin
fuzunspm for translating to Turkish
thomansb22 for translating to French
ArturWroblewski for translating to Polish
kimmalmo for translating to Norwegian Bokmål
EsdrasTarsis for translating to Brazilian Portuguese
protheory8 for translating to Russian
LordPilum for translating to Norwegian Nynorsk
dummyx for translating to simplified Chinese
juanborda, advy99 and LocalPinkRobin for translating to Spanish
Newbytee for translating to Swedish
Pyrofanis for translating to Greek
mbarrio for translating to Spanish
jubalh for packaging Minigalaxy for openSUSE
gasinvein for packaging Minigalaxy for flathub
metafarion for packaging Minigalaxy for Gentoo
SwampRabbit and Steven Pusser for packaging Minigalaxy for MX Linux
karaushu for translating to Ukrainian
koraynilay for translating to Italian
heidiwenger and jonnelafin for translating to Finnish
jakbuz23 for translating to Czech

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