Arcadia

All your games in one beautiful library.

Arcadia automatically finds your Steam, Epic Games, Xbox / Game Pass and desktop games, shows them with real cover art, and launches any of them with a single click.

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Automatic scanning — finds Steam, Epic Games, Xbox / Game Pass and desktop-shortcut games on its own, and re-scans silently on every launch (added games appear, uninstalled ones disappear, your data is kept).
• 🖼️ Real cover art — Steam games come with store covers; for the rest you can add your own free SteamGridDB key to fetch real covers. Minecraft ships with hand-drawn cover tiles, and anything without a cover gets a clean branded tile.
• ▶️ One-click launch — click a card and the game starts (Steam protocol, .exe, or shortcut).
• 🟢 Running indicator & force-close — a running game is marked live; click the red × to close it instantly (and its companion apps with it).
• 🤝 Companion apps — link apps (Discord, FACEIT, overlays…) to a game so they open together.
• 🗔 System tray — keeps running in the background when closed; right-click the tray icon for your most-played games. Optional launch-at-startup.
• 🎨 Logo customization — change the accent color and the logo (color / shape / symbol); the Windows taskbar icon updates live.
• ⭐ Favorites, search & sorting — A→Z, recently added, recently played.
• 🌍 Multilingual — 6 languages, auto-detected from your PC.
• 🌙 Minimalist dark UI — cover grid, smooth hover effects, frameless window.

🌐 Language support

Arcadia ships in 6 languages and picks one automatically from your Windows locale (you can change it any time in Settings → Language):

Language		Language
🇹🇷 Türkçe	Turkish	🇯🇵 日本語	Japanese
🇬🇧 English	English	🇰🇷 한국어	Korean
🇩🇪 Deutsch	German	🇪🇸 Español	Spanish

Auto-detect: Turkish/Azerbaijani → Turkish, German → German, Japanese → Japanese, Korean → Korean, Spanish → Spanish, everything else → English.

📸 Screenshot

⬇️ Download & Install

1. Download Arcadia-Setup-1.0.2.exe from the Releases page.
2. Run it (see the SmartScreen note below).
3. Follow the installer — Arcadia adds Start-menu and desktop shortcuts and opens automatically, then scans your games.

Uninstalling keeps your library and settings (they live in %APPDATA%\Arcadia).

⚠️ "Windows protected your PC" (SmartScreen)?

This warning is normal and expected — it does not mean anything is wrong with Arcadia. To continue:

More info → Run anyway

Why it appears: Windows SmartScreen warns about any installer that isn't signed with a paid code-signing certificate from a Certificate Authority. Code signing is unrelated to whether a project is open source — many trustworthy open-source apps show the exact same warning until their author buys a certificate.

Because Arcadia is fully open source, you don't have to take the prebuilt installer on trust — you can read every line of the code and build it yourself; the result is identical. Signed, warning-free releases will follow if the project gets a code-signing certificate.

🖼️ Cover art (optional SteamGridDB key)

Steam games already have covers. To fetch real covers for non-Steam games (Valorant, League of Legends, etc.), add your own free SteamGridDB key:

Settings → Cover Art (SteamGridDB) → paste your key.

Get a free key at steamgriddb.com → Preferences → API. The key is stored locally on your machine only and is never shared.

🚀 Build from source

Requirements: Node.js 18+

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the app
npm start

# Build the Windows installer (output in dist/)
npm run dist

🧩 How it works

Source	How it's found	How it launches
Steam	reads libraryfolders.vdf + appmanifest_*.acf	steam://rungameid/<appid>
Epic	ProgramData\Epic\...\Manifests\*.item	com.epicgames.launcher:// deep-link
Xbox	main .exe under XboxGames\<Game>\Content\	direct .exe
Shortcuts	desktop .lnk / .exe (game clients & launchers)	the shortcut
Folders	.exe files in folders you add	direct .exe
Manual	a .exe / .lnk / .url you pick via "Add game"	opens the file

Library and settings are stored in %APPDATA%\Arcadia\library.json.

🗂️ Project structure

arcadia/
├── main.js              # Electron main process + IPC, tray, icon
├── preload.js           # Secure renderer bridge
├── src/
│   ├── library.js       # Library & settings store
│   ├── launcher.js      # Game launching
│   ├── vdf.js           # Steam VDF/ACF parser
│   ├── sgdb.js          # Optional SteamGridDB cover lookup
│   └── scanners/        # steam, epic, xbox, folders, shortcuts
├── renderer/            # UI (HTML / CSS / JS)
├── assets/              # Logo, icons, screenshot
└── build/make_icon.py   # Generates the app icon from the logo

🛠️ Regenerating the icon

The logo lives in assets/logo.svg. To regenerate the PNG/ICO versions (Python + Pillow):

npm run icon   # or: py build/make_icon.py

📄 License

MIT © 2026 Samet Ege