A minimal (cli) Game launcher for linux written in rust

_{^{this program uses ZenVer from z3 and above}}

Prerequisite

You need to have umu-launcher installed, it used to be managed by game-rs but it needs it's installation steps now, it is pre installed for the nix version.

Install

Arch linux

Install AUR packages game-rs (Thankyou proledatarian. very cool) & umu-launcher

Other distros

cargo install --path . and you can find your way of installing umu-launcher here

For Nixos

You can do nix run to run it or you can add it as a package in your configuration

#flake.nix
{
  inputs = {
    game-rs.url = "github:amanse/game-rs";
  };
}

and then you can add it in your packages with

{
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    game-rs.packages.x86_64-linux.default
  ];
}

You can also use Cachix to get binary cache
To add cachix:

{
  nix.settings = {
    substituters = ["https://game-rs.cachix.org"];
    trusted-public-keys = ["game-rs.cachix.org-1:fsu+ijfA2GCUE2QX0af80D7x9PCZS79EZbqwtOtlIhA="];
  };
}

cachix works with both adding as a package and just doing nix build or nix run

Usage

game-rs config to go into interactive config mode where you can add, edit or delete the games in config
game-rs run to get a fuzzy select menu of all the games in config, selecting it runs the game
game-rs run <id> to directly run the game with specified id
game-rs run -v to run in verbose mode game-rs download --help to see what you can download manually, but you will probably not need this