Full Feature List

Advanced Launch Options: Launch games as Administrator or with High CPU Priority.

Automatic EXE Detective: Automatically scans game directories to locate the main game executable.

Companion App Support: Automatically open trainers, overlay applications, or Discord alongside your games.

Pre/Post Launch Scripts: Run custom Batch (.bat) or PowerShell (.ps1) scripts before a game starts or after it exits.

Launch Splash Screen: Premium animated splash screen transitions during launch sequences.

CLI Autolaunch: Launch specific games directly via command-line arguments.

Desktop Shortcut Creator: Generate custom desktop shortcuts (Windows and Linux) linked directly to the launcher.

Live Launch Status: See which game Sail is starting while launch preparation runs.

Crash-safe Playtime Recovery: Active sessions keep bounded recovery checkpoints so playtime can be restored after Sail or Windows closes unexpectedly.

Recoverable Post-game Work: Interrupted save archives, cloud uploads, and other required after-exit work can continue after restart without repeating finished steps.

Save Launch Options: Manage Game keeps your launch arguments, Administrator and High CPU Priority toggles, companion app and scripts, remembers unsaved edits for each game, and has a Discard changes button.

Auto-Import Steam Library: Scans your local Steam directories and imports all installed games in one click.

Ludusavi Save Detection: Checks Ludusavi's published save database for known Steam and manually added game locations first, then falls back to Sail's local folder scanner when needed.

Library Sorting: Sort by name, added date, playtime, favorites, or recently played.

Metadata Downloader: Fetches details, screenshots, descriptions, and banners from Steam API.

Emulator & ROM Support: Add retro systems and run ROMs with customized command-line parameters.

Playtime Tracker: Tracks total play hours and session lengths for every application.

Running Detection: Real-time status updates showing which games are currently running, with a force-stop button.

Global Search: Search the library by game name or tag.

Favorites System: Keep your most played games starred at the top.

Continue Playing Banner: A featured banner above your library grid highlighting your last played game with cover art, playtime, and a quick-play button.

Poster Cover-Tiles: Landscape cover-art tiles by default, with a Vertical (Poster) toggle in Settings → Appearance.

Library Filters & Result Counts: Filter all games, favorites, recently played, never played, Steam games, or custom games while seeing how many results match.

Clear Empty States: The library distinguishes an empty library from a search or filter with no matching games and offers clear or reset actions.

Context-aware Game Pages: Game pages remember whether they were opened from Library, Achievements, Maintenance, or another page and send the back button to the right place.

Uninstall Downloaded Games: Games installed through the built-in downloader can be uninstalled from Manage Game. Only the exact install folder Sail recorded is removed, and you choose whether to delete or keep the game's Sail data.

Compact List View: List view uses compact full-width rows with small thumbnails, with achievement progress, play status and favorites lined up.

Dedicated Achievements Hub: Browse progress across the complete launcher library with overall totals and recent unlocks.

Search, Filters & Sorting: Find individual achievements and sort or filter locked, unlocked, recent, and completion progress.

Game-page Details: Expand achievement lists inside game pages, switch between locked and unlocked items, collapse long lists, and jump back to the top.

Library Progress Badges: Optionally show achievement completion directly on library cards.

Read-only Local Tracking: Watch supported local achievement files without modifying the game or emulator data they came from.

Broad Local-format Support: Read compatible Steam cache, Goldberg/GSE, CODEX, RUNE, OnlineFix, CreamAPI, EMPRESS, SKIDROW, RLD, 3DM/UserStats, Razor1911, and similar records.

Optional Steam Import: Match owned games and retrieve official achievement names, descriptions, icons, artwork, unlock times, and public metadata when available.

Unlock Notifications: Receive achievement notifications while Sail is open, with separate controls for tracking, card badges, and notifications.

Profile-aware Progress: Merge progress across launcher profiles and portable data without regressing unlocks while keeping local source paths device-only.

Steam Unlock Files: Games imported from Steam read Steam's own unlock file while Steam is installed, so achievements you already earned show up. New v6.0.0-beta.1

Emulator Achievements on Linux: Achievement files written by Steam emulators inside a game's Proton or Wine folder are found automatically, so repack games report their progress. New v6.0.0-beta.1

Clear Missing-data Note: A Steam game with a known achievement list but no unlock data on this PC says so, instead of showing a confusing 0. New v6.0.0-beta.1

Built-in Download Engine: Bundled aria2 engine handles direct file-host links and magnet/torrents in-app, with progress, speed limiting, and resume support.

Multi-Source Search: Search SteamGG, FitGirl, and SteamRIP from one page (SteamRIP no longer needs a debrid service), with game-only result filtering, source badges, and real cover artwork when available.

Debrid Service Integration: Connect TorBox, Real-Debrid, AllDebrid, Premiumize, or Debrid-Link with a single API key to unlock filehosts like DataNodes, AkiraBox, and VikingFile, with live connection status and resolved-link caching.

PixelDrain Cloudflare Worker Proxy: Transparently routes PixelDrain downloads through a configurable worker pool to bypass the 10 GB daily rate limit.

Auto-Install & Library Integration: Finished downloads are extracted or silently installed and added to your library automatically with fetched Steam art and metadata.

Multi-Part Archive Handling: Automatically groups and extracts part files, including those nested inside .rar archives, with junk files cleaned up afterward.

Floating Downloads Dock: Live progress, speed, ETA, and current part, with retry, cancel, and "open folder" actions.

Safe Cancellation & Quarantine: Sail reports pending or refused cancellation honestly, waits for owned processes to stop, and keeps temporary data in a bounded quarantine when it cannot be cleaned safely.

Full-size Source Screenshots: Browse screenshots from the actual source gallery without cropping, then open the complete image inside Sail with previous and next controls with mouse, Escape-key, and keyboard controls.

Download Manager Search: Search active downloads and download history without losing the existing game, mod, theme, plugin, or other category filters.

Bulk Failed-download Retry: Retry eligible failed downloads together using their existing resume settings while respecting the concurrent-download limit.

Completed-history Cleanup: Clear completed download history without affecting active, paused, or failed downloads.

Actionable Failure Details: Failed downloads show understandable, privacy-safe error information and a suggested next step; browser/manual downloads are not retried without user interaction.

Host Resolvers & Verification Window: Resolves GoFile, BuzzHeavier, MegaDB, FileDitch, DataNodes, PixelDrain, FileKeeper, VikingFile, Rootz, FuckingFast, FileCrypt and supported torrent links. Hosts that need a real browser check open a small isolated window that never uses your normal browser profile.

Mirror Health Checks: Download pages check mirrors as soon as they open, block confirmed dead ones, and move the 1-click button to a mirror that is confirmed available.

Download Sizes & Size Warnings: Shows sizes beside every option, labelled when they are estimates, and asks before continuing when a download is under 75% of the reported size.

Retry Without Debrid: Retry a failed download straight from the host, reusing the link already resolved (kept in memory for five minutes) so FileCrypt verification is not repeated.

FitGirl Installer Handling: Multi-part repacks install from a separate setup folder and are only added to your library once a real playable executable exists.

Opt-in Experimental Workspace: Enable the complete Maintenance Center from one Experimental setting. It stays off by default and hides its pages, tools, and background operations while disabled.

Installation Health Scans: Scan individual games or the complete library for missing executables, moved installations, changed protected files, failed downloads, save availability, disk space, and other health findings.

Quick & Selective Repair: Rediscover executables, accept moved game roots, create missing baselines, or apply only the repair actions you approve.

Modification Snapshots: Capture files before supported Sail-managed changes and roll back replaced or added files after reviewing the impact.

Save-folder Rescans: Search installations, custom roots, common Windows locations, and other likely locations before choosing the save folder to use.

Preview-first Cleanup: Review safe fragments, archives, installers, caches, snapshots, duplicates, and ambiguous files before removing anything.

Dependency Checks: Check Visual C++ runtimes, DirectX indicators, .NET, Java, emulator firmware hints, and companion apps.

Bounded Maintenance Jobs: Track progress, cancellation, activity, and per-game conflicts without letting maintenance work overwhelm the launcher.

Privacy-safe Diagnostics: Export useful reports with tokens, credentials, unnecessary personal paths, and other sensitive values redacted.

Dedicated Steam Workshop Hub: Browse, search, and install mods for your games inside a dedicated full-page tab.

Steam Workshop Downloader: Download Workshop items anonymously using SteamCMD directly from the game page.

Custom Web Sources: Add and manage custom website URLs (e.g. repacks or mod guides) to browse inside the launcher.

Built-in Web Browser: Integrated web browser with back/forward history buttons and external link navigation confirmations.

Isolated Mods Webview: The Mods tab runs in an isolated persistent partition with Electron-identifying headers stripped, preserving Sail Hub login cookies across launcher restarts and avoiding Cloudflare bot-detection black screens.

Sandboxed Store & Sources: Remote pages use separate isolated sessions with no Node.js access, context isolation, default-deny popups, and safe external-link handling.

Download Location Chooser: Choose custom folders when downloading files from sources.

Automatic Extraction: Handles zipped, raw, RAR, and .7z mod archives automatically (with packaged release fixes).

Frosted-Glass Mode: Enable translucent layouts in settings with fixed background blobs and physics-based spring animations.

Custom Theme Creator: Build custom color schemes, adjusting backdrop blur, borders, fonts, and opacity.

Canvas UI Editor: A full live visual editor — drag, resize, and reposition elements; rename text labels; build per-element or global gradients; apply live CSS animations (pulse, float, glow, spin, gradient-shift, shimmer); edit across multiple pages with a draggable inspector panel; fully compatible with theme import/export.

Animated Backgrounds: Pulse, Grid, Wave, Ripple, and Frost Sweep animations.

Big Picture Mode: Console-style interface with full gamepad navigation, boot sounds, monitor target selection, and fullscreen behavior that works with the normal window controls.

True Fullscreen Controls: The titlebar toggle hides the Windows taskbar and fullscreen docks, changes to a restore icon, and returns to the previous window size when fullscreen ends or the window is dragged.

Collapsible Sidebar: Collapsible folders sidebar with fixed favorites spacing and responsive layouts.

10+ Built-in Themes: Midnight, Cyberpunk, Forest, Neon, and more.

Dynamic Transitions: Sleek slide-up and cross-fade animations on page entry, modal closures, and settings exits.

Custom Fonts: Support for loading external .ttf or .otf files.

Tile Shapes & Scaling: Customize grid layouts with Squircle, Circle, Pill, or Square tiles in multiple sizes.

Resizable Sidebars: Drag both main and social sidebars to customize layout widths.

Motion Controls: Use Less Animations and Animation Speed settings, with decorative motion pausing while the launcher is inactive and reduced-motion preferences respected.

Flat Navigation: The sidebar, page navigation and Settings categories use full-surface highlighting instead of floating pills, and accent colors are kept for selection, actions and focus.

Native Windows Font: Uses Windows' Segoe UI Variable instead of remotely loaded Google fonts.

Native Cloud Save Sync: Sync saves directly with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, or Mediafire APIs.

Auto Settings Sync: Automatically download and import launcher settings and custom themes upon linking a sync provider.

Secure Encryption: Authentication credentials and tokens are encrypted securely using Electron's native safeStorage.

Rolling Local Backups: Automatically backs up save folders locally with a 3-version rolling history.

Cloud Save Restore: Browse and restore previous save states in one click from the UI.

Process Blocking Mode: Option to display a "Syncing…" UI block on game launch/exit to ensure data safety.

Atomic Save Archives: Incomplete save archives are kept separate and are never presented as finished backups.

Post-game Recovery: Checkpointed save archiving and cloud uploads can resume after a launcher restart without applying completed steps twice.

Discord Rich Presence (RPC): Shares your active game status and playtime directly to your Discord profile.

Sail Hub Protocol: Installs themes and plugins directly from the web using sail-launcher:// protocol links.

Friend Activity Bar: Integrates Steam/Discord friend statuses directly in the launcher, now with colored presence dots (🔵 online, 🟢 playing, 🟡 away, 🔴 dnd, ⚪ offline) and soft glow effects.

Packages for every distro: A .deb for Debian, Ubuntu and Mint, an .rpm for Fedora, and an AppImage for everything else.

Windows games through Proton: Runs Windows games with Proton and UMU. Sail can download GE-Proton and UMU for you in Settings → Compatibility. Native Linux games just launch.

Accounts in your system keyring: Your login is stored in KDE Wallet, GNOME Keyring or any Secret Service keyring. With no keyring running, accounts stay off and Sail says why.

Steam Workshop: Workshop downloads through SteamCMD in Sail's own folder.

Downloads and browser checks: Hosts that need a real browser check run it in your installed Chromium browser, or Sail's built-in one. Expired links say so instead of looping.

Emulator achievements: Achievements written by Steam emulators inside a game's Proton folder are found automatically.

Desktop shortcuts and start at login: Add a game to your app menu, and start Sail when you log in.

Hardware Monitor: The Hardware Monitor plugin has a Linux version.

Not on Linux yet: Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox sync, save backups, the Maintenance Center and spell checking.

Plugin settings: A plugin lists its options in its plugin.json and Sail draws the settings window. Saved per plugin on your PC, so updating a plugin keeps them.

Plugin API v2: Plugins can read your games, covers, account summary and downloads, open games or switch pages, and listen for library, page and account changes.

Live enable and disable: Plugins that clean up after themselves can be turned on, off, deleted and re-imported without restarting Sail.

Library Layouts: A plugin that lays Sail out like Steam's library: a menu bar, tall covers, a recent games shelf, a properties-style Manage Game window and a profile page.

First-run setup: New installs get a short setup for the theme, layout, motion, startup behavior and importing games. Existing installs skip it, and you can run it again from Settings.