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As the year comes to an end, we're at a point where we thought it would be fun to look back and celebrate one of the best years in the history of GOG.COM yet!

First, it wouldn't be possible without the continuous support we get from all of you, for which we're deeply grateful and want to thank you! Your messages, forum comments, and support tickets keep us in check, motivate us to improve, and continue to inspire us to find new solutions for your everyday gaming problems. GOG users - you're THE BEST!

This year was full of exciting events on GOG.COM, from announcing and starting the open beta of the GOG GALAXY 2.0 application that gets all your games and friends in one place, launching pre-orders for Cyberpunk 2077, to releasing exciting new and classic games.

Let's take a closer look at some of our favorite moments of the year!

Good Old Games
Without a doubt, we can say that 2019 was the year of good old games that returned DRM-free on GOG.COM. Our personal dreams came true as we managed to bring back games like the original Diablo with its Hellfire expansion, Warcraft I & II, and Blade Runner. Literal years of work came into fruition with these releases but also helped remind ourselves that nothing is impossible if we keep working hard and believing in it. We raised the bar for preserving classic games and we want to keep it at that level (and beyond) in 2020.

We also released quite a few less known or long-forgotten classic titles, like the futuristic strategy games MissionForce: CyberStorm and Submarine Titans, the original Warlords trilogy, the long-lost Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior, comic-like shooter XIII, the action-packed John Woo's Stranglehold, the recent batch of games published by Piko Interactive, and many more.

With all these releases, we have now fulfilled over 2 million votes cast on the Community Wishlist, which we celebrated back in August during Gamescom. We were present there to talk with business partners and media and meet with gamers visiting our Retro Area booth. We also made this cool video, you can check out below.

New game releases
We continue to expand the number of games available on GOG.COM, not only with classics but also with the newest AAA and indie titles that bring in fresh ideas, entertaining gameplay, and amazingly beautiful visuals.

You showed your love with Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 pre-orders and now we all wait in excitement for its debut next year. Among the big titles that were released in 2019, games like Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Darksiders Genesis, The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut, and Ashen were also welcomed in by you, as well. One of the biggest releases this year on GOG.COM was the thought-provoking and award-winning role-playing indie game Disco Elysium, followed by other super popular indie releases like Foundation, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York, and a whole bunch of retro-inspired shooters with Blood: Fresh Supply, AMID EVIL, and Ion Fury to name just a few.

We also continued to update our catalog in 2019 with games like BioShock: Infinite, Spec Ops: The Line, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, DUSK, Outward, Venetica, and many others. We do want to mention and send a special thank you to Focus Home Interactive who decided to take a leap of faith in going DRM-free. They released quite a few well-received games that included older titles like Bound by Flame and Mars: War Logs and more recent hits like Vampyr, The Surge, A Plague Tale: Innocence, and just recently GreedFall. Expect to see and play more of their games next year!

Based on your feedback, we're also continuously monitoring and reevaluating games that underwent our curation system and were initially rejected from releasing on GOG.COM. Thanks to your input, we were able to rediscover and add such unique games like the wonderful Heaven's Vault, the challenging Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar, the magical Din's Legacy, and others.

Cyberpunk 2077 pre-orders
Back in June, we celebrated the biggest Summer Sale in the history of GOG.COM. It was held at the same time as our friends from CD PROJEKT RED launched pre-orders for their highly-anticipated new game, Cyberpunk 2077. This is a very unique product for us - a huge title releasing DRM-free and with a set of additional digital goodies just for GOG users.

By pre-ordering this game on GOG.COM, you can also be sure that 100% of your money goes to CD PROJEKT GROUP, which both we and the studio are part of. We're very grateful to everyone who trusted us with their pre-orders, making our platform one of the most popular places to get the game!

GOG GALAXY 2.0
After more than 2 years of keeping it secret and developing behind closed doors, we’ve finally revealed to you and the world the next big thing for our own client. With GOG GALAXY 2.0, we wanted to make an application that is bigger than the client you know and use it (only if you want!) to manage, update, and play your GOG.COM games.

The fact that our games and friends are scattered between multiple dedicated clients and launchers is becoming increasingly annoying. We believe gamers deserve a better experience. With GOG GALAXY 2.0 we want to conveniently show you all your games as one library and make it easier than ever to stay in touch with your friends across PC and console platforms. We’re amazed and thankful for the reception of the app – thank you for all your comments, reports, and ideas that keep us going and help make the experience even better.

Of course, we haven’t forgotten about GOG.COM – GOG GALAXY 2.0 remains your optional client with features you know like auto-updates, cloud saves, cross-play, rollbacks and more. On top of that, the whole client has been rebuilt from the ground up to be better and faster. All features for third-party platforms work for GOG.COM – the new games library allows you to filter, sort and add tags to customize your views and save them for easy access. Thanks to the new friends section, you can even track your friends’ progress in every GOG.COM game, as well as see what they are currently playing.

If you are interested, you can join the open beta now and test all the features for yourself.

What's next?
For now, let's remember and celebrate this amazing year. There's also still some time left to grab thousands of deals during our Winter Sale. Once it ends on January 2nd, you can be sure we'll already be hard at work to bring you more cool games, provide the best solutions to your everyday gaming problems, and surprise you with completely new ideas.

Thank you very much for being with us this year and we'll do our best to make you proud in 2020! :)

Let us know in the comments which game is your favorite release of 2019. Did you try the open beta of the GOG GALAXY 2.0 application? What are your hopes, dreams, and resolutions for the new year?
Post edited December 27, 2019 by emter_pl
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GOG.com: ...
Let us know in the comments which game is your favorite release of 2019. Did you try the open beta of the GOG GALAXY 2.0 application? What are your hopes, dreams, and resolutions for the new year?
My new year resolution this year is 7680x1600 (triple-head).
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Cavalary: And GOG is a corporation. It started out trying to make a difference, then decided to stop and just be a business, and in doing so trash any chances of anyone else picking up that banner as well.
You're confusing cause and result.
Please bring Gog Galaxy for Linux! This could be a huge step for you guys, as the only big player on Linux is Steam. And I would definitely buy more Games at Gog!
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2019 was the second year I bought my games on GOG as good as exclusively (RE7 dropped Denuvo, and I do not see that coming to GOG ever, so I got that on Steam; Same for Amid Evil and Ion Maiden in 2018...).

There were quite a few pleasant surprises, too - like having Diablo available for purchase again; I still have two copies on CD, and they run in a fashion and with some work on Win10, but the GOG version is just superior. Or Greedfall, which reminds me a lot of earlier Bioware titles. Or finally getting the opportunity to legally buy Quake II in my country. And, of course, finally getting Dusk and They Are Billions (and Ion Maiden, and Amid Evil) on GOG.

As a result, I spent quite freely this past year, and will continue to do so as long as GOG keeps up with their catalogue. I do hope that Quake IV (already on GOG) gets its region-lock dropped. I do hope that other publishers realize that there is an untapped audience waiting for their titles to be free from DRM (Prey, the Tomb Raider reboots, Total War stuff, etc.).

All in all, GOG continues to be the sole reason I still think of myself as a gamer, a part of gaming. Much of it has become unpalatable to me (Games as Service, lootboxes and other gambling systems, always-online mechanisms, MTX in full-price games, and so on), but GOG continues to be my save haven. Please, don't frell it up in 2020.

edit: To buy WH40K: Mechanicus, jay or nay? I am on the fence... If I adore Incubation, and like Warhammer, is it solid?
Post edited January 01, 2020 by Mueslinator
Thank you GoG team! I hope you keep on improving and stay DRM free no matter what. I only buy games from you because of it.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you, GOG team! Thx for bringing us some great games to your collection in 2019 (I'm looking at your, Bioshock!). Very excited about Cyberpunk this year! ;) Wishing you guys continued success.

Keep up the good work. Keep up the drm-free. Keep up the surprises.
I"m liking in wishlist that when a discount sale is up the % is shown in the list. That's nice. I still wish on the game search you could organize by price most - lest expensive and least - most expensive. Glad it has alphabetical, most popular etc but sometimes I just want to pluck off some cheap ones and look at them.
My hopes and dreams for 2020 are Sega games on GOG. C'mon, people. Make it happen. :)
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Keighn: I"m liking in wishlist that when a discount sale is up the % is shown in the list. That's nice. I still wish on the game search you could organize by price most - lest expensive and least - most expensive. Glad it has alphabetical, most popular etc but sometimes I just want to pluck off some cheap ones and look at them.
You can do da already with Barefoot Essentials.
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GOG.com: GOG GALAXY 2.0
Of course, we haven’t forgotten about GOG.COM – GOG GALAXY 2.0 remains your optional client with features you know like auto-updates, cloud saves, cross-play, rollbacks and more. On top of that, the whole client has been rebuilt from the ground up to be better and faster. All features for third-party platforms work for GOG.COM – the new games library allows you to filter, sort and add tags to customize your views and save them for easy access. Thanks to the new friends section, you can even track your friends’ progress in every GOG.COM game, as well as see what they are currently playing.
Really? Is it really optional after all? Can I install and play Gwent on Windows without it?
GOG should try to convincer EA and Microsoft to release all their old games here. I tried showing the Xbox team like Major Nelson that there is big demand for games like MechWarrior. Hopefully they listen.
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GOG.com: Based on your feedback, we're also continuously monitoring and reevaluating games that underwent our curation system and were initially rejected from releasing on GOG.COM.
If you don't expect to make a profit on this one I understand the rejection, otherwise I'd encourage you to reconsider the rejected "Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls". I don't really have any opinion on whether or not it's a "bad game", but if the XSeed release is functional/pretty bug-free and you think you can make some money off this, I'd encourage a reconsideration of this title.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/wizardry_labyrinth_of_lost_souls

(and of course the Degica/Cave games, Hatred, Consuming Shadow, etc.)

Maybe you could release it in a month or two at a -25% discount?
Post edited January 04, 2020 by tfishell
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jalister: My challenge to GOG still stands - Enemy Infestation. https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/enemy_infestation
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StarChan: I second this. Played the demo and would love to play the entire game. Also, consider these:

Fade to Black and Ripper
I played the demo back when this first came out. When I finished the demo I immediately got in my car, drove to the mall and bought the full game. GOG has brought me so many classics DRM free, I just need one more. :)
Wish I can install new galaxy 2.0. After setup download the galaxy there is an error about disk not found or smth...
Win10/run as admin
Post edited January 05, 2020 by Shedar-1
Blade Runner truly a dream come true great work guys