The two examples I gave were released on GOG and Steam the same day.

Yes and? Sure there have been a few which release at same time, croteam release serious Sam 4 here tomorrow at same time. That however is a tiny part of the market. A vast part of the market never even comes here at all. Then there are those which eventually turn up (beths) then there is the tiny fraction left which turn up at the same time as steam.
With all the good will in the world GOG is not n the same level as steam, or even epic.

This is 100% on you. This one has been known for A LONG TIME, quite publicly. GOG has done considerable gains in letting people know what's coming, when they can. Control was a different story, and probably on the publisher's side squelching the info until much later. And didn't Control release on GOG and other platforms [excluding its bullshit exclusive window] at around the same time, within a few hours?

ALSO this is entirely on you for a terrible lack of patience and allowing yourself to throw money away on DRMed storefronts in the first place.

What do you know, they also sell the tools to make them yourself at home. For example: https://www.gog.com/game/moleksyntez (the evidence lies in the first screenshot).

I agree with the OP. GoG really could do a much better job surfacing news on releases and upcoming releases. There are actually many releases that never get news on their home page either in the slides at the top or the news articles. You see it in the "new " and "upcoming" tab but the default is "best selling" so it really hides things from people and "new". But "upcoming" doesn't really show surprise releases (at least I don't think it does -- I honestly don't look at it often).

IMHO, they should have a dedicated "new & upcoming releases" section". They can dump the "featured" section. Does anyone even see that anymore? I suspect most people are habituated to ignore it since it never changes.

I believe it's something to do with how Steam's "popular games" algorithm works and devs (whether correctly or incorrectly) think that they will chart higher if they try and concentrate all their sales on Steam around the initial release. If they release on GOG at the same time there are probably some customers that could go either way. By denying GOG the "launch buzz", those floating customers will go for Steam. GOG is left to mop up the die-hard anti-DRM folks and some of the late buyers.

I'm not sure what the catch is with the question?

If you scroll down on the openings page a bit you have the discover part of the site if you scroll down about almost a page length with tabs such as popular new and upcoming, If you have facebook just to follow your favorite pages such as strategy gamer, rock paper and shot gun and gardening 101 you can follow gog too you know and all the games will line up quite nicely

In games you see most people completely go crazy using 150 % of their brain capacity through sheer power of will but when it comes to game releases they go : uuhhhhhh what's up doc ?!

Good thought, being in more people's recommendations and the top sellers list sounds like a very plausible reason.

Control was announced 2 weeks before release on Aug 27th: https://www.gog.com/news/coming_soon_control_ultimate_edition

Art of Rally was announced 3 months before release on June 23rd: https://www.gog.com/news/coming_soon_art_of_rally

If you don't follow GOG on social medias, maybe it's best upon checking GOG to click on upcoming tab - show more to see the list of all upcoming games at that moment.

I dont know if you guys knew but their staff was about 450 like 2-3 years back and now they say 1.1k. It almost looks like some kind of merger has happened. 1.1k is way to much for Cyberpunk. Blizzard's staff is 1k or so.

I recommend Feedly or Inoreader. Both have great mobile apps, both can organize, sort, mark as read automatically and manage multiple sources. The day RSS goes away I stop using Internet. I can't imagine any other way to read regularly news from more than 1-3 sites.

I rate this post as the best answer. My fault for missing the information!

Shenmue 3 comes out before several of these games and various game versions, including certain titles that don't even have a release date yet.

Oh well, if the system works for other people...

Out of curiosity, does the upcoming tab also apply to AAA games? For example one of the last AAA games released was back in April or May and it was Deus EX Mankind Divided. Was that game shown on the upcoming tab before it's release on GOG, or does this only apply to indie games?