Beacon Game Launcher v1.8.18

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About this app

Developer Description

Transform your device in a game console

Does not contain games or emulators.

⭐️ Beacon is an Android launcher designed to enhance your classic gaming experience.

⚙️ Add your preferred emulators, curate your retro game collection, and launch games directly from the app.

🎮 Your retro game library is enriched by automatically scraping cover art and metadata.

What's New

Fixed IGDB scraping
Better full-screen handling on devices with a notch

Version Information

Version: 1.8.18
Downloads: 10K+
Updated on: Nov 26, 2025
Released: Aug 24, 2023
Requires: Android 7.0

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Beacon Game Launcher - Google Play Rankings

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#7 in Top Paid Personalization in United States

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#9 in Top Paid Personalization in Spain

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#13 in Top Paid Personalization in Canada

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Beacon Game Launcher users say on Google Play

★★★★★

H M

Exactly what I've been looking for. I've tried others like Daijisho and Emulation Station but nothing compares to the polish and sleekness of this interface as well as the ease of use. Not a ton of customisation but whats there is already really great so not really a need to change too much. Simple and easy to set up, as well as having the best way to quickly access all your android apps as though using a normal android App Drawer, perfect for an Android based handheld.

★★★★

David Roethlein

Fantastic front loader, my only gripe is no way to add game shortcuts created using winlator or gamehub. The ability to add them as games under the android game system would be a fantastic addition

★★★

Shivansh Rawat

good bit has bugs, exporting backup and importing it doesn't work, after synching my ps2 library my entire Nintendo switch library disappeared

★★

Jordan

Truth be told, overall this is a great application. However, I’m rating it poorly because the developer has a bad attitude. I suggested a feature (ability to change nav sounds), and then got either kicked or banned from the discord server because apparently making a duplicate issue breaks a server rule and is grounds for action. As a developer myself, I get the frustration with duplicates… but I’m not going to dig through your backlog to find them. That’s your job as the maintainer. Not ours.

★

rin zu

Decided to give some suggestions and the developer handwaved them away based on some arbitrary rules that they made. Just in case the developer replies: You broke rule 69 as described in the ancient texts.