Does anyone have a good method of browsing game files that are stored on your Unraid server?

 

For example, i have a bunch of .ISO, .EXE, ZIP files, etc in a Games Share on my server that i have accumulated over the years. Some of through friends, and some as offline backups for my GoG games. I am trying to find a good way to list what i have in that Games share so i can browse what id like to play and then go install it.

 

Manually adding each game to Steam won't work as i don't necessarily want to have them all installed. I am just looking for a nice way to easier show what games i posses the files for, then when i want to play i will install them. I tried using Playnite, it came close, but having a hard time getting it setup. Something like PhotoPrism, but for games. I can go browse what i have instead of list through windows explorer.

 

Would greatly appreciate any insight!

 

 

Was doing little bit more research, and discovered these below. They both have Unraid dockers in the community apps, and from the surface might be what i am looking for. Need to dig into them to see which one I can tweak to my needs.

• Gameyfin
• Gamevault

 

In addition, i found another plugin for Playnite called Simple Game Importer that might serve as a work around. I can copy my Game shares folder structure into Excel and use Excel formulas to remove the file path to get the game. Use Simple Game importer to import all the games via the name, and then i can download the metadata as i go along. Before i do all that i will look into the above.

Wanted to post back in case anyone else is looking.

 

Gameyfin is working great and exactly what i was looking for. Makes it way easy for LAN parties to share my game library without having to give access to the server via windows Explorer. It fetches metadata for IGDB, and allows you to see what oyu have. You can then "Download" it to your computer via browser as a zip file and then you unzip/install the game. Its a great browser and thats it. You cannot modify the metadata though which is unfortunate, but its better than nothing right now.

 

Gamevault looks promising in the future to be a "Steam" for at home. Will keep an eye on it as it develops and they move away from RAWG for metadata as that website is no longer maintained/accessible.

FYI I just released v2 of Gameyfin which allows (among a lot of other features) editing of metadata: https://github.com/gameyfin/gameyfin/releases/tag/v2.0.0
There is no official community app yet as I personally run all my services using docker-compose, but I wouldn't rule it out for the future.

3 hours ago, grimsi said:

FYI I just released v2 of Gameyfin which allows (among a lot of other features) editing of metadata: https://github.com/gameyfin/gameyfin/releases/tag/v2.0.0
There is no official community app yet as I personally run all my services using docker-compose, but I wouldn't rule it out for the future.

Heck yeah this is exciting! I've been loving Gameyfin for a while now, and I've had my eye on v2. Figured it be much longer till release. Nice! This might be the excuse i need to learn to compose it myself haha.

5 hours ago, grimsi said:

FYI I just released v2 of Gameyfin which allows (among a lot of other features) editing of metadata: https://github.com/gameyfin/gameyfin/releases/tag/v2.0.0
There is no official community app yet as I personally run all my services using docker-compose, but I wouldn't rule it out for the future.

You should include some text on your main site and additional text on github to explain why someone would run Gameyfin. At the moment, I can guarantee that anyone coming across those pages isn't going to appreciate what GF might be able to do for them versus any other solution, web-based or otherwise. They won't know if it's a launcher, a manager, local-only, server-based, etc. Working only for Windows games, whether it's suitable for emulation platforms, etc.

Compare to the main site for Gamevault where with a single sentence they lay out the core purpose of that platform.

On 4/28/2024 at 5:40 PM, IaMs12 said:

Wanted to post back in case anyone else is looking.

 

Gameyfin is working great and exactly what i was looking for. Makes it way easy for LAN parties to share my game library without having to give access to the server via windows Explorer. It fetches metadata for IGDB, and allows you to see what oyu have. You can then "Download" it to your computer via browser as a zip file and then you unzip/install the game. Its a great browser and thats it. You cannot modify the metadata though which is unfortunate, but its better than nothing right now.

 

Gamevault looks promising in the future to be a "Steam" for at home. Will keep an eye on it as it develops and they move away from RAWG for metadata as that website is no longer maintained/accessible.

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I am not using anything for PC games, but if someone needs it for Nintendo Switch games i use Ownfoil, it has a nice tracking mechanism for the Update / DLC and it can be used with Tinfoil to download the games directly on the Switch

On 4/17/2024 at 5:32 PM, IaMs12 said:

Does anyone have a good method of browsing game files that are stored on your Unraid server?

 

For example, i have a bunch of .ISO, .EXE, ZIP files, etc in a Games Share on my server that i have accumulated over the years. Some of through friends, and some as offline backups for my GoG games. I am trying to find a good way to list what i have in that Games share so i can browse what id like to play and then go install it.

 

Manually adding each game to Steam won't work as i don't necessarily want to have them all installed. I am just looking for a nice way to easier show what games i posses the files for, then when i want to play i will install them. I tried using Playnite, it came close, but having a hard time getting it setup. Something like PhotoPrism, but for games. I can go browse what i have instead of list through windows explorer.

 

Would greatly appreciate any insight!

 

 

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