BoilR automatically adds (almost) all your games to your Steam library (including image art).
It uses the Steam 3rd party shortcuts feature and does not require you to set up anything. The goal is that you do not have to leave your Steam library to launch games from other launchers/stores, so that you can find all the games that you have available. Optionally, you can set up BoilR to automatically download artwork from SteamGridDB.
- Download the latest release from the releases page.
- Run the executable.
- Click Import Games.
- Restart Steam to see your new shortcuts.
If you are on Linux (or a Steam Deck) you can install BoilR from flathub. There is also an AUR package
- BoilR
- Show games from other platforms in your steam library
- Automatically download art from SteamGridDB
- Customize your Steam games art
- Backup your shortcuts
- Cross Platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, Steam Deck)
- Standalone / No install needed
- Small (~3mb on disk)
- Lightweight (~30mb ram)
- Fast synchronization (~1 second)
- Epic Games Store
- Itch.io
- Origin
- GOG
- UPlay
- Lutris
- Legendary
- Rare
- Heroic Launcher (Linux Only)
- Amazon Games (Windows Only)
- Flatpak (Linux Only)
- XBox/Microsoft Store integration
- Get a SteamGridDB API key
- Run BoilR
- Put the auth key in the input in the settings
- Click "Import games"
I currently don't have a steam deck, which slows down development for it a bit. There might still be problems specific to the deck, so if you run into one please check the issues.
If you have a problem launching a game, try to manually set a proton version for it.
If you are running linux (this includes Steam Deck) and are running into problems check tips for linux seciton
Most people will not have to configure anything, just open BoilR and click Synchronize, but it is possible to configure a lot, see the configuration section
In previous releases there was both a CLI and UI version of BoilR, now there is only a UI version.
But you can add the commandline argument --no-ui
and then the UI version will act like the old CLI version.
This saves some CO2 from not having to build 2 versions of BoilR for each platform, and it also makes development easier.
If you are a coder, you are very welcome! You can fork this repo and then create a pull request. To run BoilR just write:
cargo run
If you are not a developer (or you don't like to code in Rust) do spread the work and create issues/discussions for anything.
Check that there is not already an issue for it here If not, create a new issue and I will have a look at it (remember to write which OS you are using).
Check out the discussions and feel free to create new discussions for your idea.
Nope, please don't, donate it to your favorite charity instead, and if you don't have one of those may I suggest something like GiveWell.
This project is dual license MIT or Apache 2.0 , it is up to you. In short, you can do what you want with this project, but if in doubt read the license files.
This tool turns things into Steam, therefor boiler, And it is written in Rust so therefor: BoilR