How to add itch.io games to the Steamdeck
I’m currently setting up some alternative game stores on my Steamdeck, specifically Emudeck for my retro collection, Heroic Launcher1 for GOG and Epic, and also itch.io. I stumbled across this Reddit post that recommended to use the itch.io Windows launcher instead of the native Linux one: Itch.io has an app, that even has linux version. But it has issues - it can only use one wine version, if you have it installed globally, it can’t even handle linux games well. It pretends to install them, and when you launch them it opens a directory with the zip file… Or it just doesn’t work after installation. Then you need to add all the games to steam, setup their images, and other stuff. There’s boilr for that, but it doesn’t find everything, and most of the indies are not in the database anyway. ...