Something interesting though...

Legend of Eisenwald
Release date: Jul 2, 2015
Price: $29.99
Userscore: 77%
Owners: 46,507 ± 5,007

This is lower ranked on GoG's bestseller list than Serpents meaning it has sold less...

Then why is SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition here? ;-p

There is reasonable explanation for that.

Serpent in the Staglands was day 1 release on both GOG and Steam. It did not participate in Early Access. It has been here half year longer than LoE (SitS: May 28, 2015, LoE November 06, 2015) so it has been sold longer and has participated in more sales. It was also advertised as day one release on GOG. I'm not sure how KS keys were decided but GOGers who backed SitS got GOG key on launch.

Legends of Eisenwald on other hand was released on GOG five months (November 06, 2015) after official Steam release (July 2, 2015) AND it was in Steam's early access program 21 months before that (since October, 2013). GOG release was only confirmed after steam launch ("they would look into it after steam launch"). LoE has been on lot of sales during it's 26 months before GOG release. Finally, all backers (2,729+any pre-steam purchasers) got steam keys where as GOG provided limited number of keys to be distributed to backers on request.

There is also price (SitS €17.89, LoE €26.79) as well as genre differences (SitS is cRPG, LoE is more of a strategy game with rpg elements added to the mix (akin to HoMM). I'm sure composition of GOG userbase played it's part in sale figures.

You should try Akalabeth, and considering you don't like permadeath then there is not much left to discuss, but you have a valid point to some extent. :)

I am one of the UrW fans too, and I have to say I just don't get it. Why not on GoG? Why a very good game like UrW "doesn't fit", while there are plenty of crappy games on GoG.
Don't get me wrong, GoG is my preferable gaming platform - and I hate Steam and its DRM. I've bought quite a few good games on GoG, together with some bad ones. UrW would fall in the first category..That's exactly why I am saying it should be here.

It shouldn't be too hard to "get". So you enjoyed the game when it was basically free. Good for you. But now that the developers are asking $10.99 for it, GoG decided few people would be interested in buying it. And guess what? So far they are right...

Steamspy stats with the game out 6 days...
Owners: 2,560 ± 1,178

Translated into the usual GoG 15% of Steam sales, it would have likely sold 384 ± 177 copies. Not enough to be worth it...

Maybe after a couple of years, when the game gets more publicity and begins to sell better, it will arrive on GOG

No contest to Elminage Gothic, but the other two games games (as well as Pineapple, Sanctuary, Californium, Westport, Fear Equation, Aquatic Adventure) have an elevator pitch which sounds exciting. The Quest, Antharion, Dex and Loren don't. The first two are generic fantasy whatever, Dex looks like a Deus Ex / Shadowrun third-rate poseur, and Loren is weeaboo fetish porn. (For the record, I'm perfectly fine with weeaboo fetish porn, it's just there's tons of it and Loren doesn't stand out.)

Now, I don't doubt GOG declines interesting games (Lethis, Cat Lady, Pony Island), but the only obvious recent dud they are selling is a game they had initially declined and people have persuaded them to sell.

TL;DR "why is [interesting unpopular game A] on GOG when [unpopular game B] isn't?" is a bad argument, because we know the answer: GOG decided A is interesting and B is not. Asking "but why" repeatedly like an autistic child like some people are doing, or spamming "too niche!!1!" in release threads is dumb. GOG is not a welfare program.

Yeah. The design does not impress. We have enough roguelikes here that new ones would need to be pretty special. I'm sure this game is fine, but it doesn't stand out from all the other roguelikes already on GOG or available for free.


GOG isn't trying to sell every 'good game' in the world. GOG is trying to sell games that provide enough income to have a profit + cover support costs.

UrW is probably a fine game, but it doesn't stand out from anything already here or in one of the well-known free roguelikes. GOG is a niche store and having a large catalog of good-but-not-unique-or-awesome games would be a huge drain on technical support without bringing in enough money to cover those long-term costs.

Steam takes every game because they provide no technical support whatsoever. GOG has a different business model, and that limits the number of games they can accept.
And that's why I stopped paying attention to Klei games.

While your point is valid, this made me laugh.

Thank you :).

Once they smell the coin odor coming from Steam's UrW store page.

Don't worry. Doesn't look like that is happening. Seems to have sold only roughly 2,500 copies the first couple days and trickled down to nothing.

Keep voting on the wishlist, people

But not if you won't really buy the game.

If GOG learns the wishlist isn't a reliable indicator of people who will actually buy the game, they'll stop using it.
Always happy to spread some laughter. :)

Seriously, this game is a labor of love.

I thought it was already on GOG. I think that's because the icon is round. I really have to try playing it one day, I can't even remember where I got it or when.

I'd certainly buy the game if it was being sold here. The game has certainly acquired a cult status now.
Unfortunately, it's so old (it was first released in 1992 if I'm not mistaken) that most of the players who once enjoyed it back in the day have long since abandoned videogaming.