Seems weird asking this, but as Steam trained me to just accept the latest patch of a game as the only version of the game I can play. Sometimes it's useful to go back to older versions, to eliminate bugs or if I enjoyed old gameplay. Is it possible to do that with any gog game?

I see that question could never be answered, nobody owns all games.

Better question:
Is there a way to tell which version you will get of a game (pre-patche) by looking at the store page? Did you ever have to dig into the forums/developer's website to find that out?

To answer your original question:
From the store page you can download your games as files and do with them what you like, hence you can keep any of the patches released as they will either be patch files or new sets of installers. The system is quite buggy though.
Galaxy apparently has a rollback feature though I don't know the specifics.

The game should be the latest version that is around, quite a few are old games, but the newer ones can have delays getting new patches. I don't know of a way to link dev release version to gog version as gog have their own ids.

Depends on the game. Some will be pre-patched to the latest, some will have small patchers and an outdated version of the game as a full copy.

There is also the Rollback feature in GOG Galaxy which allows you to revert any of your installed games to older versions (but not all older versions though).

Just thought of another good reason: modded games. Some great mods for games are only supported for a specific version and aren't updated as devs constantly push patches that often break older mods. Sure there's no DRM, but that means I would have to buy, download, and archive the earliest published build of the game - making what we love most of digital publishing useless. I'd rather be able to find what version I am buying for games I don't own and be sure when I buy the game, the dev or gog can't eliminate the version that I bought from existance.

In the good old days, we had cd's that had the 1.0 version, and you can choose to use that or any of the number of patches the devs have released. What we deal with today using digital pubs is not even close to that. lol, I'm done venting, it's not aimed at you, you're helping.


I see the option you can use is the check/uncheck to auto-patch your game to the latest version. Only way to determine what that those two version are, that I know of is using Galaxy for games that you own, it tells you under 'INSTALLED' or 'READY TO INSTALL' in your Library.

I don't see where you can rollback any games that I own. Is there a sample free game I can test?

Not sure what games it works on (I don't use Galaxy), but here's what a google search came up with:

Once you have the game installed on your machine, and added to Galaxy, click on it in the side-bar on the left. Select MORE -> Settings, and switch the INSTALL UPDATES option to MANUALLY.
If the game has any older versions available to revert to, you can select them under ROLLBACK TO VERSION section.

Yes you can turn update off globally by clicking the Galaxy logo in the top left -> settings -> features. You can also disable updates on a game by game basis by clicking the game page for the installed game and clicking MORE -> settings and going to the override features section. Click on the game, go to MORE -> settings. Under override features you will see a version menu with radio buttons that allow you to select an older version. It will not show though if they game is still on it's orginal version since release or games that got updates before the feature was introduced. If you import any games make sure you re-start Galaxy first, I've had issues with it showing after a fresh import.

I attached a picture of the Witcher 3 for example... in my experience you can typically only select up to 5 older patches starting with the most recent. But this may not be true for all games.

Thank you. I unchecked the auto-update for my games, some have that option, some don't, not all versions are listed. I think this is up to the dev, not gog, to allow users to download older versions. Maybe you're right about the last 5 patches, which would sounds like something gog limits, imo.
Found you can test it on Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Demo. Witcher 3 is exactly the game I was thinking about that happened most recently, how dev patches break older mods that add more to the game than devs patches.

In Steam, you're just forced to use the latest version your screenshot would convince me to ALSO buy Witcher 3 on gog if I knew I'd always have access to those older versions.

Anyway, I don't think a year is enough to get Ucross's mod working again though (needs 1.08.4 I think). Thanks a million for the screenshot.

Auto update option is available for all games. I have mine disabled globally for all games. If you are talking about rollback then yea not all games will have that due to the reasons I listed above. I'm not sure but I don't really think it's up to the devs. When a dev pushes a patch to Galaxy it automatically creates a snapshot of sorts for rollback. Usually if that snapshot is unavailable it's because the update that was pushed has something that broke the game or something so it was pulled from the rollback feature. Yea you can't really go back that far after the fact. You however do have more options with GOG compared to Steam as far as updates and being able to rollback.

Also if you buy a game early enough after release you could always keep every standalone installer after every update so that you have all versions. You can download those on the site or via Galaxy under MORE -> Backup & Goodies but only the latest one is available so you would have to get in on it earlier to get all versions.

EDIT: Just keep in mind the standalone installers take a few days to update manually by GOG, they are not instant like regular updates on Galaxy.