The advantage of Mac OS is, you need no installers. But GOG offers pkg installers now. ;-( With that installers it is impossible to choose the loacation of the app. The installers copy the game data to /Applications but my games are in /Games

How I install the games in an other folder (NOT /Applications) ? Or how I move the games after installing?

Woa, if it's true, that seems quite annoying.
Btw, when I read "dmg", I always think at "damage" lol.

Other problem: Sometimes I test different versions of a game. Now the installer overwrintes the old/new version, because it is not possible to choose the install location of the game!!! With Windows installers I can choose the location/path/folder of the installation. With that annoying pkg installers the location is always /Applications

Next problem: now you need administrator rights to install games! With dmg packages you can drag&drop the files in a simple way without any rights.

They use .pkg's!? That's news to me. What games have you encountered that use .pkg files?

Assuming that the games are still installed as .app bundles with all of their game data contained therein, I don't see why you couldn't just move it from /Applications to whatever location you please. .dmg files are basically virtual disk images files similar to .cue files and the like. Open up the .dmg, then copy over the .app file, and you're done.

.pkg files are annoying because they're packages with install scripts, which mean that a given program may put stuff in all manner of places. That's of course necessary if you're talking about something that installs system-level components like a disk repair or anti-virus program. It's annoying when it's something like a game.

Open the pkg with Pacifist and extract the app to whatever location you want. No admin privileges required. The Witcher Adventure Game did come in a pkg (though I don't think it does anymore) because it was bundled with the beta build of Galaxy.

I know that GOG Galaxy and some DLCs/expansions (Outlast I believe) come as pkg installer, which makes in my eyes sense, as for the DLCs/expansions you need to change files inside the main game app. Which main game on gog comes now as pkg?

For Galaxy itself, I would think it more logical to come as a dmg disk image, as the app directory simply needs to be copied to wherever you want it (running the application should set everything else up if it's the first time, and otherwise simply read any existing configuration from your user library). As for add-ons, you do have a point.

GOG Galaxy does not work outside the app folder. I believe while installation there was a warning, but I also tested it without luck. I guess it's because Galaxy installs files in the system area of MacOS and not just the Library. So maybe it needs a fix place for the main app. Personally I also prefer just an app and I'm a little bit curious why Galaxy needs to have installed so many files in many different places. But as I don't really need Galaxy I honestly don't care about it, I just don't use it anymore.

Steam comes as a dmg image, from which you just copy a small (a couple MB) app to wherever you want (I think?), and it downloads the rest when launched the first time. But maybe Steam just puts its games in your user directory rather than making them available machine-wide? I'll have to check that. I figure Galaxy should be able to act similarly.

I honestly would appreciate both, the dmg file including following downloads (last time I used Galaxy it also needed to download the latest updates) and to have an option to put all games hidden in the user library insetad of the app folder (easier to exlude from Time Machine backups and a more business-looking app folder ;-))

Is that connected with the problem that Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition got blocked by Gatekeeper?

That is wrong. I use GOG Galaxy with a self created root folder named /Games
I don't like games and apps in the same folder...

If I move the game, the game disappears from Galaxy... It would be greate to use an alternative folder.

Interesting. I guess the folder is outside the home-folder. I tried to move Galaxy to an folder inside my home folder and as far as I remember Galaxy didn't worked.

After you moved the game you can search for it again. I believe it was an option hidden behind the +-button on the left side. You can also install games directly into another folder (you should be asked while installation. That's what I remember while I was playing around with Galaxy maybe two days ago (had a problem with a broken installer and wanted to see if the galaxy version would work).

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