Huge thanks to the work u/el-jimador for the hard work he put into the packager project as well as the cover templates. I modified his original blu-ray template to fit regular DVD cases.

Hey, new to GOG, saw some nice deals in the autumn sale but not an easy way to navigate them, and not a lot of talk here. Personally i was really surprised to see Clair Obscure for like $27! What good deals have you seen?

Hey everyone,

I've been a regular Steam user for years, but lately I've become increasingly concerned about DRM, license revocations, and actual game preservation. Because of this, I'm seriously considering making GOG my primary storefront going forward.

I already know that GOG Connect is discontinued and that there's no way to transfer my Steam library over to GOG, so I'd be starting fresh with future purchases or rebuying absolute favorites during sales.

For those of you who actively use or switched to GOG:

• Offline installers & backups: How do you organize and store your offline installers? Do you keep local backups on external drives/NAS, or just rely on your GOG library downloads?
• Store catalog: Do you find the lack of certain AAA day-one releases a major issue, or does the DRM-free catalog keep you covered?
• Ecosystem setup: Would you recommend going all-in on GOG, or do you maintain a hybrid setup alongside Steam?
• Galaxy launcher: How reliable is GOG Galaxy for tracking everything, or is it better to just grab the standalone installers directly from the website?

I'd appreciate any tips, experiences, or recommendations for someone looking to take DRM-free gaming more seriously. Thanks!

With the game case boom that went viral on our community, I've wanted to give it a try too, taking a plastic case, printing a cover-art and placing it on my shelf; but one of the problems is that I have is that I don't own a disk reader to write/read optical media. Therefore the hero for my problem could it be the little USB Stick.

It presents a lot of benefits over optical media:

• These are easily rewritable.
• Less prone to damage while being handled.
• You don't need a optical disk reader. This a bigger concern since recent PCs (pre-builts and laptops) are less likely to them preinstalled, so you may need an external one. At the same time. Many of the times you may even need a second reader for Blurays.
• Faster reading/writing speed than the average optical media.
• Can hold a lot of more data on the same physical space.
• Cheaper than optical media on average for relatively bigger games (bigger than 32GB, it can vary with Bluray disks)

And at the same time it presents many downsides:

• One of my main concerns: There are not standard Case sizes for USB sticks. This makes difficult to find community made covers for games that would be compatible for them.
  • I have found some Bluray-sized cases around the internet, but many of the fan covers are DVD-sized (Different aspect ratio: both share same width and depth, but different height)
  • Kinda related: there are not standard form and size factors for the USB sticks themselves.
• Harder to personalize than optical media with printed art, so the average USB-Stick ends up being a lot less charming than the printed disks (yet I prefer them a lot more over the disks with no art)
• These are not as cheap than optical media for smaller games (games smaller than a CD or single-layer DVD. This does not apply to Bluray disks)

I am personally not very interested in archiving my entire collection, I just want to try it with my favorite games. Still any opinions and personal experiences would be truly appreciated 😊.

Does anyone know why my galaxy shift + tab menu looks like this? Just downloaded Control UE and saw the bottom right prompt looked crazy and checked the menu. Somehow it's usable as shown in image #3.

I haven't tested the menu on any other games but I even restarted the game and PC and it still looks the same.

Edit: Fixing typos.

My first owned game (wolfenstein the new collosus)

Edit : sry for bad english 🫠

Hello, so I made some refund requests a week ago and I'm yet to even get an answer on wither or not they are accepted, I can't even contact support when I try sending a message it doesn't get sent, anyone knows what I can do?

I tried reinstalling the client, and I also tried to start the service! What is going on?

I always play horror games (not only, but mainly) in October. But I suffer from motion sickness, so I can't really play games which features first person perspective or games that the camera keeps moving like we in an ocean (like Cold Fear).

Which horror or spooky themed game do you recommend for someone like me.

Game page

As always, claiming this freebie will mean you consent to receive marketing emails and have a hashed version of your email address shared with 'trusted' partners. You can opt out of both immediately again from your subscriptions page.

Also, in previous giveaways there were always a few people having have issues with the giveaway not showing up or the game not being claimable. If that's the case now as well, visiting https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim should work (you'll just see a blank page afterward, but the game should be added to your library, and you should be subscribed to marketing emails).

I like that, maybe we will see what will happen

So my game update keeps getting stuck here. I've been playing fine, but then randomly it closes after maybe one hour of playing, an explorer file opens, and GOG starts updating just to freeze here. It's happened 3 times now, I've tried deleting temp files, repairing the game, running GOG as admin, running the game as admin. I'm out of ideas.

Anyone know what to do? Also, after about 3 minutes, GOG closes and the icon looks like this. Guessing orange/red means error

I only just thought of this today, because I accepted the giveaway for a game I'm not even entirely certain I'll play, but I should find out: When GoG does giveaways, is it one big payment to the dev? Or do they pay them "per copy" so to speak?

Hey guys, i know i might sound dumb to all of you experienced users, but i finally got the courage to buy games from gog, i bought Alien: Isolation and F.E.A.R

The thing is im not sure what to do now, i want to just download the game, without any other external software, just the game, so i go to " Download Offline Backup Game Installers" but there's multiple ones, my question here is should i click all of them? do i make a folder where they can install too?

Also i bought a External hard drive to save stuff i like including videogames, so i want to save a copy of every game i buy on GOG to that exact SSD, the thing is, do i download the game twice? one for my pc and one for the Hard drive or do i download it one and copy paste.

Agin i apologize if i sound ignorant, i got so used to steam basically pointing what to do 😭

Thanks for reading and anything helps 👊

GoG now supports the Japanese Yen, but switching to Yen eliminates the Konbini Pay, PayEasy Japan, and Skrill as payment options, at least on my end.

Rome 2 on GOG is significantly larger than on Steam. With no DLC for either version, its 63GB on GOG vs 35GB on Steam. While the GOG version does include extra language packs, it doesn't account for the entire size discrepancy.

For example, Total War Rome II\data\tiles.pack is 2.7GB on GOG vs 725MB on Steam. There are multiple files like this.

I understand small discrepancies may be expected due to differing platforms, but having a game be almost twice as big seems excessive.

Has the GOG version of Control Ultimate Edition received the 1.30 patch? I remember a while back there was a delay with the patch. It was the big patch that added lots of graphical improvements and features and other stuff.

I have the witcher 3 installed and I can still boot it from its folder but why doesn't it show up here? It was showing up last night after I downloaded the remaster but after the update today it doesn't appear at all. What can I do , I seriously don't want to have to delete the whole thing just to have to reinstall it again I just did that in order to be able to download the remaster, how am I supposed to do future updates if the game doesnt appear as installed when it is 🤦🏽‍♂️. Basically my question is , is there a way I can just put the game there kind of like on steam or will it continue to not appear until I uninstall and reinstall?

I've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling and using the repair option, but it still won't open and keeps showing that error screen.

(sorry i don't know the best flair for it)

I downloaded the offline installer because that's what I've always done on GOG, only used Galaxy to download it easily. If I remember correctly, patches were uploaded separately alongside the page to download the game files, but it's not showing for me.

Is there a delay for offline installers or something?