Congratulations, impressive work! I love the tons of filter options. :) Looking forward to the implementation of sort options, which I miss the most so far.

The search already works better than the current GOG search and does not deliver stupid results like GOG does. But there's still potential to reach the power of the good old GOG search. ;)

Also for my taste the game information could be more compacted. The game segments are quite large so that only a very few games fit into a browser page, while on the other hand there are large white, almost empty blocks which unnecessarily waste space. And maybe fold the game extensions and make them expandable on demand only. With games like Europa Universalis IV in the list you have to scroll through almost 3 pages of extensions before you get to the next game.

Is there a way to switch off the right column to gain more space? I'm zapping it away with uBO now, but I rather would like to avoid that as it might interfere with the page logic. :)

I would prefer to have a finer granularity for the price filter. Instead of having 8 rather coarse settings for the price one field to set the max price or maybe even the price range would be much better. Same for the discount filter.
And it would be very helpful to have the information when a discount on a game ends to not have to switch forth and back between GameSieve and the GOG game page every time.

I do not like any preset game filtering, like the special handling of the NSFW tag. The default game list should be unfiltered. Why handling one tag specially? Why NSFW and not for example Gore, Violent or age restrictions? Especially as GOG's data quality is not very reliable, to say it nicely. At least please keep that setting encoded in the URL so that we do not have to disable it every time when joining the site.

Would it be possible to integrate the game ratings from GOG, please?

First things first, wow, nice work, thank you for all the effort put into this.

It is, "okay_tag=nsfw" to disable it. But yes, I don't like that it's treated separately and on by default either.

Otherwise, yes, I would also like being able to enter ranges for all numeric filters, be it price, discount, release date, addition date... And in case of dates, even better if an actual date could be entered as part of the range instead of just year.
But first would be the ability to select as many filters as you want and apply once instead of reloading for each. As it is, especially with single selection instead of ranges, there will be queries that'd require reloading several dozen times.
And am I missing it or there's no "clear all filters" option?

And I'll join foxgog in asking for local prices also listed in USD. Offers an actual comparison, and I for one have it set to show in USD on GOG too... Not like EUR would be local currency here either anyway.
And there are some games where some EU countries don't get the hiked up price. First example I found while checking now is Expeditions: Viking. Also Fallen Enchantress. Some older additions I'd say.

Thanks for taking the time to consider the feedback! :)
Thanks for the example, so that is what it looks like. :) Yes, I'm getting it in light mode, plus the format doesn't work well with the TOR window size (but I've gotten used to that, as everything is optimized for widescreen now). I don't mind things looking good, but I've come to look past such things as more often than not, today, websites are nothing but style over substance.
This is on TOR Browser 13.5.15 (based on Mozilla Firefox 115.22.0esr), which should be the most recent one, on W7, anyway.
In the screenshot I've been hovering the mouse over the entry for the DOOM (2016) + OST bundle; as you see it looks like I could exclude the entry from the results (which seems like a useful feature to have, actually, like a temporary version of the "reverse wishlist" mentioned above).
I'll yet have to see how combining the different filters actually turns out after a bit of use.
The ideal sorting seems to change depending on the status of the search: if I'm starting a fresh search, I'll want to quickly find the tags I wish to filter for/against, whereas in a completed search I might find the current sorting better if I wish to further refine the search by possibly excluding tags that swamp it. Then again, if I wish to refine the search by adding a filter that's not yet present or to exclusively select one of the lesser yielding ones, I don't have a way to quickly find the tag as it doesn't have any particular order. At worst, I'll need to read every entry. So maybe add a dropdown to just let the user select a different sorting on the fly, if desired?

Hello again gogtrial34987!

I was thinking of how or actually where to implement such a switch.

Maybe, you could place it as a single toggleable button next to the regions flag selection list, on their left side.
By default all shown regional values (other than from the US) are being displayed in their corresponding regional currency, and the above mentioned button toggles them to switch to their equivalent US dollar values, and back to the respective regional currency.

In doing so, you would not need to display more, parallel price values redundant for the majority of people who do not have any use for this kind of information, while me and the few other interested ones can switch the results shown on demand.

Hello eiii!

I like your suggestion of a foldable list display of dlc items.
I am not sure about the default setting, though. I would make the default for these lists (folded or unfolded) depending on the chosen relevant filter options.
... And after having tested it, I see, there is something like that what I would suggest already in place:

If the user chooses, for instance, "no Expansions" then the resulting games (even those who have lots of dlc items available in the catalogue, such as "Alien Isolation") appear without their dlc and extra contents in the list, but do provide the following suspended list of editions and expansions/dlc items!

In the case of "Alien: Isolation" it appears with:

[Edit:]
(for whatever reason, the rest was cut off, yestersay)

... a collapsed view indicating

> Show 1 edition, 8 expansions

Which when unfolded or uncollapsed open up to display a list view of each edition and expansion with their respective current price information.

Kind regards,
foxgog

That's there. See the "Paleo Pines" example in this screenshot, which has "Show 1 edition, 2 expansions". Do you have JavaScript disabled somehow that you're not seeing that? I'm really not doing anything fancy with the script, so I'd expect it to Just Work everywhere... Which browser are you using? Which version?
(Oh, or do you mean a separate collapse, solely for the expansions, while editions e.a. do expand?)

Expansions and other dependent items (should) collapse if there are 3 or more total. If there are only 2, they show regularly, since very little space would be gained by collapsing them.
This is not dependent on any filtering options.

Is that indeed the behavior you see? (Whatever you meant to paste (?) after the colons in your post didn't appear - screenshots you need to manually attach, and can only be 500kb max, so frequently need to be cropped or saved as jpg). If not, could I ask you for a screenshot and browser + version?

Some way of hiding games (owned or not) is a massive wish for myself as well; I also want wishlists with priorities, and envision it all together as one integrated system. I expect that to be a massive undertaking to function well while keeping the close to the current performance, so it's a long-term plan - but I'm very much going to try for it once easier and higher priority items are out of the way.

Was working on this yesterday. I unfortunately encountered several rabbit-holes on the way, so need to take a step back to see if I just want one or two simple sort options for now, and my over-engineered ultimate solution for later - or if I'm going to bite the bullet and do it all properly right away.

I indeed envision an optional compact/condensed mode without covers or large text - basically like the expansions display, but then for just the games. That's a medium-term plan.

The empty block of white space to the left of the tags should only show when you have a large screen (it's basically reserved space for items which had their all-time-low price more than a year ago, in which case I show two columns, one for the best price from the last year, one for the all-time low). On smaller screens, the tags should push into that white space, before flipping below. Vertically, effectively no space should be lost because of this, with the exception of games that have 15+ tags on a small range of screen resolutions.

It should be safe enough to zap it like that, though I do plan more useful features for that sidebar, which is why I'm trying to keep it showing to the side until the screen resolution gets really small.
Better would be to give that sidebar (article.sub) a min-width of 100% with a user style, which will cause it to flip below the rest of the content.

This would mean form input elements, with a lot of added complexity for form handling and input validation, which is why I opted for my current approach for now. I do see the use - but it's going to be a long-term thing. I'll explicitly add it to the roadmap now, though, so I won't forget. And see more in my answer below to Cavalary.

For both of these: Unfortunately GOG doesn't expose that information through their official API, so this isn't something I'm going to be able to add anytime soon. I'll eventually look into hooking into the unofficial store API like gogdb does, but that has the risk of breaking anytime GOG changes something internally, so I'll have to explicitly design for that.

As Cavalary mentioned, it is in the URL as okay_tag=nsfw, so you can for the moment just bookmark that page. I have remembering your preference for this as a medium-term item on the roadmap. I don't expect to change my mind on this default given the way the sidebar looks whenever there's a large batch of medibang games dropping - that's just not the first impression I want anyone to have of my site - but I do hear you (and the others) speaking up about it, and will continue to re-examine my choice.

Besides what I wrote just above to eiii, thank you, specifically, for the way you phrased this. That helped me solidify my thinking a lot about the eventual solution I want to pursue, namely a toggle for the sidebar to "expert mode", where you get a form for everything that's now a link, and can submit it in one go once it's set the way you want it to. It's a medium-term plan.

Click on the logo to return to the homepage. Or if you want to retain the search while clearing all filters, just hit the "Find" button again.

Okay, thanks for the additional request!

I know that prices indeed differ between EU-countries; it's purely within the eurozone (those EU-countries officially using the euro as their only currency) where I believe prices to be identical (but need to validate that belief).

That screenshot is extremely useful. I see the styling of the "selected" filters being applied to all links, which is causing the title to take up a huge amount of vertical space, and to gain that red "X", same as the links for the expansions.
I use a "search" element to wrap the selected filters and tell search engines and assistive technologies that those filters are part of the search setup, but that element has only been supported since Firefox 118, so for you it acts as an unknown element (which is benign), but I also had a trivial bug with the paragraph element inside it and the combination caused what you saw (where for most people, the search element would've contained that bug).

I just pushed a fix. That should make all those red Xs disappear for you, and cause the titles to take up a lot less space. Let me know if it doesn't - there are some other approaches I can also take to try and fix this.

One thing which might help is that the main search also searches through the text of all tags that are applied to each game. So if you know a tag exists, you can just include or exclude it in the initial search phrase. There is one caveat there, in that if you search for 4+ positive terms, I only require 3+ to match before the item shows.

Anyway, again really useful feedback. I'm not going to change anything right now in this space, but I'll take it into account when diving into the eventual "expert mode" for the filters.

Sorry, my fault. The folding only does not work with the old browser on my game computer. Looks good on a newer browser. :)

I like the info how much a game price is better than the previous best, great idea, never came to my mind to calculate it that way. But my main use case would be to search for all games which are currently on a (new) lowest price (or highest discount) and sort the resulting list by price, discount or rating, in case you implement it. For the sort order I do not care too much about how much the new price is better than the previous best. When you look at the lower part of this list, the games are sorted by discount, so games with a similar price are distributed over multiple pages now. I would like to have the option to also sort that list by price or maybe by rating. Hope that gives you a bit of input for the decisions.

I do not have a large screen and usually do not use my browser in full-screen mode. I was referring to the mostly empty, white boxes Dawnsinger reported above in a better way. You already have fixed it. Good job, much better now.

Maybe consider to move that content to a separate tab or separate page as this column is not directly related to the search. Personally I would prefer to keep it separated from the search to have as much space available as possible for the search results. You even could make that your front page and open the search page from there. Just thinking... :)

When you are looking for other ideas, I would love to have an easy access to older news posts as GOG only displays the last 11 entries, which sometimes overflows within a day or two. But I'm not sure if GOG would like that idea... ;)

Where do you get that gamelist on the sidebar from, anyway? From the highlights section, the news posts, ...?

Could we then for the meantime maybe have a few more options in the low price range, please, to hunt down the cheap games? Maybe add 1, 2 and 3? Perhaps you could drop the $40 step to compensate a bit for the space, having 1-2-3-5-10-20-30-50 then?

I don't know if it's "official", but there's an API for the ratings, which GOG itself uses on the game cards:

https://reviews.gog.com/v1/products/GAMEID/averageRating

It even gives you the number of votes, which GOG unfortunately has removed from their UI a few years ago, but for me is an essential information. The only parameter I know so far is: "?reviewer=verified_owner".

For the end of a discount I unfortunately haven't found any API yet. It seems to be available only on the game cards, in a bad format.

Yes, I saw that. Hence my remark. It was more about to please keep it there, as a URL parameter. :)

A lot of web pages these days keep their state in cookies, local storage, internal variables or whatever, making it much harder for people to enter a page in a certain state. Having the parameters encoded in the URL is much more user friendly. I like it.

Check. There really are lots of usecases for sorting. I guess I'll forego the quick fix, and opt for the more thorough solution.

Ah, good to hear. I really underestimated how many people would still be on older browsers in various circumstances.

This is not a direction I'm interested in going in. I'm not saying it'll never happen - maybe several years down the road, if my site becomes an "all things GOG" fansite/hub or somesuch? - but I doubt it.
(Though wow, I was not aware of that API endpoint. Do you know if it's listed anywhere official, or is this one just known through observing what GOG itself does?)

I gather all products every couple of hours, and note changes. The sidebar is just the list of games which had their "forsale" field set to true (either by being newly added, or by leaving coming-soon releasestatus) in order by when I saw that happen - and then split between main and dependent product by an algorithm for determining this, which I tweaked over a couple of months (with manual oversight and occasional ad-hoc overrides, since data quality is not gog's strong suit). :)

When you have sorting by price, this wish should mostly go away, right?
For people who don't care too much about the specific price, having to toggle both 1 and 2 and 3 and 5, rather than just 5, would be a severe downgrade. I could maybe do something with a second level, but that immediately adds another level of complexity, and makes the effort better spent elsewhere (for now).
Also, dropping the 40 bracket would be annoying for users who turn off grouping to specifically search for upgraded editions. Plus I'd have to make similar changes for each of the other currencies. Picking good, consistent brackets is hard. I'm aware the current solution isn't perfect, but taking everything into account, I do believe it's close to a local maximum (or will be, once I add the sorting).

Ah, I indeed seem to have skipped over your final sentence. Sorry, have been running a bit ragged keeping up with everything. :)

Anyway, all of that is very much my philosophy, too! There is a usecase for remembering preferences in a cookie, but I will try my very best not to have that interfere with the clean URLs I have right now - those form the very core of how I want the site to work.

Hello gogtrial34987!

Thanks you for your reply! I edited my last post, because for whatever reason the last part got cut off.

The behaviour which I am seeing is the one illustrated in these two screenshots. (See attachement)


By the way, I realized that I would like to suggest the addition of filter options regarding the different editions within the "About the Game" category, such as:

- Standard Edition only
- Bundle (-> with other games)
- (base) Game + Soundtrack
- Complete Edition

Some times, I am only interested in the base game, or the base game with its expansion, but excluding the Soundtrack, and for few examples I would want the base game together with its soundtrack.

The above suggested filter options would depict among the search results only the corresponding edition of each matching game and their pricing information.

Although, I can already see a problem with the different naming of such editions in the catalogue: Standard, Game of the Year, Deluxe, Collector's, Collection, Complete, Ultimate, Hero, Royal, and what else--where neither necessarily mean the actual "complete" package.

And I have not tested extensively the combination of various already available filter options, yet.

Kind regards,
foxgog

Good - that's indeed the way it's meant to be. :)


Turn off grouping, and then see the "Type of product" filter, which comes close to this.

For all games which include a soundtrack, you'd use the included goodies: audio filter in combination with both "basic" and "upgraded" game.

I'd like to offer a foolproof way to find the "most complete edition" of a game, but I think for the moment I'd just recommend using the default grouped view and looking at the editions (generally not more than 3 per game) to pick the most expensive one. If there are no editions, but there are expansions/goodies, you'd have to buy them separately.

Fallen Enchantress Ultimate Edition in Eurozone:
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain: 39.99 EUR
Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia: 36.49 EUR

Oh, and about including user wishlists, remember how that MaGOG feature sure drove the nominations on the Community Giveaway...

Thanks! With that belief invalidated, that's a whole chunk of extra work to come to grips with. Though for the moment the stated API limits will prevent me from doing anything about it...

I love it gogtrial!

Now I can find all the games released in a single year making it easier for me to make a "Best GOG games of 2025" video for next year. :D