Playhub

Everything you need before you press Play

Playhub brings everything you need for couch gaming into one app: Gaming Mode, Decky, your game library, and Big Picture customization.

When you first launch Playhub, its mascots guide you through setup.

Built for the living room

• Launch straight into Big Picture: Gaming Mode handles transitions between your game, dashboard, and desktop.
• Decky, all in one place: install, update, and repair Playhub plugins from a single interface.
• Unified library: bring Xbox, Microsoft Store, Epic, and GOG games, along with other apps, into Steam.
• A consistent look: Playhub themes and a CSS Loader profile come ready to use, complete with the required assets.
• Game Bar when you need it: the controller shortcut is disabled in Big Picture and re-enabled only for Xbox or Microsoft Store games that need it.
• Guided repairs: a single check finds and fixes what isn’t working.
• Easier support: when needed, Playhub prepares a report that’s ready to share.
• Built-in updates: check for, download, and install app and plugin updates directly from the interface.
• A growing Plugin Store: discover the 100 most recently published plugins and receive catalog updates from the public Playhub repository.
• Gaming history on demand: On this day loads stories and images as you browse, keeping the installer lighter.

The Playhub family

More available plugins:

• Playhub Artworks — manage covers, banners, backgrounds, logos, and icons with your controller;
• Playhub Notifications — notifications and volume overlays that match your chosen theme;
• News — headlines in the QAM and a full-screen Newsstand;
• Weather — current weather and forecasts, also available in Steam’s top bar;
• Playhub Surround — guided controls for stereo, 5.1, and 7.1 sound systems;
• Proton VPN — control the Proton VPN client for Windows from the QAM.

Download and installation

1. Open the latest release;
2. Download Playhub-Setup.exe;
3. Run the installer, choose your language, and select Install;
4. On first launch, let Playhub check Steam, Decky, and Gaming Mode.

Playhub installs for the current Windows user. Windows 11 x64 is recommended; on Windows 10, the app uses a solid dark theme instead of acrylic effects.

Open source

Playhub uses open-source components including UWPHook, VDFParser, and SharpSteam. Full licenses and attributions are collected in Source/Playhub/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt.

Playhub is released under the MIT license.

Media, image sources, and trademarks

Playhub may display third-party screenshots, game artwork, box art, photographs, logos, characters, and other editorial media. These materials are not claimed as original Playhub content: copyright, trademark, and other rights remain with their respective owners.

Where available, the editorial data keeps the source page or source URL associated with an image. These references are provided for attribution and verification and may point to official publisher or developer pages, press materials, archival collections, Wikimedia Commons, or other publicly accessible sources. Source availability, licensing terms, and permissions can change over time, so each image must be evaluated under the terms that apply to its original source before it is redistributed or reused.

Playhub is an independent project. The inclusion of a third-party image, logo, or product name does not imply sponsorship, endorsement, partnership, or ownership by Playhub. Third-party media should not be extracted from Playhub and redistributed as a standalone image collection, and commercial or promotional reuse requires permission from the relevant rights holder unless an applicable licence or legal exception allows it.

If you are a rights holder and believe that an image is incorrectly attributed, lacks a required credit, or should not be included, please open an issue in this repository with the affected file or source URL and the requested correction or removal. This notice describes the project’s handling of media; it is not legal advice and does not create a blanket licence for any third-party material.

Community and support

Playhub is built on people working together and on the freedom of ideas and words; it condemns every form of hate, bullying or discrimination based on the supremacy of a platform, an operating system or a game console. Respect for people comes first, and behaviour that goes against it will not be tolerated.

Playhub and its creator ZazaMastro are not responsible for any content, message, post or publication coming from the community.

Decky Loader on Windows has NO OFFICIAL SUPPORT from the Decky Loader team. All support requests for Windows will be ignored by that team. Contact Playhub support for the Windows integration.

Please do not ask the Decky team for support on Windows: it is not officially supported there. Decky and Playhub are two separate things, so please use the Playhub subreddit for questions or help. From our side you will always get a hand, whatever your platform, and with the greatest respect for people.