SteamJar is a tool that helps you add all of your non-steam games to Steam.
It will search for games from all supported game launchers from all known sources (Bottles, Wineprefixes) and add them as a non-steam applications.
Additionally - when missing pictures are detected, this tool will download them from SteamGridDB if you wish.
| Container | Support | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bottles | ✅ | Fully supported |
| Steam | ❌ | Planned |
| Wine | ❌ | Planned |
| Launcher | Support | Note |
|---|---|---|
| GOG Galaxy | ✅ | Fully supported. Works great. |
| Ubisoft Connect | ✅ | Fully supported. |
| Epic Games Store | 🚧 | Works in desktop mode. In game mode launches in the background. |
| Origin | ❌ | Planned sometime in the future |
Download installer from here or here. Save the file and run it. If the file opens in the text editor - copy the file to the desktop and run it from there.
Manual method
Download the repository from here.
Unzip it and run the installer by clicking on the SteamJarInstaller.desktop file.
Uninstalling
Just remove the ~/.steamjar directory.
- Optionally Press
Refresh gamesbutton to search for games - Enable or disable shortcuts. Disabled shortcuts will be removed when saved
You can enable all by clicking on theEnable allbutton - Optionally Click on the
Download imagesbutton to download missing grid images - Exit Steam if you haven't already
- Click on the
Save changesto save enabled shortcuts to Steam
Things to do, sorted by priority.
- Adding games from Origin
- Check if running games from EGS directly works / works better
- Check if running games from UbiConnect directly works / works better
- Code cleanup and documentation (types)
- Ability to edit shortcuts
- Ability to change images when editing
- Tests
- Juicify GUI - icons, tooltips, padding
- Adding standalone games
- Backing up your shortcuts, multiple sets?
There are two commandline options:
--cli- Forces the use of a CLI interface--gui- Forces the use of a GUI interface. It will fall back to CLI if GUI fails.
