GamePilot
Your games have been recording your life. GamePilot reads it back.
Steam knows your lifetime hours. GOG knows your last-played date. Nobody keeps the part that matters: the Tuesday nights, the month a single game owned you, the backlog title you finally finished at 2 a.m.
GamePilot tracks real sessions across every launcher on your PC — Steam, Epic, GOG, Battle.net, itch, Xbox, emulators and manual installs — and turns them into something you can actually read back: named eras, a persona verdict with the receipts, a memoir for every game, a living diary, your gaming vitals, and a Year in Review that updates all year. It learns what you play and when, and uses that to pick your next game from what you already own, with the reason attached.
And yes, it launches all of them from one place, so you stop scrolling and start playing.
No account. No cloud. No telemetry. No AI in the app — everything it "knows" about you is local math on your own data. Windows 10/11, Linux in beta.
Download
- Windows: GamePilot-Setup.exe — Windows 10/11, auto-updates built in. SmartScreen will warn about the unsigned installer: More info → Run anyway.
- Linux: paused — the Steam-only beta needs hardware validation, so no AppImage ships with the current release. The build stays in the tree (
npm run build-electron-linux) if you want to try it yourself.
- itch.io: https://moz91.itch.io/gamepilot
What it tracks
- Real sessions, not lifetime totals — start, end, length, time of day, across every launcher, offline, with crash recovery and a one-line journal per session
- Gaming vitals — a tracker-style readout: tonight's sessions vs rest days, deep runs vs short hops, your usual start time, this week against your own baseline. Descriptive, never judgemental
- Eras — when a game takes over your life for a month, it gets named ("The Zomboid Era") and the transition is commemorated
- Hall of Champions — the game that won each week, month and year, with hours, longest sitting and share of your play
- A persona with receipts — a character-sheet verdict on who you are as a player, built from the games, sessions and hours that actually earned it. Including a roast, because honesty is the point
- Memoirs — every game gets an auto-written character sheet: sessions, longest run, which era it belonged to, when you beat it
- A living diary — journal notes, first plays, finishes and era changes in one feed, written from real events
- Habits — time-of-day heatmaps, weekday patterns, streaks, monthly recaps, On This Day, and a Year in Review (with shareable slides) that's live all year
- Your Steam achievements per game, with rarity, alongside your own session record
- Shareable cards for all of it — eras, champions, personas, your year, your library
What it does with that
- Mood + time picks from your own library — with a reason attached, not a black box ("0 hours in Far Cry 6, because 'probably finished' is not a recognized status")
- "Finishable this weekend" — backlog games whose remaining HowLongToBeat time fits the time you have
- Trending in your library — live Steam player counts and global chart rank for games you own, not the store chart
- Friends on this game — compare your playtime with friends' public Steam libraries from any game's modal
- Opt-in notifications — a toast when a friend starts a game you own, or a wishlisted game hits your target price
And the launcher part
- Scans and launches games across Steam, Epic, GOG, Battle.net, Riot, itch.io, Xbox, Ubisoft, Amazon, EA, Rockstar and manual installs
- "Owned, not installed" — Steam and GOG games you own but haven't installed, with one-click install deep links
- Edit any game's details — sort name, genres, tags, year, developer, cover art — when the scan gets it wrong
- A wishlist that beats the launchers' own — every store compared side-by-side, price-history chart built from your own daily checks, buy/wait verdicts, review scores, release countdowns, threshold alerts, drag-to-rank, and a giveaway radar for free-game dumps
- Every game's modal is a dossier — memoir, Steam trailers and screenshots, your own local screenshots, achievements, review score, and friends' playtime
- Launch args, alternate executables and attachments per game; merge duplicates across launchers; completion shelves for Now Playing / Beaten / Backlog
- Save backups, rolling session-history backups, an uninstall planner, big-screen TV mode, Discord Rich Presence
- Auto-updates from GitHub releases (Winget and Scoop manifests live in
packaging/)
First-class retro support
- Emulator profiles with auto-detection — finds RetroArch, Dolphin, PCSX2, PPSSPP, DuckStation, mGBA and more already on your PC
- Box art from the free libretro-thumbnails catalog — your SNES shelf looks like your Steam shelf
- RetroAchievements (opt-in) — achievement progress badges on your ROM library
- BIOS detection — advisory warnings before a console fails to boot (PS1/PS2/Saturn/Dreamcast and friends)
- Save/savestate backup through the same safe backup-and-restore pipeline as PC saves
- Region dedupe —
(USA)/(Europe)/(Japan) variants collapse into one entry; multi-disc sets stay intact
What it isn't
- Not a storefront, not a social network, not a Steam skin
- No generative AI in the product — the roasts are hand-written lines chosen by real session data, not a chatbot guessing. Built with AI-assisted development tools; the app itself contains none — point me at the API call and I'll eat the issue
- Doesn't sell anything — there's one build and everything in it is free
- Your data is a folder of files on your PC (
%AppData%\GamePilot / ~/.config/GamePilot), readable and deletable
- A one-person project — expect rough edges. Bugs and requests genuinely welcome in issues or the itch comments
Screenshots
All from the current build on Windows.
| Your story — eras and transitions | Trending in your library |
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| Can't decide? | Your top shelf |
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| Seasonal shelves | Backlog Buster |
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Development
Electron + React (Vite). The renderer also runs standalone for UI work.
npm install
npm start # dev server on :3000
npm run format:check
npx eslint src --max-warnings 0
npx jest --ci # ~1400 tests
npm run build # production renderer build
npm run build-electron-win # packages installer to ~/gamepilot-dist/
License
MIT. Read the code, verify the privacy claims, build it yourself.
