Bought it, since it has a really Jazzpunk-ey vibe, and I'm all for that kind of stuff.

I'm not sure about the Philip K. Dick scene, though; looks more like something out of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice or basically anything from Hunter S. Thompson. Maybe someone mistook S. Thompson for K. Dick, I guess?

Still, really, really cool to have GOG releasing a batch of games that cater to those of us more interested in adventure, puzzling and overall weirdness and surreal stuff. Kudos to you, guys! I have to say I've been insta-buying *lots* of games on GOG, for a while (pretty much every single one in the past three or so weeks).

aha i get it, thanks for the reply.

So basically the Netherlands could be called an extreme 'cheapskate' ( in holland they are very tight on spending money) , cause i dont think we have anything like that, we pay through the nose but don't get anything for free, and it's only getting worse.(the 70-80s were the best periode imho, the government was stuffing its own wallets with our cash, but the living was good back then, now its crap (espec. after the euro was introduced) and it gets only more crappy overtime )

What's really interesting is that as a European I can either chose the free episodes from ARTE's site, or pay the regional price here.

Simply mind-boggling.

Impulse purchased this, and hugely regret it. Horrible, horrible game. Review should be posted soon. Awful, awful, AWFUL "game".

true, a lot of games have arrived, i only got these 2 new games

Jan 26, 2016 €9.19
Order of the Thorne: The King's Challenge

very nice game but i could not make the game run, so i asked the dev and he provided me with a working version
thanks again to the dev of Order of the Thorne: The King's Challenge

I do hope the main game on the gog gets patched so i can download a working version from there , otherwise i have to keep bothering the dev for a link to the game when a update arrives , and i thought there was another update
i downloaded the gog version but the game kept hanging on same error.
It has problems with a .dll file and some galaxy error or so.

This is the 1st game that did not work for me, i never had any problems with non working games.
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Jan 22, 2016
€9.99
Punch Club
nice game, this worked for me with no problem., i finished it recently... good game

If you wouldn't mind please pm me when it's up.
I'm quite curious.
Were you running the game with or without Galaxy?
Have you contacted support to inform them of your issue?

Exactly, i could download : folge 1 , the rest says it arrives at : march 1, 8 and 15

Bad thing number one : to much strain on GPU (check gts250_gpu_usage.png)

My quad core 2.67 was at 66 degrees tot 70 degrees on each core so thats within reason (it is however still 10 degrees to high compared to all my other games)

The gpu was at 70 degrees celsius all the time

and the game is... well its not my style , but i got curious and wanted to see if i could download the game.

1) I cant select Englis text , only German or French,
2) The interface is very unresponding, its very slow, and wastes too much GPU (check gts250_gpu_usage.png)

What's wrong with it?

I hope for something like The Stanley Parable :D
When I get home...

You will be severely, severely disappointed.

edit: Now the post just popped up while logged in. Bizarre.

thanks for the reply

first i ran without Galaxy and it did not work
then i ran with Galaxy and got same errors
Finally i got the latest Galaxy version and still got the same errors.


First of all i want to make clear that i like GOG very much and i think its the best games seller on the internet.
Never had any serious problem and have a clean record , so i was kinda sad that because of this issue my clean record would be smudged.

All my games work a charm, and i am very satisfied.
This was my 1st time i had problems of a game not running, i was sad cause i had a clear record, I never had any problems, I never returned a bought game (mutator promos and other promos are not counted cause these suprise games were all unknown but 90% were 3d games or flashy games (photosensitivity) so i got the refunds in store credits.))

Thats why i did not contact tech support, i did not want to bother them with that, i want to keep a clean sheet.
So i explained the error to the developer and he told me about the probable cause of the error, he gave me a link to a working drm free version and it was solved the game works a charm.

Only problem is when game updates arrive i have to bother the friendly dev again and i dont want to bother him with minor details.
So i tried to download the gog verion that was patched but problems existed , the same errors nagging about a stupid dll file i dont have.
I havent read any people complaining about so i guess its just me, normally everyone has problems and i dont have them, so thats why i wanted to keep a clean sheet.
Well that about sums it up. i have serious problem with 1 game and that bothers me cause i dont want to be nagging about if by contacting tech all the time.
Its a single issue cause all games i have work a charm, so it just a single incident, 1 game that refuses to work.
I dont want to mess up my windows by tinkering with install and uninstalls cause i rather have 1 game not working then have fixed one game and get 100's games not to work.
So my problem is a bit 'weird'.

And if you're wondering why I quoted you twice and posted the same thing twice, it's because GOG's forum is consistently broken for me.

I can't see my own post for some reason, IF I'm logged in. If i logout, I can see the double post, but as soon as I log in, it disappears. This has been happening to me for a long time.

edit: Several minutes later it spontaneously appeared. This time at least. Crazy.

Pretty much the only solution would be either a reinstall or removing all VC studio installs and just installing the one for the game.
Others will eventually return when you play other games.

Did you try old explorer v11 or up? or chrome browser? i have FF set as default browser, but have the old IE 11x and the chrome browser aswell, just as a 'backup'.
I am member of many forums, games and design forums (all english) and sometimes some software seems to run better in a certain browser, usually FF does the trick for me but sometimes some sites seem to favor IE 11 or so .

Always disable as many browser addons that are not needed, cause sometimes these might mess up in rare cases.

my topic is here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/order_of_the_thorne_the_kings_challenge/game_gives_error_reinstalling_the_game_x_number_of_times_wont_fix_it/page1

just check and see how many c++ is installed (i already removed some but the problem stays)


regaring the cause:
it might be:


GoG version has code that works with GoG galaxy, and needs Visual C++ runtimes that can mess with some people's systems

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And that might be 100% true, cause there are a shitloads of posts when you take some time to google on it.
i mean 10000s of games seem to use that lib and apparently everyone uses a slightly differnt version so poor windows gets clubbed with loads of c++ installations, so no wonder things mess up badly.
99% of all times it refuses to install and takes 'hours' before it finishes, after that you have 50-50 it wont work.
But it seems it can be done without that lib.
Worst thing of all is that you cannot simply download that single.dll file, and the use regsevr to reg it (this worked a charm in the old win xp days)
So i need a clean .dll file (mentioned in the error) but i cant get it, and i am not gonna download weird dll from the net cause god knows what crap be inside it.