Your library

Everything you add lives in your library: Steam games, other stores, emulators, or any program at all.

Sail's library page with two games and the Continue playing banner — The library, with the "Continue playing" banner for your last game.

Adding games#

Import from a store#

Open Settings → Library Management. Sail can find and import what you already have installed:

Auto-Import Steam Games finds your Steam library folders and adds every installed game.
Auto-Import Epic Games and Auto-Import GOG Games do the same for the Epic Games Launcher and GOG Galaxy.

Settings, Library Management tab with the three import buttons

Add anything else#

Click + Add Game, give it a name, and choose its program (an .exe, .bat or .lnk on Windows). Pick where it comes from under Platform / Store, and optionally a cover image. For a Steam game, Sail can use its Steam App ID to fetch artwork and details.

For a console game, tick Is this a console ROM?, then choose the emulator and the ROM file. Launch arguments can use %rom% for the ROM's path, like -fullscreen "%rom%". (Emulator games aren't on Linux yet.)

Add a game you downloaded yourself#

Got a game as a ZIP, RAR or 7z, for example from your browser? On the Game Downloads page, under Add a game you already downloaded, type its name and click Choose archive…. Sail unpacks it and sets it up for you.

The game page#

Click a game to open its page: artwork, Play, your play time and achievements, and its details.

A game page with the Play button and the game's tools

☆ adds it to your favorites.
Sync Saves backs up and syncs its saves (see Saves and backups).
Steam Workshop opens its mods, for Steam games.
Manage Game changes how it launches (below).

Manage Game#

Everything about how one game starts:

Run as administrator, or with high CPU priority (Windows).
Launch options (command-line arguments).
A companion app or mod tool that starts with it, like WeMod.
Scripts that run before it starts and after it closes.
On Linux: which Proton it uses, DLL overrides and Windows components. See Windows games on Linux.
Its files, a desktop shortcut, and a backup of the whole game folder.

The Manage Game window on Linux — Manage Game on Linux, with the Proton options.

Editing a game#

Right-click a game in your library and choose Edit Game to change its name, program, cover art or save folder.

Keeping it tidy#

Folders: click + New under Folders in the sidebar to group games your way.
Favorites and the dynamic folders (Recently Played and Never Played) fill themselves. You can show or hide them in Settings → Extra.
Search, Sort and Filter sit above your games.
Select Mode picks several games at once, so you can remove them together.
Surprise Me picks a random game when you can't decide, Stats shows your play time across everything, and Big Picture is a full-screen view for the couch.

Last updated 20 October 2026