597 game folders.
6,196 executable files.
Playnite scanned the executables.
Shelf identified 592 games.
Shelf: 208 seconds
Playnite: 455 seconds
But the bigger difference wasn't the scan time.
After Shelf finished, I had a list of games.
After Playnite finished, I still had to decide which executables were actually games.
To be fair to Playnite: it's free, open source, and great at what it's built for. Its docs point you to "Scan Automatically" for local games, where you pick which executables to add — and games added manually need their Play Actions (and sometimes the working directory) set up before they launch. That gives you full control. I just wanted the software to make those decisions for me.
That's why I built Shelf.
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