Furxel

Credits

The projects, artwork and libraries that contribute to Furxel.

SteamGridDB

Every cover and hero image for a game that did not come from Steam is found through SteamGridDB, an artwork database built and maintained by its community. Furxel would show a wall of blank rectangles without it.

SteamGridDB granted written permission for Furxel to use its API on 20 July 2026. Their one request was credit and a link, which is what this is, and it is also shown inside the app at the bottom of Settings.

Artwork on SteamGridDB is uploaded by people who made it for nothing. If Furxel's library looks good on your machine, that is their doing.

Projects Furxel learned from

How each project contributed to Furxel’s design, data or emulator support.

  • Playnite

    Data used, under licence MIT

    Furxel’s 36 built-in emulator presets use launch arguments, ROM extensions and executable patterns from Playnite’s community-maintained emulator catalogue.

  • Lutris

    Ideas, no code GPL

    Read, not used. Furxel is closed-source, so no Lutris code could enter it and none did. What it gave was facts and approach: that a library sync should carry a watermark instead of pulling everything every time, and that a search box over a library this rich deserves a grammar rather than a substring match.

  • PPSSPP

    Launched, not bundled GPL

    Furxel launches PPSSPP as a separate program, the way you would from a shortcut. Nothing of it is linked, vendored or shipped. The PSP support that reads a game's own metadata was built by studying how the format works, not by borrowing an implementation.

  • Rare

    Ideas, no code

    The shape of Furxel's Discord presence settings. Most launchers ship one on-or-off switch; Rare separates when it broadcasts from whether it names the game, and that turned out to be the thing people actually want.

  • RetroArch

    Launched, not bundled GPL

    Recognised as an emulator like any other, and launched the same way. Its breadth is a large part of why pointing Furxel at a folder of ROMs works at all.

Built with

  • Simple Icons The store marks, in the app and on this page. CC0
  • Tabler Icons Every icon drawn in the app's interface. MIT
  • Inter The typeface, in the app and here. SIL OFL 1.1
  • JetBrains Mono Every figure read as data rather than as prose. SIL OFL 1.1
  • Astro This website. MIT

Steam data comes from the Steam Web API. Furxel is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve, and the full licence texts that ship with the app are in its third-party notices. Something missing or wrongly described here is worth an email to support@furxel.com, and it will be corrected.