June 2016

Ever since steam allowed to add non steam games to it that it become my gaming hub having all my games there ready to be launched.

However every big developer/publisher has it’s own launcher these days which means trying to use steam as a launcher doesn’t always work as intended.

I originally discovered a solution in a reddit post, it worked but felt very clunky so I fired up Visual Studio to see if I could do any better.

The result was bnetlauncher. While not the most elegant solution it does work. and makes adding current and future blizzard games to steam a lot easier.

Additionally I have also the full source code under GPL for those who take their security very seriously or are simply curious about what’s actually happening under the hood.

To use just add it as a non-steam game and put in the appropriate case sensitive code in front as a parameter like in the screenshot bellow.

Downloads

Warning: The downloads below are outdated and buggy, please grab the current version from http://madalien.com/stuff/bnetlauncher/

bnetlauncher_v14.zip
bnetlauncher_v14_src.zip

bnetlauncher_v15b.zip (Beta version that should fix crashing issue)