Hi! Is there a way to stop Lutris from calling lutris.net whenever I add a new game? I know it queries in order to get the cover art, banner and small icon, but it is no one’s business what games I play.
For now, the only way I can achieve this is by firewalling lutris.net, but if there’s a way to make this more elegant included in Lutris, I would much rather prefer that method.
Lutris phoning home after adding a locally installed game:
[proxychains] DLL init: proxychains-ng 4.17
[proxychains] DLL init: proxychains-ng 4.17
2026-01-21 22:30:31,605: The game doesn't have an executable
2026-01-21 22:30:31,607: The game 'a' has no ID, it is not stored in the database.
[proxychains] Strict chain ... 127.0.0.1:9050 ... lutris.net:443
2026-01-21 22:30:31,623: No path found in LutrisConfig(level=game,
game_config_id=a-1769052631, runner=wine)
2026-01-21 22:30:31,623: No path for a (wine)
... OK
[proxychains] Strict chain ... 127.0.0.1:9050 ... lutris.net:443 ... OK
[proxychains] Strict chain ... 127.0.0.1:9050 ... lutris.net:443 ... OK
Tangentially related:
They have no terms of service or privacy policy, which also means they almost certainly violate the GDPR. While it’s all open source, being open source is no excuse for no handling user data properly.
Although I have had no issues running Lutris without an account (the post is from 2018), I cannot in good faith say that Lutris respect user privacy and I am standing wishfully hoping to be proven wrong.
Getting cover arts, banners and small icons
Additionally, I would like to know if the cover arts, banners and small icons are publicly stored somewhere (like a database dump) for people to access and download. As this is still a good aggregator especially for banners, since igdb has cover arts but no banners. I am aware that I can go to lutris.net/games/banners/gamename.jpg, but this method is inelegant and does not support searching, nor do we have access to a directory listing of all the banners.
In another similar vein, I would like to see where we can find the small icons, since they are nowhere to be found on the game page, even when Lutris can find it perfectly fine.