One game that is indie, but also perfectly suited to this site is Alida.
It's a Myst/Riven clone made by one guy and is about 6 or 7 years old. I can't find anywhere to buy it now. =(

I believe it's already on the wishlist with a couple of votes.

You guys forgot that GOG adds one game per week (sometimes two games per week).

If they start adding indie games, there will be no room for old classics.

I wouldn't mind having Machinarium here, for example, but on the other hand, I don't want it to be Good Old and Indie Games.

GOG staff have explicitly stated that they're not interested in including indie games on GOG. Maybe if they did another digital distribution service. But they won't be on GOG any time soon.

If it's all about 'Good Old Games' here, I don't see why they shouldn't include indie games. I mean as long as they are Good and a bit Old.

They won't for the same reason why a fruit seller doesn't sell car parts.
When you specialize in something, you try to focus your efforts there,and not spread across a dozen things.

I dunno - there are some games on here that are very close to the indie definition already. Just not new. The Dark Fall games seriously has a lot of the indie aesthetic. Plus there's a few games on here that are sold directly by the people that made the game, rather than through a publisher - the Tex Murphy series for example (second link). So the line is already somewhat blurred anyway.

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/dark_fall_the_journal
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/gog-com-tex-murphy-adventure-series-available-for-drm-free-download

Yeah, I would definitely call the Dark Fall games indie.

so there already is indie games? thats great :), one game i'd love here is Reccetear it may not be old, but its not a good game, its downright excellent

Recettear isn't that old. It was released in Japan a few years ago (2006, I think), but the English translation is fairly recent. If you want recent indie games, you can either go with Steam (usually cheaper) or the authors (DRM free).

Good Old Games sells what the name says - good old games. I think that the GoG team would agree that good old indie games are definitely a possibility, but new, modern indie titles are not.

if you go buy original release of reccetear and not the englisg it does count as old by this websites definition as we have games from 2007 here

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. It doesn't matter what I go by. If you're really convinced that Recettear is a good old game you should add it to the GoG Wishlist.

But consider this:
* The English version of Recettear is only a couple of months old.
* It sells for $20
* It's easily available on other digital download sites like Steam

Good Old Games sells games that:
* Are older than a couple of months
* Can be sold for <$10 with the publisher's permission
* Often aren't so easy to find

Does Recettear really fit the GoG model?
There's the answer then. Games like Soldak's and Recettear are easily available through Steam and other services, and they all sell for twice ($20) what GoG sells games for anyway. As far as I can tell, they don't fit the GoG model.

you make it sound like i have some kind of alteria motive or some grand evil design. since the old is deatable in gog nowadays, i just thought i'd put idea up for discusiion, i was expecting such a fierce resistence when indie games have been apart of the pc industry almost as long as games on pc in general.

Apologies, I didn't intend to come off that way. I just don't understand the push for indie games when GoG have apparently said they aren't interested, and when they're already available in many other locations. Like I said above too, a number of indie games like the ones you suggested sell for a lot more than what GoG sells their games for. Sure, the price can be negotiated, but I don't know about a 50% drop. Steam only manages that sort of thing during brief sales.

it's ok dont worry, i didnt take offence.

yeah the price point is the biggest problem i have to agree. as for getting them elsewhere, i'm not gonna argue that, all i will say is there is no where out there thats like gog, i'd always prefer to get a game here than anywhere else now. GOG actually killed my love of steam.


as mentioned above we already have some indie games here, so it really would only be adding to a already existing catalogue. As i said above indie has been about for many years so its not a totally new thing from the last couple of years so alot of the games qualify under the 'old' part.

I properly didn't help my case mentioned relatively newer indie games but i mention them as a those ones are great and b since there so fresh people will know where i'm coming from.

People are talking as if there is no such thing as an older indie game.
So is "good", unfortunately >_>