Home

Awesome

Minigalaxy

A simple GOG client for Linux.

screenshot

Features

The most important features of Minigalaxy:

In addition to that, Minigalaxy also allows you to:

Backwards compatibility

Minigalaxy version 1.3.2 and higher change some aspects of windows game installations through wine. It will try to adapt already installed games to the new concept when launched through Minigalaxy.

The windows installer in wine now uses a 2-step attempt to install games.

  1. An unattended installer.
  2. In case this fails, the regular installation wizard will open. Please do not change the
    install directory 'c:\game' given in the wizard as this an elementary part of the wine fix.

Supported languages

Currently, Minigalaxy can be displayed in the following languages:

System requirements

Minigalaxy should work on the following distributions:

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

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

Installation

<a href="https://repology.org/project/minigalaxy/versions"> <img src="https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/minigalaxy.svg" alt="Packaging status" align="right"> </a> <details><summary>Debian/Ubuntu</summary>

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

<pre> sudo apt install minigalaxy </pre>

You can also download the latest .deb package from the <a href="https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy/releases">releases page</a> and install it that way.

</details> <details><summary>Arch/Manjaro</summary>

Available the <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minigalaxy">AUR</a>. You can use an AUR helper or use the following set of commands to install Minigalaxy on Arch:

<pre> git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/minigalaxy.git cd minigalaxy makepkg -si </pre> </details> <details><summary>Fedora</summary>

Available in the <a href="https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/minigalaxy">official repositories</a> since Fedora 31. You can install it with:

<pre> sudo dnf install minigalaxy </pre> </details> <details><summary>openSUSE</summary>

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

<pre> sudo zypper in minigalaxy </pre>

Alternatively, you can use the following set of commands to install Minigalaxy on openSUSE from the devel project on <a href="https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/games:tools/minigalaxy">OBS</a>:

<pre> sudo zypper ar -f obs://games:tools gamestools sudo zypper ref sudo zypper in minigalaxy </pre> </details> <details><summary>MX Linux</summary>

Available in the <a href="http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/minigalaxy/">official repository</a>. Please use MX Package Installer or Synaptic instead of manually installing the .deb from the repo.

</details> <details><summary>Solus</summary>

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

<pre> sudo eopkg it minigalaxy </pre> </details> <details><summary>Void Linux</summary>

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

<pre> sudo xbps-install -S minigalaxy </pre> </details> <details><summary>Flatpak</summary>

Available on <a href="https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.sharkwouter.Minigalaxy">Flathub</a>. You can install it with:

<pre> flatpak install flathub io.github.sharkwouter.Minigalaxy </pre> </details> <details><summary>Other distributions</summary>

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

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

This will be the development version. Alternatively, a tarball of a specific release can be downloaded from the <a href="https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy/releases">releases page</a>.

</details>

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:

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

Other GOG tools

Special thanks

Special thanks goes out to all contributors: