Get the xWire client
Your friends list, chat, voice rooms, the in-game overlay and playtime tracking, in one desktop app. It already points at this network — install it, sign in with your xwire.us account, and you are online.
Windows your system
Installing
Run the installer. It installs for your account only, so it doesn't need an administrator, and starts xWire when it's done.
The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say it "protected your PC". Choose More info, then Run anyway.
macOS your system
Installing
Pick Apple Silicon for an M-series Mac, Intel for an older one ( → About This Mac tells you). Unzip it and drag xWire into Applications.
xWire isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open
System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and choose Open Anyway.
Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/xWire.app
Voice chat asks for the microphone the first time. Screenshots and recording need Screen Recording under Privacy & Security; restart xWire after allowing it.
Linux your system
Installing
.deb — sudo apt install ./xWire-*.deb, then open xWire from your app menu.
AppImage — chmod +x xWire-*.AppImage and run it.
Arch Linux — sudo pacman -U ./xWire-*.pacman. It's a normal pacman package
(Manjaro, EndeavourOS and other Arch-based distributions included); remove it with
sudo pacman -R xwire-client.
On Ubuntu 24.04 and newer, if the AppImage closes straight away, start it with
--no-sandbox or use the .deb, which sets the sandbox up properly.
Game detection
Every version knows the built-in catalog of source ports and emulators (GZDoom, DOSBox, ScummVM, RetroArch and more). On Windows and macOS it also picks up anything started from a Steam, Epic, GOG or Xbox games folder; on Linux, Steam and Wine/Proton games. Anything else can be added from Settings → Games in the client.
Another server
The client connects to xwire.us out of the box. To use it with a different xWire server, choose Change server on the sign-in screen.
Verify a download
Every build's SHA-256 is printed beside it. sha256sum (Linux),
shasum -a 256 (macOS) or certutil -hashfile … SHA256 (Windows) should match.