Automatically scans your game library folder
Load additional information about the games from IGDB
Display your library in a modern web frontend
Download games directly from your browser
Search and filter your game library
Offline-friendly (once the library has been scanned everything is cached locally)
Easy to host yourself thanks to native Docker support (alternatively it's only one .jar file to run on bare metal)
Light and dark theme

Differences to other game library software

In the past I used Grifter to manage my game library, and I was (and still am) happy with it.
However, Grifter has some limitations that I could not work around, so I decided to develop my own app.

Grifter does not support auto-discovery of games in your library folder. Instead, you have to manually add all files and their corresponding IGDB-slugs to a config file. Also, Grifter only supports to download one file per game. Since I also have games consisting of multiple files I was not able to download them from the browser with Grifter. Gameyfin fixes both these limitations: It can scan your library for games and automatically match them on IGDB to load additional information. It can also deal with games consisting of multiple files by packing them into a .zip folder in realtime if necessary.

Installation

General

Since Gameyfin loads information from IGDB, you need to register yourself there. Follow this guide.

Docker

Download the docker-compose.example.yml file from this repository and rename it to just docker-compose.yml
Edit the configuration values to your liking
Run docker-compose up -d

Bare metal

Make sure you have a JRE or JDK with version 18 or greater installed
Download the latest gameyfin.jar and gameyfin.properties file from the releases page
Edit the config options in the gameyfin.properties file
Use the following command to start Gameyfin: java -jar gameyfin.jar
Open the address of your Gameyfin host in your browser, Gameyfin runs under port 8080 by default