A game launcher for Windows and macOS
Bring the games on your drives into one library, find something to play and pick up where you left off. Typhon helps with downloads, installation and updates.
Find games on your drives and launch them from one library with covers and playtime tracking.
Queue your downloads and set a speed limit to leave bandwidth for everything else.
After downloading, Typhon checks the files, unpacks the archive and starts the installer.
Covers, descriptions and screenshots help you rediscover games you have been meaning to play.
Optional: a profile, friends, an online status and sync between computers. Everything else works as a guest.
Make room on your drive: move your library through Typhon with file verification.
An installed game can be handed to another computer on the same network instead of downloading it again.
Typhon offers new launcher versions automatically. Interrupted update downloads resume when your connection returns.
Library
Typhon scans your drives and finds installed games; anything installed through it lands in the library straight away. Every game shows its version, size, install date and playtime.
Installed
When a source publishes a release newer than the one you have, the game is flagged in the list. From there you can update, launch or remove it without leaving the section.
About your games
Typhon looks the title up and fills in the cover, description, release date, genres, developer, publisher and screenshots. Everything it downloads stays in a local cache and opens without a connection.
Game data provided by IGDB. Typhon is not affiliated with or endorsed by IGDB or Twitch.
How it works
Search the sources you added, or scan your drives.
A BitTorrent download with a queue and a speed limit.
Typhon verifies the files, unpacks the archive and runs the installer.
Launch from the library; playtime is counted for you.
Local-first
Your library, sources, downloads and installations are stored on your computer. Magnet links, infohashes, file lists and download history are never sent to Typhon services.
The game title goes to the Typhon metadata service, which looks the entry up in IGDB. Typhon fetches a source feed directly from the host you gave, bypassing its own servers. While downloading over BitTorrent, your IP address is visible to other peers in the swarm. Every 30 seconds an anonymous signal reports whether the launcher is running and whether a game is open, carrying a random session id - no account token, no history, and it can be turned off in the settings. Usage statistics and error reports are sent only if you agree to them.
Optional. As a guest you still get the library, downloads, installation, launching and the covers and descriptions. Signing in adds a profile, friends, an online status, an activity feed and sync of your library and settings between computers.
The details are in the privacy policy.
Bring installed games into one library or add your own release source. You can start without an account.
Typhon runs as a Mac application. CrossOver handles Windows game installation and launching; compatibility varies by game.
LAN sharing is designed to send an installed game to another computer on the same network without downloading its game files from the internet again.
Start with the stage that failed. Downloading files, installing and launching a game need different checks.
Colors, radii, spacing and fonts in one small file. How to write it, import it and restore the default appearance.
What was added, improved and fixed in each release. Published notes in one place.
Settings, library, sources, downloads, installations, the metadata cache and the log live in %APPDATA%\Typhon. The games themselves stay wherever you installed them. Delete that folder and this local data is gone.
The library, downloads, installation and launching do not depend on them and keep working. Signing in and fetching new metadata will not work; covers and descriptions you already have come from the local cache.
Windows 10 version 1809 or newer, 64-bit. There is a build for Apple Silicon Macs: it runs Windows games through CrossOver, which is a separate paid program. There is no Linux build, and we are not naming a date.
Three separate things. Every 30 seconds an anonymous signal reports whether the launcher is running and whether a game is open: a random session id, the app version, the OS and the architecture. It carries no account token, the record lives on the server for about 90 seconds, no "who was online when" history is kept, and the "Launcher online status" switch turns it off. The installation id and the catalogue id of the game are added to it only while usage statistics are on. Anonymous usage statistics and anonymous error reports are two separate switches: the app asks about them once on first run and sends nothing until you answer, with neither of them checked in that prompt. All three switches are in Settings under Privacy, where a "Show what was sent" button opens exactly what went to the server.
Typhon ships with no sources: you add the feed address yourself. Typhon requests the feed directly from that host, and keeps no source directory of its own, published or otherwise.
