Minigalaxy

A simple GOG client for Linux that lets you download and play your GOG Linux games

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:

Select in which language you'd prefer to download your games
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

Features not in Minigalaxy:

Installing games meant for other platforms

Supported languages

Currently Minigalaxy can be displayed in the following languages:

English
Dutch
French
German
Polish
Taiwanese Mandarin
Turkish
Brazilian Portuguese (incomplete)
Norwegian Bokmål (incomplete)

System requirements

Minigalaxy should work on the following distributions:

Debian Buster (10.0) or newer
Ubuntu 18.10 or newer
Arch Linux
Manjaro
Fedora 31+
openSUSE Tumbleweed
Gentoo
MX Linux 19

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

Installation

Ubuntu/Debian

Download the latest deb package from the releases page and install it.

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 official repos (F31+)

sudo dnf install minigalaxy

openSUSE

Available in official repos for openSUSE Tumbleweed. 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 in the Metahax overlay. Follow the instructions in the link to install Minigalaxy on Gentoo.

MX Linux

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

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
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" tag. Also check out the the wiki for developer information.

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

Known issues

Expect to see the following issues:

Changing the installation directory makes Minigalaxy unable to detect previously installed games
Updating games has not been implemented yet

Special thanks

Special thanks goes out to all contributors:

Odelpasso for multiple code contributions
BlindJerobine for translating to German and adding the support option
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
jubalh for packaging Minigalaxy for openSUSE
tim77 for packaging Minigalaxy for Fedora
metafarion for packaging Minigalaxy for Gentoo
SwampRabbit and Steven Pusser for packaging Minigalaxy for MX Linux

giancluciano/minigalaxy