Been looking to buy Wildermyth. But I am not sure about getting it through Gog instead of Steam. The sale only has 8 hours left.

There is this https://www.gog.com/forum/wildermyth/coop_possible_for_more_than_3_players

But also there are mods for Wildermyth that depend on Steam workshop to install. Sure there is rough work arounds and I could hunt down and install mods independently. But that is a far cry from being able to look through mods in a data base and just add and remove them as what mod is working best for me. Especially as I am using Linux Heroic flapak installed, which makes adding mods manually more complicated. At the very least the install directory address is incredibly long and arbitrary and each game seems to be spread out into different locations

It seems Wildermyth has a decent moding community and have been told there are mods for Wildermyth worth using.

What do people think, is there a solution or is this just a game I should buy from Steam instead of Gog?

Can you install a gog game to Steam and then use Steam workshop and cloud saving?

No. But modders should be putting their mods on places other than Steam Workshop anyway, like NexusMods. Only putting them on Steam Workshop just encourages Steam's "quasi-monopoly".

But if you're desperate for convenience for modding, Steam is the way to go.

That's all well and good but if most moders for a game are NOT doing that, then I still need to consider this as a customer.

Additionally nexusmods doesn't install and remove mods with a click, which as I mentioned before is a significant issue with Linux heroic flatpak installed So even if every single mod for Wildermyth was available on Nexusmods and none of them are Steam exclusive (which is also apparently a thing) I'd still have reason to buy from Steam verses Gog.

Talking about monopolies is fine except that we'd have to get into capitalism corruption and destruction of everything, it's enshitification of all. And we aren't allowed to talk about that or something, right? It's not like Steam is anything special in this regard.

In fact thanks to Steam Linux is much more viable for games which pushes against Microsoft monopoly on home PC OS., which is more of a issue considering how bad Windows has gotten. You can even find games on Gog that have Linux versions, just not for Gog.

And of course games that just stop getting updated on Gog if not missing features present on Steam but missing on Gog.. It may not be fair to Gog but it still can be rough for Gog customers. Though I don't know, surely there is something Gog staff can do with their rules and developer agreements with games to push back against all this that they seem to not be doing. Like maybe some kind of fine if a developer stops supporting a game on Gog that is still getting updates on Steam, or at least remove such games from Gog or at the very very least big bold warning that the version of the game is out of date and will never be updated. etc. Also to refund people who have this happen to them. And other approaches that come to mind that could start addressing some of these issues. So I suppose I can put some blame on Gog company.

Maybe Gog could implement their own version of steam workshop.

GOG are incredibly smaller compared to Steam; they may not have resources to spare to create their own Steam Workshop. Plus there'd be at least a minor backlash from people on the forum. Some devs would rather remove their games than have to update for such a small platform that brings in so little money, and maybe GOG should be doing "update or gtfo" more.

Look, if convenience in modding is that important to you, then unfortunately GOG probably isn't the store for you. I don't know what else to tell you. There are a few "one-click mods" here but only a few: https://www.gog.com/en/games/tags/mod

But I would encourage people to respond to your question in the title.

You can use the Steamcmd steam client to download mods from the workshop, provided that the developer for (some reason) hasn't blocked that.

I did it with a terraria mod to make the Angler NPC far less insufferable. Keep in mind, you need to know the game and mod ID while doing so, and the game needs to have...the means to provide you for easy modding, such as a Mods folder.

Not exactly pertaining to the text of the topic, but for passerby's here's different thread - https://www.gog.com/forum/general/any_good_alternatives_to_nexusmods/page1.

As to your text - agree with tfishell - if your desperate for convenience - steam is the way to go. :/ Heavens please no...

If convenience is not the primary issue and you simply want to download mods that are locked behind steamworkshop and don't bother tinkering - steamcmd should still work.

Also - this thread is probably also still up-to-date: https://www.gog.com/forum/rimworld/guide_how_to_download_mods_directly_from_steam What do you mean... far less insufferable... -.-

I really find it condescending and dismissive for anyone to use terminology like "desperate" for "convenience" in this context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVNPw66A1EE

There is alot of steps to getting mods from steam workshop and more to installing them, and yet more to removing them. If you want to try many different mods to find which combination works for you, this is no small issue. That is assuming it even still works, I've heard Valve has made efforts to shut down some of that and I've heard of mods that only work with Steam.

See, I am not part of Gog religion, I don't worship companies or virtue signal about meritorious work of possibly installing mods through other means falls on deaf ears. I just want to play fun games. I get it, if you don't have to work hard getting the game you bought run the way it should then you lose out on proving to your Gog deities that you will work hard for them while giving them your money.

But you've forgotten that if you work hard even if you don't need to, then that will further prove your devotion. So you should want Gog to implement a easy way to add and remove mods so you can ignore it and brag about doing it the hard way even though you didn't need to, on the forum.

I usually use this program to download mods from the workshop. It doesn't work with every game but you can give it a try and see.
https://github.com/imwaitingnow/WorkshopDL

Does it work with Linux?

Also I can't try it on a game I haven't bought yet. I suppose I could buy the game and try it that way and then return it if it doesn't work

Don't know about linux but maybe it could work through Wine. As for the other question you can try and see if it downloads the mods. You don't need to own the game on steam to do that. If it does download then it works and you just have to place the files wherever they would normally be installed when downloading from the workshop. I've read somewhere that there is a setting that the developer of the game can activate that lets people download mods from the workshop. If the developer did that then it should work.

Maybe me calling you "desperate" was too strong, but I stand by what else I said. Clearly you want modding to be more convenient than it currently is on GOG, so Steam is the way to go for that. Unfortunately that's just the way it is. I don't know what else really needs to be said or debated over; we don't know if GOG will be releasing a "GOG Workshop" in the near future but really don't plan on it happening any time soon.

Your profile says you have 300+ games, which is cool to see because I do encourage supporting GOG, but again GOG is not the poster boy for gaming convenience. (Unfortunately sometimes you even have to fiddle to get their old games working, just because of the nature of hardware/software combinations out there.)

I mean that the Angler treats the player akin a retail store clerk, and I replaced them with the lass angler whose speech is much less, "Yes, good slave! Go fetch my fish!"

Crap! My mistake!
I mixed up Terraria with Stardew Valley...

I could not understand how and why someone would have an issue with Willy, the fisherman. He's a chill guy.
Terraria's angler though... yeah, he behaves like royalty, and I'm being very, very diplomatic here... why someone would want to swap him out is fully understandable.

Off hand I do not know which github program functions with Wine. But out of the 3 or so cmd programs, I know at least one should, when Wine is set up with everything it needs. Its just annoying to have to sift the files it downloads and dumps into the drive.

To bad a browser extension of the same software has not been made. Would make perfect sense. Oh well.