Games
Games turns Raycast into a single launcher for the games installed on your PC. Grouped with your apps, per-game actions for launching, and smart enough to step out of the way while you play by silencing global hotkeys in Game Mode.
Getting Started
- Open Raycast Settings → Games. The extension is enabled by default. If you've disabled it previously, toggle it on in the top right.
- Type a game's name in root search to Open it.
- (Optional) On the Games settings page, turn on Game Mode to pause Raycast hotkeys while a game window is detected in the foreground.
Discovery
When Raycast is open on your system, it will automatically scan your system for games installed through the following launchers:
- Steam
- Epic Games Launcher
- GOG Galaxy
- Battle.net
- Ubisoft Connect
- EA (EA app / Origin)
- itch.iohttps://itch.io
- Xbox app (Microsoft Store / MSIX titles)
- NVIDIA GeForce NOW
In addition to these launchers, Raycast will treat any app as a game when registered with Windows' Game Config Store.
Game Mode
When Game Mode is enabled, Raycast monitors the active foreground window. If it detects a game (either from Raycast's classification, the Windows Game Config Store, or a full-screen exclusive Direct3D window), it temporarily pauses all Raycast hotkeys. As soon as you switch windows or the game loses focus, hotkeys are resumed.
Game Mode only pauses hotkeys for the active window. Running a game in the background won't pause the Raycast hotkeys.
Tips & Tricks
Search "Games" in Raycast to view all your games and game launchers. If a game is mistreated as an Application, press Ctrl K and select Mark as Game to update the classification. You can also use this to reclassify Applications that are incorrectly marked as Games.