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Four matches made in heaven.

Goodies, bonuses, and that feeling when you buy a game and it comes with so many extras – at GOG.com, we've always done our best to make sure your every purchase is full of value.
Now for a limited time, you can get even more value out of your pre-order, ease the wait, and get in the right mindset when grabbing free games with select pre-orders, only on GOG.com:

<span class="bold">Absolver + Furi</span>
Precision, strategy, and timing are key in the incredible duels you'll face throughout Furi and Absolver – blending stylish and nuanced combat with great visuals, story, and epic adventure. Pre-order Absolver now at 10% off to receive Furi and in-game items: The Labyrinth Prospect Mask and Uring Priest Gear Set.

<span class="bold">Hello Neighbor + Jazzpunk</span>
A splash of humor, a dash of tension – Hello Neighbor and Jazzpunk both offer a unique sort of adventure full of secrets, exploration, infiltration, and plenty that's simply strange… Additionally, by pre-ordering Hello Neighbor, you’ll get access to 3 Alpha builds allowing you to experience the diversity of gameplay in the newest game by tinyBuild.

<span class="bold">Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth + The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav</span>
The video-game adaptation of world-bestseller "The Pillars of the Earth" is available for pre-orders now exclusively on GOG.com. Together with The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, there are countless hours of fantastic writing and adventure ahead.

<span class="bold">Sudden Strike 4 + Sudden Strike 1, Sudden Strike 2, Sudden Strike 3</span>
Sudden Strike is coming back! Relive history with the original trilogy, reworked by GOG-engineers for smoother gameplay on modern machines, as we await the fourth installment of the highly-realistic RTS – we'll need the practice anyway. Pre-order now at 15% off.

Each title was handpicked by both the developers and the GOG.com team to make sure they go great together – so whether you're into strategy, adventure, or action, we are confident you'll enjoy what your pre-order has to offer!
All free games will become available the moment you complete your pre-order purchase, so you can jump in and play right away!

All offers are valid throughout each title's pre-order period, while the Absolver and Hello Neighbor offers will be active for 2 weeks following release (till September 12th).
Pre-orders are for those who love, are obsessed with a game. I got my son the Hello Neighbor pre-order. He plays all the versions Alpha and Betas, he watches endless Youtube videos and can talk about all the versions for hours.

I waited a long time to get this for him, made sure it was not a passing desire. Got him to do a lot of chores, reasoned with him but after a few months I got it for him.
Post edited July 30, 2017 by Greywolf234
I pre-ordered Hellblade right here on GOG. Then I watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL9X1Z0OAbs
Now I'm happy about myself.

And I don't care if it's gonna be a 60 or 70 on metacritic. Sometimes you just gotta buy a title at full price to express yourself and to support the developers. Also gaming is really not that expensive, when you look at the hours of fun you're gonna have versus $$ spent.
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Engerek01: The "pre-order only content" annoys me to the bones. Why am I missing content because I did not pre-order? I am totally ok with discounts, free DLCs (which you can buy if you don't preorder) and giving away free games. So, If a game says pre-order only content in the description, I automatically eliminate that game from my shopping list.
So much this. I kickstarter a lot of games so pre-orders as a general concept are fine with me, but content *exclusive* to pre-order? Nope, no thanks, I just by or play something else. There are after all plenty of options.

This also applies to day 1 DLC or chopping apart games to create more content for sale (see Mass Effect 3 for a glaring example of poor developer behavior in this regard).

Another part of this problem is the focus on things like metacritic socre, which pushes publishers towards pre-orders rather than total orders as a masure of success, but I digress.

Deliver a whole game, patch as needed, do not create "pre-order only" content, and I'm happy to pre-order a game.
Otherwise I'm happy to start considering not doing business with that publisher/devloper any longer.
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Zoidberg: "Pre order done right"

I'm at a loss.

What about stealing done right?

Rape done right?

Mass killing done right?
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RadonGOG: So, would you dare to tell us that 42$ for Witcher III back in the day was a bad thing?

You see the problem in your argumentation?
+Neverwinter nights
That preorder is one of the best deals I've personally purchased. And it was a preorder. So.. yeah, it definitely can be done right.
To me the pre-order advertising is simply that: advertising. It's simply a way of bringing attention to the game. Doesn't matter whether anybody actually pre-orders. It gets on people's minds, free rent in your head.

Pre-order exclusives seem like just novelties to me. If those made the game worthwhile, then they'd already be in the game instead of only for pre-orders. Why sell an incomplete game? As such, pre-order exclusives are simply another excuse for advertising the game, and it doesn't matter whether they are obtained.

I think DLC is for games that are already good enough. The game has been enjoyed and the DLC just adds an opportunity to revisit what was already enjoyed in different way. If the game wasn't enjoyed, then there's no point paying for more content for it. Better off getting a different game that is enjoyed from the get go.
Hey, at least they dropped the "pre-orders done right" bit, which was way off the mark. "Offers" works much better.
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JCDenton32: Pre-orders are such foolishness.

Buying a product before it's finished just seems like very poor business sense.

Make your game, let's see if it is any good, then we can biy it :)
Maybe it was a punctuation thing? Add a comma for "Crazy Pre-order, offers:" :)

Pre-orders aren't for me either, but rewarding the customers' faith in the developers/product with tried and true products at the time of pre-order seems a better way to do it - as long as the customer can keep their reward and still get refunded if the finished product is not sufficient.

I do not have the economic flexibility to gamble, though. To each their own.
Awesome!
JUst received Furi, while i was Buying Absolver.
Didn't know.
Nice surprise
Thanks GOG You rules!
What do people have against pre orders????. Discounts are good right?. Pre order freebies are good right?. YES you do take a chance the game might turn out to be a turd but hey you know that before you pre order right?.
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Zoidberg: "Pre order done right"

I'm at a loss.

What about stealing done right?

Rape done right?

Mass killing done right?
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RadonGOG: So, would you dare to tell us that 42$ for Witcher III back in the day was a bad thing?
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Actually: yes... Please let me explain why:
CDPR left the original buyers out in the cold for a long time. Offering only discounts to the GOTY version but not to the expansion pack. That came *much* later. This way you are punished as early adopter, while saving the company on the beta testing they couldn't bother to do. Working, without getting paid.
I won't make the same mistake with Cyberpunk 2077.
That is not to say that I don't like CDPR's products, on the contrary: imho both The Witcher 1 EE and TW3 are masterpieces..
CDPR introduced many things to GOG that I hate about Steam and similar platforms, such as pre-orders, regional pricing and even the latest stain: bloody microtransactions.

I have contributed to many Kickstarters, sometimes at high tiers in order to support the developers and to lobby against DRM, for Linux support and mod-friendliness. In a sense those KS projects are akin to pre-orders, but not quite, since you have a relatively intimate view and sometimes even influence on how the game develops.

I detest pre-order culture, because it promotes shoddy games released in Beta (sometimes) Alpha state to satisfy those without patience, both publishers and customers.
Not with my money anymore.
Post edited August 02, 2017 by jorlin
sweet deals
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RadonGOG: So, would you dare to tell us that 42$ for Witcher III back in the day was a bad thing?
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jorlin: Actually: yes... Please let me explain why:
CDPR left the original buyers out in the cold for a long time. Offering only discounts to the GOTY version but not to the expansion pack. That came *much* later. This way you are punished as early adopter, while saving the company on the beta testing they couldn't bother to do. Working, without getting paid.
I won't make the same mistake with Cyberpunk 2077.
That is not to say that I don't like CDPR's products, on the contrary: imho both The Witcher 1 EE and TW3 are masterpieces..
CDPR introduced many things to GOG that I hate about Steam and similar platforms, such as pre-orders, regional pricing and even the latest stain: bloody microtransactions.

I have contributed to many Kickstarters, sometimes at high tiers in order to support the developers and to lobby against DRM, for Linux support and mod-friendliness. In a sense those KS projects are akin to pre-orders, but not quite, since you have a relatively intimate view and sometimes even influence on how the game develops.

I detest pre-order culture, because it promotes shoddy games released in Beta (sometimes) Alpha state to satisfy those without patience, both publishers and customers.
Not with my money anymore.
Oh yes, this sounds very silly indeed. Didn´t matter for me, cause I went for full physical with the whole Witcher III; that´s probably the reason why I forgot about this stuff.
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jorlin: Actually: yes... Please let me explain why:
CDPR left the original buyers out in the cold for a long time. Offering only discounts to the GOTY version but not to the expansion pack. That came *much* later. This way you are punished as early adopter, while saving the company on the beta testing they couldn't bother to do. Working, without getting paid.
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I detest pre-order culture, because it promotes shoddy games released in Beta (sometimes) Alpha state to satisfy those without patience, both publishers and customers.
Not with my money anymore.
CDPR's discount policy after release has nothing to do with preorders.
I'm glad to see these pre-order offers and am curious about how they work from a business standpoint. I know the publishers of the free bonus games must be getting paid for this, but beyond that, I wonder about the particulars of it.