Your games, from the couch.

Lamplit is a free, console-style home screen for the gaming PC under your TV. It puts every installed game in one row, from ten stores, and starts each one from the sofa with a controller.

Download for Windows View on GitHub

Free Windows 10 and 11 No telemetry

Lamplit's home screen: a row of game covers along the bottom, the focused game's art and logo filling the screen

Your installed games from

Made for the TV and a controller

A PC under the TV comes with store apps, sign-in windows and pop-ups made for a mouse. Lamplit keeps them out of the way.

Your library

Every game in one row

  • Nothing to set up

    Lamplit finds what your store apps have installed, and games outside any store. Nothing to import or sign in to.

  • Favourites, then last played

    Star the games you play most. Hide anything that isn't a game.

  • Find a game

    Press Square and type "rdr" for Red Dead Redemption 2. Filter by store or sort A to Z.

  • Play time

    How long you've played every game, not only the Steam ones.

  • Art and trailers from Steam

    Covers, backgrounds and logos for games from every store. Stay on a cover and its trailer plays behind it.

  • New installs show up

    Install a game and it's in the row. Steam downloads and pending updates are marked.

A game's menu

Press Options to see what a game is about, look through your screenshots of it, favourite it, hide it or change its art.

  • About this game: Steam's description, who made it and its screenshots.
  • Your captures: the screenshots you took with Steam, Game Bar or the NVIDIA app.
  • Wrong cover? Pick another or search again.
  • Add a game Lamplit missed, with the controller.
  • A stray press can't close a game or shut the PC down.
A game's menu: Titanfall 2's cover lifted over the blurred home screen, and beside it Steam, played 2 days ago, 31 hours, with Play, About this game, Favourite, Change art and Hide this game

Launching

Press Cross and play

Some games need two store apps, like a Steam game that also needs the EA app. Lamplit starts both and waits until they're signed in and up to date.

  • No desktop flashing up between Lamplit and the game.
  • If a launcher wants a click, the starting screen says so.
  • The PC and the TV stay awake through a long update.
The starting screen: Lamplit checks that Steam and the EA app are signed in and up to date, then starts Titanfall 2

While you play

The dock, over your game

Hold PS (View and Menu on Xbox) and the dock rises over your game: volume, sound output, stats and Close game.

  • A frozen game gets Force close.
  • It peeks up when a headset turns on, a controller connects or a battery runs low.
The in-game dock over Cyberpunk 2077: the game's cover and play time, the volume, batteries and time, and Resume, sound output, quiet mode, stats, Home and Close game

Screensaver

Art from your games while nobody plays

Put the controller down and seven live scenes, coloured from your games' art, take over the screen. Nothing static stays on your OLED.

  • The first press ends it without starting anything.
  • After an hour it fades to black.
  • Pick the delay, or switch it off.
The Gallery scene: Far Cry 6, EA SPORTS FC 26, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Titanfall 2 covers in a dark room, reflected on a glossy floor
The Drift scene: Titanfall 2's hero art coming apart into points of light
The Dunes scene: sand dunes at dusk, coloured from Far Cry 6's art
The Ocean scene: a hazy sun over a calm sea, coloured from Cyberpunk 2077's art
The Ink scene: red and pink ink swirling, coloured from Red Dead Redemption 2's art
The Nebula scene: blue, green and red clouds around a dark core, coloured from Far Cry 6's art
The Aurora scene: green northern lights over still water, coloured from Cyberpunk 2077's art

Sound and accessories

Sound settings from the sofa

Switch the output, the microphone and the volume with the controller. Turn on a PRO X 2 headset, or plug headphones into a controller on USB, and the sound moves there. When they go, it moves back.

  • On a Logitech G PRO X 2 LIGHTSPEED: battery, sidetone and auto-off.
The Sound section: output and microphone devices, volume, mute and the sound-follows switch

Quiet mode

No pop-ups over your game

Quiet mode keeps Windows, Game Bar, Ubisoft Connect and Steam pop-ups off the screen. Switch it off and every setting goes back.

  • With Keep the Guide button for Lamplit on, Big Picture stays closed. Steam's window is minimised after a game.
The Settings panel under the batteries, volume and time: Sound, Headset, Controllers, Overlay and pop-ups, Stores, Screensaver, System, Add a game and Power, each with a one-line summary

Controller

Navigate with your controller

DualSense, Xbox and other controllers, several at once. The button hints match the controller in your hands, and Steam and your games still see it as before.

  • Controller batteries where available, and Turn off for a DualSense on Bluetooth.
  • The DualSense touchpad as a mouse, for store apps and Windows dialogs.
  • A keyboard and mouse work too.
The Controllers section: touchpad as mouse, a Bluetooth DualSense's battery, headphones and Turn off, and a wireless Xbox controller's battery

What it works with

Stores

  • Steam
  • Epic Games Launcher
  • GOG, with or without GOG Galaxy
  • EA app
  • Ubisoft Connect
  • Rockstar Games Launcher
  • Battle.net
  • Amazon Games app
  • itch.io app
  • Xbox app, including PC Game Pass
  • Games outside any store

Controllers

  • DualSense, over USB or Bluetooth
  • DualSense Edge
  • Xbox controllers and pads like them
  • DualShock 4 and other controllers Windows knows
  • Keyboard and mouse

Headset

  • Logitech G PRO X 2 LIGHTSPEED, no G HUB needed
  • Any other headset, as a sound device

PC

  • Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit
  • For the dock: games in borderless or windowed mode

Install

One installer, no admin rights.

  1. Download and run the installer

    Download Lamplit-setup.exe

  2. Get past the Windows warning

    Lamplit isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”. Click:

    More info Run anyway

    If Edge holds the download: in its ... menu choose Keep, Show more, Keep anyway. With Smart App Control on, Windows blocks the installer.

  3. Start with Windows

    Open Settings (Triangle), go to System and switch on Start when I sign in. No admin prompt.

    Repair Steam's background service is a separate step. It asks Windows once for admin rights.

Update from Settings > Check for updates, or run the new installer; your settings and art stay. See what Lamplit changes on your PC and how to undo it.

Questions

More in the README, or open an issue.

Does it cost anything?

No. It's free to use, change and share for anything noncommercial. Only selling it isn't allowed.

Does Lamplit replace Steam?

No. Steam games still start through Steam. Lamplit replaces only Big Picture, and games from other stores don't need Steam at all.

How is it different from Steam Big Picture or Playnite?

Choose Big Picture if nearly everything you play is on Steam. Choose Playnite if you want themes, emulators, or a library you shape yourself. Lamplit is for a TV PC that already has games in several stores and should show them all without setup.

My controller isn't a DualSense. Can I use it?

Yes. On an Xbox controller, or a pad like one, hold View and Menu to bring up the dock: the Xbox button belongs to Game Bar. A DualShock 4, a Switch Pro Controller and other pads Windows knows work while Lamplit is on screen.

Is it safe to use with anti-cheat?

Lamplit doesn't inject code into games, hook them or draw inside them: the dock is its own window. It sees a game start and close in Windows' list of running programs, as other launchers do. If an anti-cheat ever objects, open an issue.

Does it send anything online?

Game art requests go to Steam's store: game names, Steam app ids and your country. A game's About page and trailer come from Steam too. Update checks go to GitHub. You can switch off online art and automatic update checks in Settings. No accounts, no telemetry.

How do I remove it?

Uninstall Lamplit from Settings > Apps > Installed apps in Windows. The uninstaller first restores quiet mode and Steam settings and removes the sign-in task. If anything needs attention, it keeps the saved settings and says what to do.

Put your games on the TV

Free for Windows 10 and 11. Install it and pick up the controller.

Download for Windows Release notes