Squid Surprise
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Any time you install a game, either from Steam, Epic, etc, there is always an option to have a shortcut to the game itself placed on your desktop.... or anywhere else... I simply have a folder called "Games" on my desktop and have moved all my game shortcuts into it...A little off topic, but speaking of launchers, I have become a big fan of Playnite launcher (https://playnite.link/).
It will show and launch all of my games, instead of having to check Steam, GOG Galaxy, Uplay, Origin, Battle.net, Epic, and whatever other locally installed games I had such as Crimson Skies, C&C3, etc. It works better than adding non-Steam games to the Steam app (they don't always work well if they need Origin or something else to properly launch) and better than the The My Games tab of the Windows 10 Xbox app. (I did check out Launchbox, but I don't remember why I wasn't crazy about it.)
You can import games from the services above, and it will launch from the service if required. You can scan any folder for games, and you can manually select games it does not recognize. It can even display Steam, GOG, etc. games that are not currently installed.
The developers seem to be pretty responsive to requests, bug reports, etc.
I hope this does not sound like a commercial. I am not employed or paid by Playnite. I just really like it.
Simply a matter of double-clicking the game I want to play...
And watching billion-dollar companies fight out who gets a larger slice of the pie doesn't really concern me - the more "fighters" the merrier, as competition brings out better prices and quality for all of us plebeians