Playdock

A Mac dashboard for the Windows games (and programs) you're already running through Wine - built on top of the Sikarugir engine, not instead of it.

Steam is the front door: 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.

Installing

Homebrew:

brew install --cask jasonilization/playdock/playdock

Manual: 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:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Playdock.app"

Requires Sikarugir Creator to already be installed, with at least one Wine engine downloaded (~/Library/Application Support/Sikarugir/Engines/) - that's the engine this app reuses.

Contact & Support

thesuperjasonprocoolisplay@hotmail.com

Found a bug or want a feature? Open an issue - that's the fastest way to get it seen and tracked.

Why this exists

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.

How it fits with 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.

What it does

• 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 .exe onto 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.

Building from source

No Xcode required, just Swift + Command Line Tools:

./Scripts/build_app.sh        # swift build -c release, assemble Playdock.app, codesign
./Scripts/make_dmg.sh 1.2.0   # package dist/Playdock-1.2.0.dmg

What's new

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 (Shelves, Sidebar, List, Steam-style, Poster Carousel, plus the default Grid) and 10 real visual skins, each rendering the actual mockup HTML/CSS it was designed from (Neobrutalist, Cyber Terminal, Vaporwave, and seven more) rather than an approximation - genuinely different worlds, not the same cards recolored. Every skin supports both light and dark appearance and follows the system setting. Also in this release: custom games' small icons show real art instead of placeholder colors, the Sidebar and Carousel layouts had real bugs fixed, 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).