Ubisoft Connect

Riot Client

The Riot Client is a single desktop application that lets players download, update, and launch Riot Games' portfolio, including League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. It also provides integrated social features, friend lists, and in‑client news and events. Beyond game launch, the client offers account management, cross‑game progression tracking, and quick access to Riot's esports news, store, and community hubs, making it the central hub for Riot's ecosystem.

Uplay

Uplay is Ubisoft's proprietary digital distribution, multiplayer, and communications service designed to enhance the gaming experience across various platforms. It serves as a centralized launcher where players can purchase, manage, and launch their Ubisoft game library while interacting with friends. Beyond basic game management, the platform integrates a rewarding loyalty program called Ubisoft Club, allowing users to earn units through gameplay achievements to unlock in-game items, wallpapers, and game discounts. It also synchronizes game save data across multiple devices using cloud storage.

Playnite

Playnite is a free and open-source video game library manager for Windows that consolidates installed and owned games from Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, EA App, Ubisoft Connect, Battle.net, Xbox, and emulated titles into a single browsable collection. Instead of replacing each storefront's launcher, it detects and imports libraries from them and launches games through their original platform. The interface is fully themeable, from simple color tweaks to complete custom layouts, and a controller-friendly fullscreen mode is built in for couch or handheld use. Its plugin ecosystem, with dozens of community-built add-ons, extends metadata scraping, additional store integrations, and emulator auto-detection, and the project is developed with no telemetry, ads, or hidden costs.

Hydra Launcher

Hydra Launcher is a free, open-source gaming platform built to be a single tool for managing, downloading, and launching a PC game library. It centralizes game discovery and library organization in one place, adds a built-in downloader client, and lets players track achievements, save progress to the cloud through Hydra Cloud, and see what friends are currently playing through user profiles. The project is fully open source under the MIT license and built with Electron, React, TypeScript, Python, and Rust, with active development on GitHub and builds available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Community-made themes can be downloaded to customize the launcher's look, and a recommendation system helps surface new games to try.