I don’t know if this supports what you want but give Phocid a try, you scan library manually (it’s not scanned every time you open the app) and it has folder view (the main reason I’m using it), so you don’t need to change the metadata. It replaced VLC for me, might work for you.
Where are you installing the game (on the disk)?
Maybe it’s some kind of temp folder that gets cleaned after, try some dedicated ie. ~/Games/{game}.
Also, do you keep game files in the prefix or outside it?
I keep my game files outside the prefix, so if you decide to change it, you don’t have to reinstall if something goes wrong. I never had such issue.
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Damn, I need to buy longer socks.
Reminded me of the Minecraft - Mein Kampf fake video. (sorry it’s youtube) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s6-XeyNMCJw
My recommendation is to just try bunch of them and see which one fits your needs or you like using the most.
Try both manual tiling and auto tiling for both X11 and Wayland, one will eventually stick.
I started with AwesomeWM, then tried bunch of other ones , and to my surprise, I found myself using DWM (flexipatch) the most. I’m planning to transition to Hyprland soon.
Just use what you like and don’t pay much attention about the reviews.
When I long press any item it allows me to select multiple items (depending on a category it can be a song, album, artist etc), from there you get a popup and do what you want with the selection (play the selection now, create new playlist from selection, add to the curreny playlist etc.)
I agree, the default behavior depends on which category you have selected. My usecase is pretty simple, I usually just go to a directory I want and play everything from there (usually while driving) and skip what I don’t like, so I never really thought about it.