diff --git a/docs-site/content/docs/automation.md b/docs-site/content/docs/automation.md
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@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ and nothing you configure here runs anywhere near the streaming path.
 | `client.connected` / `client.disconnected` | a client session is admitted / goes away | device name, cert fingerprint, plane (`native`/`gamestream`); disconnect adds `reason`: `quit` (user stop), `timeout` (vanished), `error` |
 | `session.started` / `session.ended` | an A/V session registers / ends | session id, client label, mode (`3840x2160@120`), HDR |
 | `stream.started` / `stream.stopped` | video actually starts / stops | mode, HDR, client name, launched app id/title (when one was requested), plane |
+| `game.running` | a launched game's own process is seen running (not merely its launcher) | app id, title, store, client, plane |
+| `game.exited` | a launched game is gone | the same, plus `reason`: `exited` (the player quit it) or `terminated` (the host closed it, per your [session⇄game settings](/docs/virtual-displays#when-a-game-ends-and-when-a-session-does)) |
 | `pairing.pending` | an unpaired device knocks (once per device, not per retry) | device name, fingerprint, plane |
 | `pairing.completed` / `pairing.denied` | a pairing is approved+stored / denied | device name, fingerprint, plane |
 | `display.created` / `display.released` | a virtual display is minted / kept displays are released | backend + mode / count |
@@ -124,6 +126,29 @@ best-effort, even if the session crashed:
 
 A `do` that fails logs, keeps going, and its own `undo` is skipped (it never took effect).
 
+## Reacting to a game, not a stream
+
+`stream.stopped` tells you the *stream* ended; `game.exited` tells you the *game* did. They are
+often the same moment, but not always — a desktop stream has no game at all, and a stream can
+outlive its game if you turned off "end the session when the game exits".
+
+If you have been polling the host to work out when a game finished, you don't need to any more:
+
+```json
+{ "hooks": [
+    { "on": "game.running", "run": "~/.config/punktfunk/scripts/game-up.sh" },
+    { "on": "game.exited",  "run": "~/.config/punktfunk/scripts/game-down.sh" }
+] }
+```
+
+Both carry the title in `PF_EVENT_GAME_TITLE` / `PF_EVENT_GAME_APP`, and `game.exited` adds
+`PF_EVENT_REASON` so a script can tell "the player quit" (`exited`) from "the host closed it"
+(`terminated`) — worth checking before you, say, power the TV off.
+
+Ending the session yourself when a game exits needs no script at all: it is the default behavior,
+under Host → *Virtual displays* →
+[When a game or a session ends](/docs/virtual-displays#when-a-game-ends-and-when-a-session-does).
+
 ## The event stream (`GET /api/v1/events`)
 
 For code, subscribe to the SSE stream on the management API (loopback + bearer token — the
diff --git a/docs-site/content/docs/virtual-displays.md b/docs-site/content/docs/virtual-displays.md
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@@ -136,14 +136,55 @@ Per-backend support:
   refresh**, with just the game inside. The game boots straight in — no Steam Big Picture to navigate,
   no game-mode desktop. Steam titles launch with the client hidden (`steam -silent`); non-Steam titles
   start almost instantly (gamescope up in ~1 s, then the game's own boot). Combined with **keep alive**,
-  the game keeps running when you disconnect and you re-attach straight back into it; when you quit the
-  game, the session ends cleanly and your client returns to its library.
+  the game keeps running when you disconnect and you re-attach straight back into it.
 
 Dedicated needs `gamescope` installed on the host; if it isn't, a launch falls back to **Auto**
 routing. This axis is independent of the preset — pick it under Host → *Virtual displays*. On a box
 that's already in Steam game mode, a dedicated Steam launch frees game mode's Steam first and restores
 it when the session ends. (GameStream / Moonlight launches follow the same routing.)
 
+## When a game ends, and when a session does
+
+A streaming session and the game the host launched for it can share a fate. Two switches, under
+Host → *Virtual displays* → **When a game or a session ends**. They apply to every store and both
+protocols — and only ever to a game **this host launched for the session**: a game you started
+yourself is never touched.
+
+### When the game exits
+
+**End the session** (default). Quit the game and your client goes back to its own library instead of
+staring at your desktop. This is what a dedicated game session has always done; it now works on
+every path — your live KDE/GNOME/Sway desktop, an attached gamescope, and Moonlight.
+
+**Keep streaming** if you stream the desktop and treat the game as incidental.
+
+### When the session ends
+
+Whether stopping — or losing — a session also closes the game.
+
+- **Leave it running** (default). Nothing is ever closed. Disconnect, and the game plays on for when
+  you come back.
+- **Close it on Stop** — closing the client, or pressing *Stop* in the console, closes the game.
+  A network drop does not: you get your game back when you reconnect.
+- **Always close it** — a drop closes it too, but only after a **reconnect window** (5 minutes by
+  default). Reconnect inside the window and nothing happens; the console shows the countdown while
+  it runs, with an **End now** button if you'd rather not wait.
+
+Closing a game costs whatever it hadn't saved, which is why nothing closes by default. The host asks
+first — a polite close, the same thing clicking the window's X does, so the game runs its own
+shutdown — and only forces the issue after ten seconds of being ignored.
+
+> **Keep alive and this setting are different clocks.** Keep-alive decides how long the *display*
+> outlives a disconnect (10 s by default); the reconnect window decides how long the *game* does
+> (5 minutes). A display set to **Forever** stays up regardless of what happens to the game — a
+> pinned display is a deliberate "this box is a game host" choice, and closing a game doesn't undo it.
+
+### Automation
+
+The host publishes `game.running` and `game.exited` events (the latter says whether the player quit
+it or the host closed it), so a hook or plugin can react without polling. See
+[Automation](/docs/automation).
+
 ## Persistent scaling
 
 Set your display **scaling** once and have it stick across reconnects. This works by giving each