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Posted September 18, 2025
For quite some time now, the review system on our platform hasn’t been ideal. And we know just how important reviews are, both for discovering new games and for sharing your own experiences with them.

That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’ve rebuilt the review system to make it clearer, easier to use, and more helpful for everyone.

So, what’s new?

– Edit or delete your reviews anytime (with timestamps to keep changes transparent).

– Better summaries with rating breakdowns at a glance.

– Your own review is always pinned on top, so you can find it right away.

– A dedicated “Reviews” tab on your profile (with the option to make it visible or hidden).

– Up to 8,000 characters per review, plus better formatting, smoother scrolling, and dark mode support.

– Improved reporting flow to help keep reviews fair and constructive.


We hope you’ll enjoy these changes and that they’ll inspire you to write more reviews, or even post your very first one!

Check out your new “Reviews” tab HERE.
Posted September 19, 2025
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CarChris: I completely deleted (not just edited) a review of mine, and wrote a new one (after having replayed that game recently), but found out that the upvotes and downvotes of the previous review remained to the new review! Wouldn't make more sense that when one posts a new review (after completely deleting his/her previous one), that the votes are cleared too? Because we're talking about a new review, while the votes are for the previous one.
Assuming that's not just a bug in sporadic cases, that's a pretty glaring flaw in how they implemented deletion.
Posted September 19, 2025
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CarChris: I completely deleted (not just edited) a review of mine, and wrote a new one (after having replayed that game recently), but found out that the upvotes and downvotes of the previous review remained to the new review! Wouldn't make more sense that when one posts a new review (after completely deleting his/her previous one), that the votes are cleared too? Because we're talking about a new review, while the votes are for the previous one.
To be fair it has to be every time you change the rating I feel like otherwise it could be easly abused if the votes stay
Posted September 19, 2025
Hello ! you deleted old reviews !! Some contained useful tips on how to make work correctly or better some old games ! we players are the loosers here ! Bad move dear GOG !
Posted September 20, 2025
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Raf81: Hello ! you deleted old reviews !! Some contained useful tips on how to make work correctly or better some old games ! we players are the loosers here ! Bad move dear GOG !
No, they did not delete old reviews. I checked a few games and all the reviews are there. Why do people just make up nonsense like this?
Posted September 20, 2025
Yeah, I don't know what those two are on about. I just checked Albion, and there are reviews that date back to 2015, and Tyrian's date back to 2010.

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Wirvington: I don't understand why anyone would bother writing a review for a game they haven't played but instead have watched someone else play. Isn't the whole point of a review to leave a helpful and informed opinion to others who could benefit from it? Leaving aside the outliers, I get the feeling that this sort of practice has a greater chance of stemming from clickbait and manufactured outrage, than an honest willingness to provide any sort of valuable information to others (as unfounded as it may be).

Anyway, in my humble opinion having the 'verified owners' option selected by default is a good solution to allowing non-owners to write reviews too.
Perhaps they owned it originally but haven't bought it yet on GOG, and wanted to refresh themselves of some of the details?
Post edited September 20, 2025 by dnovraD
Posted September 20, 2025
Regarding comments by developers:

It would be nice to know if bugs / crashes mentioned in a review had been fixed by a newer version. On steam developers will often make that comment. So I would be in favor of allowing any user (in case developer does not comment) to comment on reviews and if there is a concern about abuse perhaps these reply comments could be limited to indicating whether a bug or crash was fixed or if there is a workaround.
Posted September 20, 2025
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binteon: Regarding comments by developers:

It would be nice to know if bugs / crashes mentioned in a review had been fixed by a newer version. On steam developers will often make that comment. So I would be in favor of allowing any user (in case developer does not comment) to comment on reviews and if there is a concern about abuse perhaps these reply comments could be limited to indicating whether a bug or crash was fixed or if there is a workaround.
That would be wishful thinking at best. People use faulty but functional hardware all the time in computers. This among the billions of individual hardware configurations and 3 very different mainstream operating system choices would make definitive differential diagnosis impossible.

Reviews about external technical issues shouldn't be there in the first place, if you were to ask me.

For example, Creatures 1 is non-functional to me as none of the modules load. That's not a failing of the program, but instead is a system or function call failing to be translated or connected. (I'm using WINE.)
Post edited September 20, 2025 by dnovraD
Posted September 20, 2025
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binteon: Regarding comments by developers:

It would be nice to know if bugs / crashes mentioned in a review had been fixed by a newer version. On steam developers will often make that comment. So I would be in favor of allowing any user (in case developer does not comment) to comment on reviews and if there is a concern about abuse perhaps these reply comments could be limited to indicating whether a bug or crash was fixed or if there is a workaround.
How would you police that? It'd mean every reply being checked to see whether it's about what it should be about.
Posted September 20, 2025
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Wirvington: I don't understand why anyone would bother writing a review for a game they haven't played but instead have watched someone else play.

Isn't the whole point of a review to leave a helpful and informed opinion to others who could benefit from it?
That's because some people think, their opinion on something is so valuable, that it needs to be shared with everyone - no matter, how that opinion came to be.

I say, the same goes for people who played the original game 10, 15 or 25 years ago (probably even on a console, instead of a PC), and now think, their golden memories of that precious occasion would need to be shared in connection to the GOG version, aka: a version, which they haven't played (and maybe not even bought) at that point.

If it isn't explicitly mentioned, that someone played the GOG version on offer, before writing their review, I'd take any review with a few grains of salt.
And even if that's the case - who can tell, whether that person isn't lying?

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Wirvington: Anyway, in my humble opinion having the 'verified owners' option selected by default is a good solution to allowing non-owners to write reviews too.
Yeah, it is nice, and I only ever read the "verified owner" reviews.

But again: no guarantee, that that person ever played the GOG version,...aka: the version of the game, that I want to get informed about.

In general, I prefer reviews written by professional reviewers.
Not saying, those don't come with their own bag of problems...but, when push comes to shove, I'll always prefer the opinion of pros over that of laymen.

Edit: typo
Post edited September 20, 2025 by BreOl72
Posted September 20, 2025
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BreOl72: That's because some people think, their opinion on something is so valuable, that it needs to be shared with everyone - no matter, how that opinion came to be.
Oh I get it! Like when person A posts with a problem that they have, that person B has never had, person B posts that they have probably just been stupid and there is actually no problem, because some other people who have posted with something similar to person A's problem in the past and been proven wrong.

Person B has never had that problem but likes pointing out that person A is 90% likely to be stupid. Of course sometimes person B is stupid because the problem exists despite the noise but that doesn't bother person B because they will never get called out on it.
Post edited September 20, 2025 by lupineshadow
Posted September 20, 2025
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kparal: When writing a new review, it seems that it's not possible to specify in which language it is written. Does GOG use some heuristics to determine it automatically?
I write reviews in english, they used to automatically appear under the english tab. A few weeks ago the review I wrote in english appeared under the german tab and stayed there. I contacted support. They changed it to english and told me, the language selected for viewing gog determines under which language it appears. Of course, I don't know, if that has changed (again) with the review overhaul.
Posted September 20, 2025
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FlockeSchnee: the language selected for viewing gog determines under which language it appears
Yeah, I thought that was the case. Though in that case it'd mean that there won't be anything under "other"... Except perhaps old Brazilian Portuguese reviews, posted before they gave up on supporting that.
Posted September 20, 2025
I've seen Dutch reviews under "Others". Clicking through a few random games with only "Others" selected, I see Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Turkish, Ukrainian and countless others.

I find it very likely that there's some language detection going on, though it's also possible that Galaxy reads the OS locale and passes that along with any reviews made through it?
Post edited September 20, 2025 by gogtrial34987
Posted September 20, 2025
Thank you GOG! I appreciate these changes, they provide good encouragement to write reviews. The system may not be perfect, like any other review system out there, but it definitely helps users make more informed decisions.
Posted September 21, 2025
Pleased to see this.

Very worthwhile.
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