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wait, what? I understand the want for arguments to be passed to the game if you use a launcher. steam has this and I think i even used it once or twice, but can't remember why. Just saves you hte hassle of creating a custom link to the app  with the options. Games should not need this by design. Though it might be needed for some troubleshooting  options.

But html games?  a  command line option?

I think what you really want is this:

an option to launch web games from the app with external browser, instead of the built in browser. 

you would not have access to the save game that was made in the built in browser  or want  features of your regular  browser.

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No, that's not what I want.

You know how you can run a game through Steam without using the interface with steam://rungameid/######?

I want that for the itch app.

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Ahhh. That is what is written in the desktop shortcut, if you let steam create one.

The itch app on windows launches with

 
  itch-setup.exe --prefer-launch --appname itch

So yeah, I would assume you might be able to supply an appname different than itch. I could not do it while testing for a minute. So maybe not. It tries to run name-setup, if write name instead of itch.    But it sure looks, like it should be possible.

So what we want is a way to launch games without opening the itch app interface.