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GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform operated by GOG sp. z o.o. (a limited liability company in Poland) which was a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt until December 2025. Since then it has sold to CD Projekt co-founder Michał Kiciński so it's legally a fully independent website at this point.

As of this time it has a rather niche but dedicated following due to its consumer friendly policies and maintenance of older video games that otherwise do not run as easily on modern operating systems.
 
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JFYI: Heroic Games Launcher for Linux (EDIT: and Windows too) is the single best thing a GOG user can have installed on their PC. It aggregates your GOG, Epic, and Amazon Luna (formerly Prime Gaming) accounts into a single launcher, and what this ultimately means is that you can basically claim your free Amazon Luna games from the same interface. The vast majority of them are GOG games. I managed to score Doom 2016 (sadly no multiplayer), Fallout: New Vegas, and a whole bunch of Sid Meyer stuff since... late 2024ish? A lot of the free games to claim off Prime Gaming are kinda sorta shitty, but there are some real gems buried inside. I'm 99.99% sure that the Epic Games version of Hogwarts Legacy was a Prime Gaming giveaway thing because I *NEVER* once paid money for it.
 
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you can get offline installers on gog-games.to

I have actually gotten their installers for games I legally bought via such nautical means because it is way safer and more trustworthy way to store the games than relying on ancient disks or any online shops. Makes the archival of my shit very nice.
 
They keep emailing me and asking me to give them more money for their preservation program.
It annoys me because its like, "I'm paying for the game already."
I get that they want to present that they keep the stuff working over time, but it feels like PCGamingWiki takes care of most of that for me as is already.
 
What's the deal with gog Galaxy having a massive security breach or loophole or something?

My other gripes about gog is that that smaller developers will just straight up not push updates to the gog version of their game, so I am punished for buying their game on the wrong platform. And since more and more games exclusively host their mods on steam workshop one is disincentivised to buy the game on gog depending on the mod community.


That said I greatly appreciate that they provide a legal way to buy crusty obscure games for an almost reasonable price and include lots of goodies like the manual and soundtrack and hd wallpapers and stuff.
 
My other gripes about gog is that that smaller developers will just straight up not push updates to the gog version of their game, so I am punished for buying their game on the wrong platform.
The guys that made Mutant Mudds pulled this crap and it annoys the hell out of me. The GOG version only has up to the Grandma levels. Steam version has the additional Ghost Dimension stages, so I had to find a crack of that one to get the full experience.

Not like it matters... Mutant Mudds got de-listed from GOG some time ago, but on the flip-side, they have people voting on whether or not to bring it back
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If they do, but it doesn't have the Ghost Levels, then it's fucking pointless.
 
One thing that GOG does that I really like is that they release updates to really old games. Master of Magic, which is just Civ 2 but with wizards, comes with a big overhaul that adds some modern stuff like a diplomacy screen and rebalances the whole game. It's incredibly fun. There's also the Unity version of Daggerfall, which I haven't played but it's cool that they did it. I know most of those things are just mods made by other people but the fact that I can give them 3 dollars and they'll package it up without me having to fight with it is well worth it.

I don't know how those people that do the mods get paid for it, if they do at all, but I'd really like to see GOG lean harder into that. For example, there's a guy, dfortaeGameReviews, who streams to like 10 people and is overhauling all of the old SSI Gold Box games. He's adding every small OD&D option and rule he can find. Getting his shit installed is a pain in the ass, he has no manual or explanation about how anything works as far as I can tell so I'd have to find PDFs of Unearthed Arcana to begin to figure out what he's done, but all the stuff he has managed to include in Pool of Radiance is incredible. If GOG could clean all of of that up I would gladly pay them and dfortae a few dollars to do so.
 
One thing that GOG does that I really like is that they release updates to really old games. Master of Magic, which is just Civ 2 but with wizards, comes with a big overhaul that adds some modern stuff like a diplomacy screen and rebalances the whole game. It's incredibly fun. There's also the Unity version of Daggerfall, which I haven't played but it's cool that they did it. I know most of those things are just mods made by other people but the fact that I can give them 3 dollars and they'll package it up without me having to fight with it is well worth it.

I don't know how those people that do the mods get paid for it, if they do at all, but I'd really like to see GOG lean harder into that. For example, there's a guy, dfortaeGameReviews, who streams to like 10 people and is overhauling all of the old SSI Gold Box games. He's adding every small OD&D option and rule he can find. Getting his shit installed is a pain in the ass, he has no manual or explanation about how anything works as far as I can tell so I'd have to find PDFs of Unearthed Arcana to begin to figure out what he's done, but all the stuff he has managed to include in Pool of Radiance is incredible. If GOG could clean all of of that up I would gladly pay them and dfortae a few dollars to do so.
Ehh they're hit or miss with updating old games and getting them to run on modern systems. They sell several games that either don't run properly on modern systems or don't run playably at all. Examples of this are the games eternam and gangsters: organized crime

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What's on your GOG Dreamlist, chyat?
- working versions of castle of the winds 1 and 2
- the old ancients games that epic published back in the early 90s
- ancient evil, released by silverlightning software in 1998. It'll never happen cause the company went under around 2001 after they released the sequel. Its similar to diablo 1 but far more difficult in some ways, has alot of puzzles, an interesting story but its graphics are a bit meh. Its a fun game though and you can get it on some abandonware sites. Good luck getting it to run on a modern pc though and its a little iffy and prone to corrupted file installations on virtual machines for some reason. Particularly liked the fact that you actually had to eat, had to use torches and the rune based magic system where you had to find the runestones for your spells. It was also fairly unique for the era in that your class choice didn't limit you, as you could improve in things like magic or thieving abilities simply by using them
Uh though it was never that laggy back in 98 so I don't know whats going on there. Probably something to do with the virutal machine its running on

- a working on modern systems version of the original version of mordor 2 but that will never happen cause the rights are privately owned and the game was eventually released under a different name
 
You can get a way better full-version of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on GOG than even Steam has. Oddly also has some pretty cool extra mod content.
I remember that the steam version is some HD remake that just smoothed out the (already perfect) art HoMM3 had and doesn't include either of the expansions.
 
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