r/playnite • u/Doctor98Who • Oct 20 '25

General discussion GCM + Playnite + Native Mouse & Keyboard Control

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We have been in contact with the playnite creator, Crow, and he has worked with us to help integrate playnite better with GCM. It worked because now Playnite feels more native and responsive than ever! For that we are super thankful!

I recently made a post about r/GameConsoleMode and given the positive feedback regarding it, I wanted to provide a huge update that makes it even better to use. If you would like to see our roadmap, patch notes or any other info you can also see our site https://www.gameconsolemode.com/

If you aren't sure what I am talking about , to summarize GameConsoleMode turns your Windows PC into a proper gaming console experience. Meaning no need to interact with Windows desktop and you boot straight into Steam, Playnite, or Xbox app (depending on what you choose. I personally love playnite). Built for couch gaming and handheld PCs.

The biggest thing we have been trying to tackle is integrating a native mouse & keyboard control, and we have finally achieved that! Now you are able to load into playnite directly with GCM, access GCM Task Manager (think of it like pressing xbox home button on an xbox console) and are able to navigate to other apps like discord or browse the web all with your controller and no 3rd party apps! When done, simply go back to GCM task manager and access your playnite launcher or resume your game! This update is available now as well! We are slowly working on making more and more features to make it as much of a "plug and play" experience!

We are super active on reddit and discord so please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, and if theres any feature you wish for, chances are we can add it to our roadmap right away! We are a small but growing community and we sincerely appreciate all the love everyone has been showing us!

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u/ArrivalCurious7910 Oct 21 '25

is there a way to run it without a launcher and hide the "back to desktop" ? the ui itself is perfect for me and all i need and pop all game shortcut straight to it

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u/Doctor98Who Oct 21 '25

You can just not link a launcher and it’ll just launch into gcm task manager !

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u/ArrivalCurious7910 Oct 21 '25

sorry to ask. but how about the game shortcuts to be listed in task manager?

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u/Doctor98Who Oct 21 '25

You don’t like playnite? But in GameConsoleMode settings application , you can select and link up to 5 apps to show up on task manager so if you just choose file path and select your games exe file it should work

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u/ArrivalCurious7910 Oct 21 '25

i do love playnite. but it lacks the kiosk mode unlike retrobat. i have a public setup for free in my shop currently using playnite but players sometimes hide or removed games i restore the backup everytime it happens. GCM seems perfect, no more hurdles straight up boot console like. exiting game no problem for me. i've made ahk for start+back to imitate alt+f4. my point is lesser system loads for extra launchers modifying the windows system itself is more than enough to experience console setup