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Looking back at 2017 on GOG.com

We made it! You made it! 2017 is almost over – and whatever your take on the world at large, only one thing can truly be said for certain: it's been a great year for all of us here at GOG.com – thank you for being a part of it!

Let's take a brief look back at the year 2017...





Over 2000 DRM-free games
Our catalog passed two thousand titles in 2017 – but if you know us, you know it's not just about the numbers. These are over two thousand unique experiences that we truly believe are worth playing!

Did somebody say good old games? Well, we brought back quite a few of them this year – the really tough ones and the ones we really missed – restored by our talented teams and friends across the net. There is the Jazz Jackrabbit series – CliffyB's gaming debut; SWAT 4 – happily no longer among PC Gamer's "15 great games you can't buy digitally"; The Suffering series – with scary monsters by Stan Winston Studios; the delicious Pizza Tycoon series; many long-lost classics Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, Rise of the Dragon, Heart of China; [url=https://www.gog.com/game/titanic_adventure_out_of_time]Titanic: Adventure out of Time… and more!




But the good and old is only half the story. 2017 was an amazing year for gaming, with award winning and groundbreaking productions releasing DRM-free on GOG.com. If the indie revolution is behind us, then this is the renaissance!

2017 gave us Divinity: Original Sin 2 – PC Gamer's Game of the Year and this year's most popular game on GOG.com! Followed by Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice – Best Audio Design, Impact, and Best Performance at The Game Awards; the niche but loveable Piranha Bytes RPG; [url=https://www.gog.com/game/cuphead]Cuphead – winning Best Art Direction and Best Independent Game at The Game Awards; and so many others!

All in all, in 2017 alone we released nearly one quarter of our entire catalog – and it's an honor to work this closely with so many talented game developers and great publishers.





GOG Galaxy out of beta
In 2017 the GOG Galaxy client left behind its BETA tag – with a few great new features to boot! We added Universal Cloud Saves, technology which allows us to introduce Cloud Save support to classics and new games on GOG.com (now nearly 300 and counting). Plus an in-game overlay, a built-in FPS counter and screenshot tool, as well as an array of expanded settings allowing you to customize the client to your needs. Anyway, that's how we earned our sense of pride and accomplishment.





We are legion
We saved the best for last – and that's you lot. As we grow in size, the GOG word spreads farther and farther out! Tens of thousands of you have joined us this year across social media and our very own twitch.tv/GOGcom channel. That's over <span class="bold">240,000 following our Twitter shenanigans</span>, more than <span class="bold">340,000 of you with us on Facebook</span>.

<span class="bold">As for twitch.tv/GOGcom</span>, we can't thank our dedicated Stream Team enough for sharing our love for games seven days a week. In 2017 we reached 50k followers – oh, it just went up to 51k – and there have been over 214600 individuals watching us so far. If you combine all our 2017 streams, we streamed for 169 days and 15 hours (that's about 45% of the year!) and if you combine all the time people spent watching our channel in 2017, you get 38 years and 272 days!





Thank you so much for being with us in 2017 – we hope your 2018 is amazing, and we can't wait to show you what's in store for this year!
Post edited December 29, 2017 by Konrad
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eiii: 2017 probably has been a good year for GOG. But once again a full paragraph about Galaxy and sadly not a single word abot the Linux version... Not that I'm waiting for it anymore. :P
It's almost certainly coming whether you like it or not, seeing as they completely accidentally deleted the "be optional till the end of days" wish and poured all its votes into almost the same "release the gog galaxy client for linux" wish, making it surprisingly popular.
Post edited December 30, 2017 by Rixasha
Hopefully more OLD games will appear with more titles added from people's wishlists to the gog catalogue.

On a separate note, and as mentioned earlier by a fellow goger; Might & Magic X would be a nice addition to the gog library, as it is a return to form for the series.
2017 - TES IV: Oblivion (finally) gets released on GOG. Pitchforks are returned to disgruntled farmers and all is well again.
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Hillsy_: Hopefully more OLD games will appear with more titles added from people's wishlists to the gog catalogue.

On a separate note, and as mentioned earlier by a fellow goger; Might & Magic X would be a nice addition to the gog library, as it is a return to form for the series.
Yes...I appreciate new adventure and indie game development but it is time for more OLD games for sure. :)
More Good Old Games from the 2000's for 2018, please !
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Andrey82: Happy New Year GOG!
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GOG.com: Let's take a brief look back at the year 2017...
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Andrey82: It was a very good year and I hope that next one will be even better!
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GOG.com: Thank you so much for being with us in 2017 – we hope your 2018 is amazing, and we can't wait to show you what's in store for this year!
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Andrey82: And we (ok, I'm :) ) can't wait to see all that! :)
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PainOfSalvation: Wait.. are you saying you have something BIG in store this year? Something BIG is coming? :o
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Andrey82: And here comes over 9999 pages of speculations about what that will be: Dark Omen/Mass Effect/Skyrim/Any other game name here? XD
But you know, some of those speculations were right (Oblivion, Fallout 3, NV Doom 3, Quake 4) and some of those games were awaited here for some time.
I guess more will be coming :)
Thank you GOGS and Happy new GOG to you all.
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mqstout: But more importantly: 2017 had too many games *with* DRM on GOG, such as GWENT and Goblins, Inc.
'The difference between gremlins and goblins - what do they do?' ;P
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Tarhiel: But you know, some of those speculations were right (Oblivion, Fallout 3, NV Doom 3, Quake 4) and some of those games were awaited here for some time.
I guess more will be coming :)
I'm sure they will prepare something BIG for their 10 year anniversary. ;D
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mqstout: But more importantly: 2017 had too many games *with* DRM on GOG, such as GWENT and Goblins, Inc.
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Lemon_Curry: 'The difference between gremlins and goblins - what do they do?' ;P
Hah. You got me. And I thought I checked and used the right one.
This year was pretty nice, release-wise.
Thank you very much!!

Here's how you can top this next year: (legend: game - release year - developer) ;)

Omnicron Conspiracy (1989) - First Star Software

Buck Rogers: Countdown to doomsday (1990) - SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Circuit's edge (1990) - Westwood Studios

The Magic Candle 1-3 + Bloodstone: an Epic Dwarven Tale (1989-1993) - Mindcraft Software

Pepper's Adventures in Time (1993) - Sierra On-Line

Shannara (1995) - Legend Entertainment

Snoopy and Peanuts (1990) - The Edge

The Gene Machine (1996) - Divide by zero

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel (1992) - Mythos Software

Dark Seed (1992) - Cyberdreams

Mars Saga (a.k.a. Mines of Titan) (1989) - Westwood Studios

Temple of Apshai trilogy (1985) - Epyx

B.A.T. II (1992) - Computer's dream

*shakes a pitchfork playfully before returning it to the stables*
Post edited December 30, 2017 by superstande
Fantastic year GOG. You are my number one games service. Next thing to get on your service, different systems of current games and new games. So for example, I would like to see the Amiga versions of Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies.

Keep it up.
im hoping to play & test some of the games i bought this year .lol. just haven't had time, 2000 in catalogue now, wow im at 1957, without the loose change DLC addons. (edit - i had a few more lol)

Cheers for next year from one of your best customers.
Post edited December 30, 2017 by Swapware1
Thanks a lot for those great releases in this year !

Happy new year !
Post edited December 30, 2017 by yl593159
Man this has been a great year! Here's hoping there's more to come in 2018!! Happy new year everyone! :D