Custom Icon being the Gdevelop icon after export

Hello! I’ve searched through multiple forums to fix this problem but haven’t found a consistent answer.

Once I export my game, the desktop icon becomes the default Gdevelop icon.
I have manually changed my custom icon before, and have used the generate logo button, but neither have worked.


It worked for the apk build, but not for desktop.
Is there something I’m missing? Are there any solutions for this problem?
Any help would be appreciated, and if possible, screenshots of the solution would be amazing!

Thanks for reading :slight_smile:

Move it to different folder (exported game)
And check does icon change also

Dragging the exported game into a different folder didn’t change the icon.

I tried with just the .exe and tried with all the game files into a different folder as well.

(I just tried to change my icon photo from a PNG to a ICO file, so maybe that’ll work? I’ll see tomorrow when I export it since I have the free subscription, meaning I have to wait 24 hours.)

I only had once issue with ico being default one
And it was cause i first exported my game to some folder WITHOUT icons
Then removed everything form it and exported it again with generating icons from png

And windows have this bs where it will try to remember icons of files in any folder instead of updating them
And fix for that was to move game to another folder

Other than that i have no idea what can be wrong
And can only suggest to follow this step by step Game icons and thumbnail - GDevelop documentation

The ICO change didn’t work, and I followed the steps on the documentation, and it also didn’t work.

What a strange issue. I appreciate the help reguardless.

If anyone else reads this and has a solution, please let me know.

Look this is not solution but like workaround

Resource hacker can change icon of app

And its fairly easy (just skip to part where he is actually replacing icon)
And you can find TONS of other tutorials how to do it

And works perfectly fine

If no one will be able to help you then this is your option B