A centralized game library/collection management service with a focus on emulation. Configure once, play anywhere.

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Table of Contents

• Overview
• Core Features
• Screenshots and Recordings
• Roadmap

Overview

Retrom is a centralized game library management service that allows you to host your games on a single device, and connect clients on any amount of other devices to (un)install/download and play them when and where you want to! Think of it as a sort of self-hosted Steam for your DRM-free game library.

Core Features

• Host your own cloud game library service
• Scan your filesystem for games/platforms and automatically add them to your library
• Install/uninstall and play games from the service on any amount of desktop clients.
  • Support for Windows, MacOS, and Linux!
• Access your library from anywhere with the web client.
• Manage emulator profiles on a per-client basis, stored on the server for easily sharing configurations between devices or restoring them after a reinstall.
• Launch all your games across any amount of emulators or platforms via your pre-configured profiles from a single library interface.
• Automatically download game metadata and artworks from supported providers to showcase your library with style!

Screenshots

Home Screen

Game View

Fullscreen Mode

Roadmap

• Basic server functionality
  • Scan filesystem for library items
  • Add/remove library items
  • Edit library items
  • Download metadata
    • IGDB provider
    • SteamGridDB provider
  • Cloud save games / states / emulator NANDs
  • (Multi-)User authentication
  • Publish server binaries, as an alternative to Docker
• Basic client functionality
  • View library items
  • Edit library metadata and artworks
  • Trigger library update jobs
    • Scan filesystem for new entries
    • Download/update metadata for new entries
  • Manage game files
    • rename
    • delete
    • set default (for launching via emulators)
  • Grid view (as opposed to default list view)
  • Fullscreen mode + controller support
• Web (browser) client functionality (in addition to Basic functionality)
  • Download games
  • In-browser emulation via EmulatorJS
• Desktop client functionality (in addition to Basic functionality)
  • Install/uninstall games
  • Configure locally available emulators
  • Configure multiple profiles per-emulator
  • Set default profiles per-platform
  • Launch games
  • Built-in emulator profiles for popular emulators