Although the itch.io web site is nice for discovering video games, supporting creators, taking part in communities, creating recreation jams, and following builders, there are some things that simply don’t work that effectively out of your browser.

We began constructing the itch.io app many months in the past to handle the widespread request of managing your itch.io library, putting in, and operating video games proper out of your desktop.

Today we’re proud to announce that it’s now obtainable concurrently on all three platforms. 

Download right here: https://itch.io/app

Although we’re releasing it at the moment, it’s in alpha state. Please bear with us in case you encounter any bugs or crashes. We’ve arrange an points tracker for reporting any points.

The itch.io web site is right here to remain, we’re not planning on changing it with a desktop app. We purposefully saved the scope targeted to verify we’ve constructed one thing that provides to your itch.io expertise.

Here’s what you are able to do:

• List your library of bought and claimed keys, together with any collections you’ve created
• For any video games (or functions) that help the platform you’re on, you possibly can obtain and set up the sport
• Depending how the sport is packaged, it can set up to an itch.io particular knowledge listing the place you possibly can execute it straight

Because itch.io makes no necessities to the builders for packaging their undertaking, our present course of won’t work with each recreation in your library. We hope to refine and standardize how we set up and execute video games, however within the meantime be happy to open a difficulty if there’s a recreation not working so we will examine.

Open supply

The complete itch.io app is open supply and constructed on prime of open supply expertise. The app is written in JavaScript and runs in Electron. Check out the GitHub repository. If you’re feeling as much as it, you possibly can obtain the most recent growth supply code, and perhaps even contribute your self.

Looking forward

Having a desktop app opens up a variety of alternatives for making the itch.io expertise nice. Automatic updates, and compressed delta updates are a few of the options we’re engaged on and actually enthusiastic about.

We hope you want what we’ve bought thus far and benefit from the issues we’ve got in retailer.

Thanks and luxuriate in!

P.S. You can talk about this publish on the itch.io neighborhood thread: The itch.io desktop shopper is HERE