The Best 27 LaunchBox Alternatives

  • RetroArch icon

    RetroArch

    What is RetroArch? RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable. It has features few other emulators frontends have, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone iPad Web Blackberry

    Modular System Interface Feature Multi System Emulator
  • Lutris icon

    Lutris

    Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It allows you to gather and manage (install, configure and launch) all your games acquired from any source, in a single interface.

    Free Open Source Linux Web Steam MS-DOS

  • OpenEmu icon

    OpenEmu

    Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

    Multi System Emulator Access the AppStore
  • Playnite icon

    Playnite

    Video game library manager and launcher with support for 3rd party libraries like Steam, GOG, Origin and Uplay, providing one unified interface for your games.

    Free Open Source Windows

    Portable Game launcher
  • D-Fend Reloaded icon

    D-Fend Reloaded

    d-fend reloaded is a graphical environment for dosbox . dosbox emulates a complete computer including the dos commandline and allows to run nearly all old dos based games on modern hardware with any of the newer windows versions.

    Free Open Source Windows DOSBox

  • Boxer icon

    Boxer

    Boxer plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac. There’s no clots of configuration and baffling DOS commands between you and your fun: just drag-drop your games onto Boxer, and you’ll be playing in minutes.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • HyperSpin icon

    HyperSpin

    HyperSpin is an animated arcade frontend for Windows for use on Home Arcade Machines. HyperSpin allows you to create custom menu systems to run most executables with that arcade look and feel.

    Free Windows

  • D-Box icon

    D-Box

    D-Box is an easy to use front-end for DOSBox which enables you to run old MS-DOS games and other applications on a modern computer.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux AmigaOS

  • DBGL icon

    DBGL

    DBGL is a Java frontend for DOSBox, based largely upon the proven interface of D-Fend. DBGL serves as a frontend / Graphical User Interface to DOSBox (configuration)....

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Aurora Game Hub icon

    Aurora Game Hub

    Manage, play and experience your PC Game Library in one slick desktop application.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows

  • Photon Game Manager icon

    Photon Game Manager

    Photon is an advanced game launcher that is designed to make your game collection look amazing.

    Freemium Windows Linux

  • RetroX icon

    RetroX

    RetroX is an Android application that will help you organize and play your own Retro Games with the less possible effort. Put your collection in your device and RetroX...

    Freemium Android

  • GNOME Games icon

    GNOME Games

    Games is a GNOME 3 application to browse your video games library and to easily pick and play a game from it. It aims to do for games what Music already does for your...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • BizHawk icon

    BizHawk

    BizHawk is a multi-system emulator designed predominantly around the production of Tool Assisted Speedruns (TAS). BizHawk focuses on core accuracy and power user tools...

    Free Open Source Windows