A Mac dashboard for the Windows games (and programs you might want to run) you're already running through Wine - built on top of the Sikarugir engine.
Steam is the main feature here: install it once, and Playdock shows your library as a proper grid -
box art, a short description, your account's name and avatar - with a big icon you double-click to
open Steam itself, same as you would on the desktop. Drag-and-drop .exe support is still in here
too, tucked under "Exe Loader" in the sidebar for when you just need to run something once.
NOTICE: Due to skool reasons, Playdock had a much slower rate of development for a while. Development is active again, with changes landing directly on main as regular commits. Thanks to everyone who's liked, used, or followed this lil side project ❤️
More screenshots (Steam-style, Carousel)
Homebrew:
brew install --cask jasonilization/playdock/playdockManual: grab the .dmg from Releases and drag the app into /Applications.
Either way, it's signed with a free Apple Development identity rather than a paid Developer ID, so it's not notarized - Gatekeeper will call it out as being from an unidentified developer on first launch. Right-click the app → Open, or go to settings, and under privacy and security, click open anyways. You can also do this in the terminal via:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Playdock.app"Nothing else to install - Playdock downloads and sets up its own Wine engine and runtime libraries
automatically on first launch. If Sikarugir Creator is already installed with an engine downloaded
(~/Library/Application Support/Sikarugir/Engines/), Playdock reuses that instead.
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Found a bug or want a feature? Open an issue - that's the fastest way to get it seen and tracked.
Wine wrapper tools are great once you've built a wrapper. But "I just installed a game in Steam, why do I need to build anything" is a real gap, and that's what this fills - point it at a Steam bottle and it just works, no per-game setup. This means you won't have to do all the messy configuration steps in sikarugir.
Playdock doesn't reimplement Windows compatibility - it reuses whatever Wine engine Sikarugir
Creator has already downloaded to ~/Library/Application Support/Sikarugir/Engines/, extracting
its own private copy of it. Everything Playdock touches under ~/Library/Application Support/ExeDock/ is its own - a separate bottle for Steam, a separate default bottle for
everything else - so it never writes to, or otherwise disturbs, Sikarugir Creator or any wrapper
app it's already built. (Yes, the folder's still called ExeDock internally - that's what this
project used to be called before the Steam-first rework, and renaming it on disk would silently
orphan anyone's existing bottles. Not worth it for a folder name nobody sees.)
If you need per-app engine builds, a specific DXVK/MoltenVK combo, or want to hand someone a distributable wrapper for one program, that's still Sikarugir Creator's job - Playdock is the "just let me play my games" layer on top, not a replacement for it.
Sikarugir Creator itself has to be installed by you - there's no real download URL for it baked into this app on purpose. Guessing at one and silently fetching it felt like a bad idea, so if it's missing, Playdock just tells you and waits.
- Steam dashboard - your installed games as cards (art + description pulled from Steam's public store API, cached locally), your account name/avatar read straight out of Steam's own local config, double-click the Steam icon to launch it. Games installed through the real, separate macOS Steam client show up right alongside your Windows-via-Wine library too.
- Custom Game Library - import any Windows game folder (or a lone
.exe) that isn't on Steam. Import moves it into Playdock's own managed bottle automatically, so it launches through the same engine as everything else - no per-game setup. - Advanced Mode (off by default) - per-game engine/graphics/sync overrides, for the handful of games that actually need something different from your defaults.
- Exe Loader - drag an
.exeonto the window, or browse any bottle's C: drive Finder-style under the C: Drive tab. - Controller support - a full D-pad/A/B focus loop across the dashboard, detail pages, and a dedicated Controller Mode carousel - not just one screen.
- Setup that gets out of your way - on first launch it finds/extracts an engine and sets up its own bottle automatically; if Sikarugir Creator has more than one engine downloaded, it asks which one to use (with a recommended pick) instead of silently guessing.
No Xcode required, just Swift + Command Line Tools:
./Scripts/build_app.sh # swift build -c release, assemble Playdock.app, codesign
./Scripts/make_dmg.sh X.Y.Z # package dist/Playdock-X.Y.Z.dmgPlaytime, favorites, and a real settings panel (1.3.0) - Playdock finally answers "how much have I actually played this?": real play sessions recorded by watching game processes (no Steam API, no network), shown as hours on grid cards and an activity summary in Game Detail, with Recently Played and Most Played sorts to match. Favorites are real: a heart on every card and the detail pane, a favorites filter in the header, games you never want to see can be hidden outright, and a Recently Added sort joins the library sorts. Every card now shows which kind of game it is (Mac / Windows / Custom badges) with one setting to hide them all. Controller navigation got the rest of the way there: focus rings that follow the real focused card on every web-rendered layout (matched by game id, not position), analog thumbstick navigation, and banner transitions between screens. The whole app is localized into Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, and Portuguese. Settings moved out of a bolted-on sheet into a real in-app panel (Appearance, Personalization, Games, Language, Diagnostics, Engine, About). Game Detail grew capability chips, a More Like This rail, a full-size screenshot lightbox, and an honest reliability banner backed by a diagnostics overview. And the whole thing got quieter: hero/sidebar/filter cross-fades instead of hard cuts.
Real per-skin visual identity + library layouts (1.2.0) - the dashboard's "Library Look" setting (Settings → Library Look) now has real teeth: 6 structurally different layouts (Grid, Shelves, Sidebar, Steam-style, Carousel, Spotlight) and 6 real visual skins (Luxury, Brutalist, Terminal, Soft, Pixel, Minimal), each rendering the actual mockup HTML/CSS it was designed from rather than an approximation - genuinely different worlds, not the same cards recolored. Grid is rendered by a real embedded browser view running the original mockup markup directly; every other layout ports each skin's own card shape, shadow language, button recipe, and art treatment (down to Terminal's scanning CRT overlay) so nothing looks like "just a wallpaper and a font" next to Grid. Every card, in every layout, shows a real per-skin action button with genuine raised, tactile depth - not a flat color fill - matching Grid's own real cards. Cards and buttons can also pick up a subtle tint from each game's own artwork. Every skin supports both light and dark appearance and follows the system setting. Also in this release: a first-launch setup wizard for picking a look, a working search bar and sticky top bar, real Steam box art support, custom games' small icons showing real art instead of placeholder colors, zero-manual-setup installs (Playdock downloads its own Wine engine and runtime libraries automatically), and the old redundant "Library" tab (superseded by Game Mode's own dashboard) is gone.
Custom Game Library + native macOS Steam games (1.1.0) - a Custom Game Library for anything that isn't on Steam, native macOS Steam games showing up alongside your Wine library, a visible "launching…" screen for every game (not just Steam ones), and full controller navigation across the whole app.
Steam-first rework - the app used to be a generic exe launcher first, with Steam bolted on as one feature (back when it was still called ExeDock). This flips that: Steam's dashboard is now the default screen, with real account/game data pulled locally, per-game settings for anyone who wants them, and a launch flow that no longer occasionally starts Steam twice (a real bug from an earlier build - a retry heuristic was misreading Steam's normal "already running, handing off" exit as a failure and launching a second copy on top of it).