Excuse me , but that's all ? No more new releases for today , just these mobile ports ?

One of these days, I'm going to log in and see Afterlife from RjB Software and see how GOG deals with that.

Can i just say that they use the term "Tetris Effect" wrong in the description of Puzzlink? It has nothing to do with "increases our brain activity". Tetris Effect is when you play something so much that it becomes muscle memory, and you are getting so involved into the game that your brain can not turn it off, but you see the pices falling even when you are not playing or in your dreams.

I'm happy whenever they add small and fairly priced puzzle games to the store!
Mobile port or not, there are lots of occasions within a day that are fit for small distractions.
My life is busy and I simply don't want to play huge complex AAA titles all the time.

I have "Any Processor". And I even have more than 512 MB RAM.
But is it proven that the games don't work with Windows XP?
Are the minimum requirements just a blanket assumption?
What year are the games from? Are they Unity games?

the system requiements are the PC's that the developers have, and can test the game on. this does not mean that the game will not run on other system, only that it is not tested one those systems. it also means that if it does not work on your system, then the developers cannot help you. so if you buy a game for which your system is outside the minimum requierments you are on your own and it is a risk you are taking.

I like this kind of thing but considering how many free puzzle games there are it needs to be a nice package to get me to pay for it and I'm not seeing that here. Would be nice if several puzzle game developers got together and made a nice combined game with a number of individual puzzles, a few styles of music you could choose from, and a nice way to pick one out of the collection that you might want to play right at the moment. Failing that, a low price bundle with a number of individual games would be needed for me to be interested.

Ehrm... those _are_ free puzzle games. They _do_ come in a package, and they _should_ run on Windows XP (maybe not the browser they are packaged with, but the games themselves should).

Reason being, that those puzzles are HTML+JavaScript. It is literally a website. It runs on any system that can run a compatible browser.

Sure, there is an android version, but why would you even install that, when all you really need is a URL.

I found them on the internet on at least one website that hosts dozens, if not hundreds, such browser games for you to play at your leisure. Just put the game's title in your favorite search engine, et viola!

I guess, you can pay/donate something here, if you want to support that sort of thing? I suppose, the paid version has no ads, though.

Concerning Win XP: Not sure what the installation contains when you download the game. Most likely a portable browser app using kiosk mode.

Unfortunately, most portable browsers that support kiosk mode have long since stopped officially supporting Windows XP. You probably may have to unbundle and manually repackage/run the game with a compatible legacy browser. However, whether you will find a browser that will run the JavaScript version used by the game is a bit of a gamble. Perhaps try the free hosted version first?

This is insane! literally just copied a title, paste it in browser and got a full game. This are free web browser games, they have to be nuts thinking they can charge for this! This really doesn't belong on gog.

The developer of these games uses Windows 7 with 512 MB RAM. *?
Then he has won: My system uses 2048 MB RAM.

I didn't realize that these games were browser games. As the name
suggests, the Internet browser is not intended for playing games.
But it would not work for me either.

I don't see "Tetris Effect" on the Puzzlink page. That has
probably already been changed.
The term "casual game" is also common in Germany. You
should not translate "casual" as "leicht". Using the tags "Leicht"
and "Schwierig" at the same time raises questions.

It might have been more honest to state on the shop page that those are the ad-free, paid offline versions of free browser games. I have no problem paying for that, but I don't like to feel like I'm being misled.

Particularly when the games are advertised as "only on GOG", even though they are clearly not.

The description on the store page hasn't been changed, and it was never stated that the game causes the Tetris Effect.

"Puzzlink also causes an effect similar to the Tetris Effect, so it increases our brain activity the more you play."

Interesting. I was thinking more of things like KDE games and Simon Tatham's puzzle games (forum seems to not like the URL of that one but you can search for it, some decent games) that are fully free (no ads) and downloadable.

Crosscode is made with web tech and is a regular game with full controller support and key remapping, no real sign from playing the game that it was done this way. They had a blog post about how this caused trouble with the console port since the console makers don't allow games to have browsers so the company that ported it had to do some non-trivial stuff to make it acceptable. There was also one I played that was a basic choose your own adventure style game implemented in a single web page download that worked fully offline. I don't think it even needed javascript, but while basic I'd say it worked better than some of the visual novels made in Unity with unreasonable delays added (not Unity's fault). So there isn't anything wrong with a game being implemented as a web page and browser, at least as long as the browser used allows the needed controls to work (which is usually an issue with general web browsers).

I agree they should mention the ad supported version. I would guess that would even increase sales if the game is good. While possibly it is unusually good, I don't really get that sense from the trailer and having average puzzle games as individual listings makes clear the need for more catalog filtering options (like an ignore button).

No one said that they stated it caused the Tetris Effect, just that what they did state doesn't make sense, which it doesn't (which might always be the case any time you see "increases brain activitiy").