diff --git a/src/ui/components/Results.test.tsx b/src/ui/components/Results.test.tsx
index cc9e2513..255d4643 100644
--- a/src/ui/components/Results.test.tsx
+++ b/src/ui/components/Results.test.tsx
@@ -521,6 +521,41 @@ const GROUPABLE = [
   t("a1", "Ashfall.1999.1080p"),
 ];
 
+describe("Results play gating", () => {
+  // Games and Books releases are installers/archives/documents, not video —
+  // `v` has nothing sensible to stream, so it's a no-op there. See playSection
+  // in Results.tsx and playApplies in the web UI's searchModel.ts.
+  it("does not stream on 'v' for a Games result", async () => {
+    const streamResult = vi.fn();
+    const gamesList: TorrentResult[] = [{ ...LIST[0]!, source: "fitgirl" }];
+    searchState.current = settled(gamesList);
+    ui = renderUI(
+      <StoreContext.Provider value={makeTestStore({ query: "linux iso", section: "games", streamResult })}>
+        <Results reccConfig={{}} />
+      </StoreContext.Provider>,
+    );
+    const u = ui;
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(u.frame()).toContain(`Results (${gamesList.length})`));
+    u.press("v");
+    await new Promise<void>((r) => yieldToLoop(() => r()));
+    expect(streamResult).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("still streams on 'v' outside Games/Books", async () => {
+    const streamResult = vi.fn();
+    searchState.current = settled(LIST);
+    ui = renderUI(
+      <StoreContext.Provider value={makeTestStore({ query: "linux iso", streamResult })}>
+        <Results reccConfig={{}} />
+      </StoreContext.Provider>,
+    );
+    const u = ui;
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(u.frame()).toContain(`Results (${LIST.length})`));
+    u.press("v");
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(streamResult).toHaveBeenCalled());
+  });
+});
+
 describe("Results grouping", () => {
   // At a WIDE content width throughout. At 80 columns the list has ~61 and
   // "Kestrel (2010)" renders as "Kestrel (…", so every assertion here would be
diff --git a/src/ui/components/Results.tsx b/src/ui/components/Results.tsx
index c5290a54..e0943ed0 100644
--- a/src/ui/components/Results.tsx
+++ b/src/ui/components/Results.tsx
@@ -540,6 +540,10 @@ export function Results({ reccConfig, fetchImpl }: ResultsProps) {
   const previewSection = !previewGroup || previewGroup === "Movies" || previewGroup === "TV" || previewGroup === "Anime";
   // Anime previews from AniList, so it needs no OMDb key.
   const sectionIsAnime = section === "anime";
+  // Games and Books results are installers, archives, and documents — there is
+  // no video file for `v` to land on, so it's a no-op there. See the web UI's
+  // `playApplies` (searchModel.ts) for the same gate on the other front end.
+  const playSection = previewGroup !== "Games" && previewGroup !== "Books";
   // Local pane: the adult group has no OMDb metadata, so it is built from the
   // release name — no key, no lookup.
   const adultSection = previewGroup === "Porn";
@@ -769,7 +773,7 @@ export function Results({ reccConfig, fetchImpl }: ResultsProps) {
       } else if (input === "r") {
         const r = resultAt(clamped);
         if (r) openDebrid(r);
-      } else if (input === "v") {
+      } else if (input === "v" && playSection) {
         const row = rows[clamped];
         if (row?.kind === "season" || row?.kind === "show") {
           const plan = seasonPlayPlan(
@@ -812,7 +816,7 @@ export function Results({ reccConfig, fetchImpl }: ResultsProps) {
       } else if (input === "d" && detail) openDownload(detail);
       else if (input === "D" && detail) openDownloadTo(detail);
       else if (input === "r" && detail) openDebrid(detail);
-      else if (input === "v" && detail) openStream(detail);
+      else if (input === "v" && detail && playSection) openStream(detail);
       else if (input === "y" && detail) copyResultMagnet(detail);
       else if (input === "i" && detail) openImdbFor(detail.name);
       else if (input === "b" && detail && canFavourite(detail)) toggleFavourite(favInput(detail));
diff --git a/src/web/static/app.ts b/src/web/static/app.ts
index 667b3a56..5d2444d1 100644
--- a/src/web/static/app.ts
+++ b/src/web/static/app.ts
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ import {
   parseGrouping,
   parseLayout,
   parseSort,
+  playApplies,
   previewApplies,
   adultPreviewApplies,
   reportsHealthLookup,
@@ -272,6 +273,7 @@ const settingsSourcesBox = el<HTMLDivElement>("settings-sources");
 const settingsAccountsBox = el<HTMLDivElement>("settings-accounts");
 const settingsAccountsHint = el<HTMLParagraphElement>("settings-accounts-hint");
 
+const logoHome = el<HTMLButtonElement>("logo-home");
 const viewsNav = el<HTMLElement>("views");
 const viewSearchTab = el<HTMLButtonElement>("view-search");
 const viewReccTab = el<HTMLButtonElement>("view-recc");
@@ -1644,6 +1646,7 @@ function showView(next: ViewName): void {
   syncUrl();
 }
 
+logoHome.addEventListener("click", () => showView("search"));
 viewSearchTab.addEventListener("click", () => showView("search"));
 viewReccTab.addEventListener("click", () => showView("recc"));
 viewSavedTab.addEventListener("click", () => showView("saved"));
@@ -2408,20 +2411,27 @@ function resultActions(
   const actions = document.createElement("div");
   actions.className = "row-actions";
 
-  const playButton = document.createElement("button");
-  playButton.type = "button";
-  playButton.className = "play";
-  playButton.textContent = "play";
-  tagControl(playButton, rowKey, "play");
-  // `result.infoHash`, NOT `rowKey`: rowKey is the group key (this row may nest
-  // several releases of one title), while play() is handed rowForPlay(result),
-  // whose id is the hash. See tagPlayKey for why the two identities are separate.
-  tagPlayKey(playButton, result.infoHash, "play");
-  playButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
-    if (onPlay) onPlay();
-    else void play(rowForPlay(result));
-  });
-  actions.append(playButton);
+  // Games and Books results have no video file for `play` to land on — see
+  // `playApplies`. Add / debrid-add remain as the primary actions on those
+  // tabs, and one of them takes over play's accent styling below so the row
+  // still has one obvious next step.
+  const showPlay = playApplies(searchView.group);
+  if (showPlay) {
+    const playButton = document.createElement("button");
+    playButton.type = "button";
+    playButton.className = "play";
+    playButton.textContent = "play";
+    tagControl(playButton, rowKey, "play");
+    // `result.infoHash`, NOT `rowKey`: rowKey is the group key (this row may nest
+    // several releases of one title), while play() is handed rowForPlay(result),
+    // whose id is the hash. See tagPlayKey for why the two identities are separate.
+    tagPlayKey(playButton, result.infoHash, "play");
+    playButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
+      if (onPlay) onPlay();
+      else void play(rowForPlay(result));
+    });
+    actions.append(playButton);
+  }
 
   // A labelled debrid add button replaces the plain (P2P) "add" whenever a
   // provider is configured — the server forces debrid in that case (it never
@@ -2432,6 +2442,9 @@ function resultActions(
   if (!debridAddAvailable) {
     const addButton = document.createElement("button");
     addButton.type = "button";
+    // Only the primary action where play is not shown at all — with play
+    // shown, plain P2P add is a secondary option next to it.
+    if (!showPlay) addButton.className = "primary";
     addButton.textContent = "add";
     tagControl(addButton, rowKey, "add");
     addButton.addEventListener("click", () => void addResult(result, "p2p"));
@@ -2463,6 +2476,9 @@ function resultActions(
   if (debridAddAvailable && sources?.debridProvider) {
     const debridButton = document.createElement("button");
     debridButton.type = "button";
+    // Only the primary action where play is not shown at all — with play
+    // shown, debrid-add is a secondary option next to it.
+    if (!showPlay) debridButton.className = "primary";
     debridButton.textContent = debridAddLabel(sources.debridProvider);
     tagControl(debridButton, rowKey, "debrid");
     debridButton.addEventListener("click", () => void addResult(result, "debrid"));
diff --git a/src/web/static/index.html b/src/web/static/index.html
index cbfb6262..3963531f 100644
--- a/src/web/static/index.html
+++ b/src/web/static/index.html
@@ -12,16 +12,22 @@
   </head>
   <body>
     <header id="page-header">
-      <h1 aria-label="torlnk">
-        <svg class="wordmark-icon" viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="30" height="30" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
-          <path class="magnet-body" d="M7.6 3 V12.5 A4.4 4.4 0 0 0 16.4 12.5 V3" />
-          <rect class="magnet-tip magnet-tip-a" x="5.6" y="0.5" width="4" height="4.5" rx="0.8" />
-          <rect class="magnet-tip magnet-tip-b" x="14.4" y="0.5" width="4" height="4.5" rx="0.8" />
-        </svg>
-        <!-- aria-label on the heading, not just on the icon: below 34rem the
-             text hides (CSS only — the DOM node stays, screen readers still
-             get "torlnk") to give the nav room to sit on the same row. -->
-        <span class="wordmark-text">torlnk</span>
+      <h1>
+        <!-- A real button, not a clickable <h1>: it needs to be reachable by
+             keyboard and to fire on Enter/Space, and a plain heading gives
+             neither for free. aria-label carries "torlnk" here rather than on
+             the heading, for the same reason it used to sit on the heading:
+             below 34rem the text hides (CSS only — the DOM node stays, screen
+             readers still get "torlnk") to give the nav room to sit on the
+             same row. -->
+        <button type="button" id="logo-home" class="wordmark-button" aria-label="torlnk">
+          <svg class="wordmark-icon" viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="30" height="30" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
+            <path class="magnet-body" d="M7.6 3 V12.5 A4.4 4.4 0 0 0 16.4 12.5 V3" />
+            <rect class="magnet-tip magnet-tip-a" x="5.6" y="0.5" width="4" height="4.5" rx="0.8" />
+            <rect class="magnet-tip magnet-tip-b" x="14.4" y="0.5" width="4" height="4.5" rx="0.8" />
+          </svg>
+          <span class="wordmark-text">torlnk</span>
+        </button>
       </h1>
       <!-- Search / For You / Saved / Queue. Buttons rather than links: it is one
            page with four panes, and there is no route to navigate to.
diff --git a/src/web/static/searchModel.test.ts b/src/web/static/searchModel.test.ts
index 7e61f48b..41bbb649 100644
--- a/src/web/static/searchModel.test.ts
+++ b/src/web/static/searchModel.test.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   modeForQuery,
   parseGrouping,
   parseLayout,
+  playApplies,
   previewApplies,
   adultPreviewApplies,
   progressLabel,
@@ -641,6 +642,22 @@ describe("previewApplies", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("playApplies", () => {
+  it("is false for Games and Books, which have no video file to play", () => {
+    expect(playApplies("Games")).toBe(false);
+    expect(playApplies("Books")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("is true everywhere else, including All", () => {
+    expect(playApplies(ALL_TAB)).toBe(true);
+    expect(playApplies("Movies")).toBe(true);
+    expect(playApplies("TV")).toBe(true);
+    expect(playApplies("Anime")).toBe(true);
+    expect(playApplies("Music")).toBe(true);
+    expect(playApplies("Porn")).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("adultPreviewApplies", () => {
   it("is true only for the adult group", () => {
     expect(adultPreviewApplies("Porn")).toBe(true);
diff --git a/src/web/static/searchModel.ts b/src/web/static/searchModel.ts
index 3d8e5b1b..2ae39a44 100644
--- a/src/web/static/searchModel.ts
+++ b/src/web/static/searchModel.ts
@@ -645,6 +645,18 @@ export function previewApplies(group: string): boolean {
   return group === ALL_TAB || group === "Movies" || group === "TV" || group === "Anime";
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether "play" is a sensible primary action for this tab.
+ *
+ * Games and Books results are installers, archives, and documents — the file
+ * picker's video-extension heuristic (`streamCandidates`) has nothing to latch
+ * onto, so play falls back to "every file" and streams whatever's first,
+ * which is never right. Every other tab, including "All", is mostly video.
+ */
+export function playApplies(group: string): boolean {
+  return group !== "Games" && group !== "Books";
+}
+
 /**
  * Whether a group gets the LOCAL detail pane instead of the OMDb one.
  *
diff --git a/src/web/static/styles.css b/src/web/static/styles.css
index 55c88d1f..1235bad1 100644
--- a/src/web/static/styles.css
+++ b/src/web/static/styles.css
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ header {
    - The wordmark loses its TEXT, not the magnet icon — the icon alone is
      the thing that's on the favicon and the tab title anyway, and losing
      "torlnk" recovers ~85px a phone header cannot spare. aria-label on the
-     <h1> (index.html) keeps a screen reader's announcement unchanged.
+     button (index.html) keeps a screen reader's announcement unchanged.
    - The four nav buttons go icon-only, each with its label text hidden the
      same way and an aria-label carrying it instead. Four ~30px icon buttons
      fit easily where four text pills could not. */
@@ -238,14 +238,29 @@ header {
 }
 
 h1 {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  margin: 0;
+}
+
+/* Resets the <button> back to looking exactly like the plain text/icon row it
+   replaced — the wordmark is a nav control now (click goes home), not just a
+   heading, but it must not look like one. */
+.wordmark-button {
   display: flex;
   align-items: center;
   gap: 0.4rem;
+  border: none;
+  background: none;
+  padding: 0;
+  margin: 0;
+  cursor: pointer;
+  color: inherit;
+  font: inherit;
   font-family: var(--font-display);
   font-weight: 700;
   font-size: 1.35rem;
   letter-spacing: 0.02em;
-  margin: 0;
   text-transform: uppercase;
 }
 
@@ -617,15 +632,21 @@ button:hover {
 /* Play is the one control in a row that isn't queue housekeeping, so it carries
    the accent at rest while pause/remove/delete stay dim until hovered. That is
    also the safety argument: the destructive buttons sit millimetres away on a
-   phone and should not compete for the thumb. */
-.row-actions button.play {
+   phone and should not compete for the thumb.
+   `.primary` carries the same treatment for whichever button stands in for
+   play where play doesn't apply — the debrid-add (or plain add) button on the
+   Games/Books tabs, so those rows still point at one obvious next step
+   instead of five buttons that all read as equally optional. */
+.row-actions button.play,
+.row-actions button.primary {
   color: var(--sunken);
   background: var(--accent);
   border-color: var(--accent);
   font-weight: 600;
 }
 
-.row-actions button.play:hover {
+.row-actions button.play:hover,
+.row-actions button.primary:hover {
   color: var(--sunken);
   background: var(--fg);
   border-color: var(--fg);