Introduction

What is Teatro?

Teatro is a self-hosted library server for your DRM-free Windows games and console ROMs. It keeps game files on your disk, stores their catalog in SQLite, and gives you a browser interface to organize and download them.

A single Rust server provides both the player library and the administration interface. There is no separate database service and no frontend build step to run the application.

How it fits together

Your server

Stores the catalog, game files and cached covers. You choose the machine and storage.

Your browser

Open / to browse and download. Open /admin to import games, edit metadata and follow Jobs.

Your player

Play on your own device. Dependency-aware clients can use Teatro's focused ROMM-compatible API for complete grouped downloads.

Teatro does not emulate or launch games, execute Windows installers, or include ROMs. Bring only files you have the right to possess and use.

What you can do

• Upload games or scan your managed library, then browse by platform or search across the collection.
• Keep multi-file games together with explicit .cue, .gdi and .m3u relationships.
• Connect IGDB for metadata matching and cached covers, or edit entries yourself.
• Import owned GOG offline installers with an opt-in extractor that packages Windows ZIPs without running the installer.
• Use separate administrator and read-only accounts for library management and everyday downloads.

Choose your next step

• Set up TeatroBuild a local Docker image or run directly from a source checkout.
• Add your first gamesPrepare files, import a title and check the result in Jobs.
• Protect your libraryUnderstand network access, account roles and consistent backups.

Want to see the browser first? The interactive library preview shows real games with sample library data and never connects to a real server.