Onyro
Free couch game launcher for Windows
Your PC games, from the sofa.
Every game you've installed from Steam, Xbox, Epic, GOG, EA, Ubisoft, Battle.net, Rockstar, Riot and itch.io, on one shelf you drive with a controller. Games launch through the launchers you already use. Onyro does not sell games.
0.2.9-beta. Free. Updates come from the Microsoft Store.
Get Onyro freeWindows 10 21H2 or later. 4 GB RAM. DirectX 11. A controller is recommended.
Every launcher. One shelf.
Onyro reads what your launchers have already installed and puts every game on one full-screen shelf. No plug-ins to install, no accounts to link, no setup evening.
Games start through their own launcher, so saves, achievements, cloud sync and updates work the way they do today.
Desk once. Sofa after.
Pick the start-up helper on first launch. Once Windows is signed in, switching on a controller opens Onyro, or brings it to the front.
Onyro steps aside while you play and ignores your buttons, apart from the 3-second mouse chord. Other launchers are minimised, never closed, so downloads keep running.
Everything Onyro moved out of the way comes back when the game exits.
Select opens Power options: exit Onyro, restart or shut down the PC. Each one asks first.
Select + Start, 3 seconds
Hold Select and Start for three seconds (Create and Options on a PlayStation controller) and the right stick drives the Windows mouse pointer. A or the right trigger clicks, and the left trigger right-clicks. Hold both again to hide it.
Use it on a publisher pop-up, a browser, or any window that ignores the controller. Windows doesn't let apps like Onyro click admin (UAC) prompts, so those still need a mouse.
Xbox and PlayStation, out of the box
Xbox controllers, PlayStation DualSense and DualShock 4 over USB or Bluetooth, and controllers with an XInput mode, such as many 8BitDo, GameSir, Flydigi and PowerA models. Button prompts switch to match the controller in your hand. Keyboard and mouse work too.
Exit, restart or shut down with a confirmation each time. Optional: sleep the PC, or shut it down when you switch the controller off.
When Onyro closes, it switches Bluetooth controllers off so nothing stays on. Wired and dongle controllers are left alone.
Once a game starts, the game decides which controllers it accepts. Onyro starts each game through its own launcher, so Steam Input keeps working for Steam games.
Free. Private. Light.
No paid tier and no locked features. Donations are optional and change nothing.
No account, no sign-in, no ads. Your library stays on this PC. The only request Onyro makes on its own is an update check that sends the Onyro and Windows version numbers.
Near-zero CPU while Onyro waits on the shelf, and it steps aside while you play. Updates install through Microsoft Store.
Honest comparison
Brilliant for Steam games, with Steam Input for almost any controller. Games from other stores need manual shortcuts. Onyro finds them all on its own.
Microsoft's full-screen mode for Windows 11, with the Game Pass catalogue built in. Onyro gives you a couch shelf on Windows 10 (21H2 or later) as well as Windows 11.
Free, open source and endlessly customisable, but each store needs setting up first. Onyro has nothing to set up.
Questions
Onyro is a free, couch-first game launcher for Windows 10 and 11. It finds the games already installed by Steam, the Xbox app, Epic Games, GOG, EA app, Ubisoft Connect, Battle.net, Rockstar Games Launcher, Riot Client and itch.io, and puts them on one full-screen shelf you drive with a controller.
Yes. Onyro has no paid tier and no locked features. You can donate if you want to, and donating changes nothing in the app.
Xbox controllers, PlayStation DualSense and DualShock 4 over USB or Bluetooth, and controllers with an XInput mode, such as many 8BitDo, GameSir, Flydigi and PowerA models. Keyboard and mouse work too. Inside a game, the game decides which controllers it accepts.
Yes. Hold Select and Start for three seconds (Create and Options on a PlayStation controller) and the right stick moves the Windows pointer. A or the right trigger clicks and the left trigger right-clicks. Hold both again to hide it.
Yes. Select opens Power options: exit Onyro, restart or shut down the PC, and each one asks first. You can also turn on sleep, or have the PC shut down when you switch the controller off.
Yes, if you pick the start-up helper on first launch. Once Windows is signed in, switching on a controller opens Onyro or brings it to the front. It can't wake a PC that is asleep or switched off.
Yes. Onyro runs on 64-bit Windows 10 version 21H2 or later and on Windows 11.
It covers the same couch idea with a different focus: every launcher with no setup, a built-in controller mouse and power from the sofa. The full comparison shows where each one is the better pick.
No. Onyro lists and launches games you already have, through the launchers you already use. It does not sell, supply or modify games.
No account, no sign-in, no ads. Your library stays on this PC. The only request Onyro makes on its own is an update check that sends the Onyro and Windows version numbers and nothing about your games.
From the Microsoft Store. Updates arrive through the Microsoft Store as well.
Free on Microsoft Store. No account, no paid tier.
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