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Posted April 30, 2026
Polish gaming history joins GOG – meet Robbo, Electro Man, Heartlight, Citadel Remonstered, and more.

Some releases feel like milestones. This is one of them.

Today, we're adding seven games to GOG – five of them joining the GOG Preservation Program – and nearly all of them are available for free. They're Polish classics, some among the earliest games ever made in Poland, and having them here, preserved, playable, and yours to keep forever, genuinely means something.

Meet Robbo – one of Poland's first digital heroes

If you grew up in Poland in the late 80s or early 90s, you know Robbo. If you didn't – you're about to. Created by Janusz Pelc in 1989, Robbo is a puzzle-action game that became a cultural phenomenon, spawning sequels, remakes, and a fanbase that never really went away.

Today, we're adding three versions of Robbo to GOG:
Robbo (Atari version) – the original, emulated and preserved
Adventures of Robbo – the beloved sequel
Robbo Millennium – the modern remake, available to purchase

Having all three on GOG simultaneously – the emulated Atari original, the first PC port, and the Millennium remake – is something we're genuinely proud of. It's a complete picture of one of Poland's most important gaming characters, and it matters for Polish digital cultural heritage.

But at the beginning we said 7 games, didn't we? Well, four more games are joining GOG today, all part of the GOG Preservation Program and all for free:

Electro Man – a kinetic action platformer that pushed the limits of what Polish PC gaming could do

Heartlight – a puzzle game that earned international recognition, published by Epic MegaGames

Citadel Remonstered – a Doom-style first-person shooter initially made for Amiga. The refreshed version joins the GOG Preservation Program today

MaSzyna – a free, open-source Polish train simulator with a devoted community that has kept it alive and evolving for years. A genuine piece of Polish gaming culture worth having in your library

Almost everything here is free – and that's not an accident. The GOG Preservation Program – the ongoing effort of licensing, restoring, and maintaining classic games so they remain playable – requires investment. That investment is made possible in part by our GOG Patrons community.

If you'd like to be part of that, you can join HERE.

Getting some of these games here took years of persistence. Thank you to everyone who made this possible – and to our community for making it worth doing. Let's keep making games live forever, together.

In the meantime, we’re also holding a Polish Promo, until May 8th, 7 AM UTC. Check it out!
Posted May 03, 2026
About the train simulator, MaSzyna, for those looking for it the manual is the file " en-readme.html "
Located in the game directory (by default C:\GOG Games\MaSzyna\ )

there's this in english too :
https://eu07.pl/docs/inne/readme_pliki/en-keys.html

It's a rather in-depth simulator
So of course there's some need to learn what the levers and buttons do before managing to drive your train, but it's made more complex that all the indication on the panels are in polish , fortunately when moving the mouse cursor you may get an english name

But it's very clunky all around to get the mouse cursor where you want as i sometime had the view moving around the cursor while sometime not, rather weird probably missed a keybind
(and while exploring the buttons i even managed to get a crash)

There's some window popup that you need to expand manually (took me a while to figure it out) in order to actually see the hint about what to do to start the engines.
changing the controls in the launcher seems impossible if you don't understand polish as even when the interface is set to english the control description is all in polish

But what surprised me the most is that after downloading the +20gb offline installer, i noticed it seemed to take forever to install.

Once installed the game is near to 80 gb ! really didn't expected this to take so much huge amount of space.

Seems if you're really looking for indepth , this MaSzyna may be really great as it's truly a simulator with all the process required ... once you get used to the controls of course
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Posted May 03, 2026
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Sanc: -snip-
Ah, so it has the same problem I had with the Tupolev jets in Flightgear: I can't read any Cyrillic.

I wonder though, how does this all compare to OpenRails?

https://github.com/openrails/openrails Another open source rail simulator, and one I'd actually heard of.

Mind, I'm more of a steam rail appreciator vs modern rail logistics...and those tend to only have so many valves.
Posted May 03, 2026
sometimes is windy what it is : ) a Polish information card on one of the stations
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Posted May 03, 2026
I remember getting Electro Man when I was a kid. It was fun but also very frustrating. I think I got somewhere near the end but never quite managed to finish it. At least I can give it another shot now if I can muster the patience! Really cool to learn that it is Polish as I never knew that.
Posted May 03, 2026
Thanks for the free games.
Posted May 04, 2026
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dnovraD: https://github.com/openrails/openrails Another open source rail simulator, and one I'd actually heard of.
It's a good one, i'm running my good old Microsoft Train Simulator trains and routes with it from time to time (Open Rails was originally designed to run MTS content with a more modern OS compatible and effects engine, but nowadays has plenty of content made for it).

OpenRails is much easier to get into i felt than MaSzyna, as the procedure you have to follow to start a train by example is easier to deal with when everything is in english and you know that language.

https://www.openrails.org/
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Posted May 04, 2026
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Sanc: (....)
... isn't like Transport Tycoon (the original Train Simulator 2001 base game, developed by British Kuju Entertainment and released by Microsoft) and Open Transport Tycoon (Open Rails, developed by Worldwide Society, including Polish fans, translators, and contributors)?

Yet, with all of that, MaSzyna is an original game, featuring higher realism and more local tracks. It is a perfect product to celebrate local culture while Open Rails is a worldwide game based on British production.

I don't understand how in the light of current promo these two could compete, I also request big translations work on MaSzyna so foreign drivers could take a chance in passing Polish exams more easily..... as believe or not.... The Maszyna game is still used as training tool for real operators' training along with Zusi and SimRail..... and that is placing Maszyna somewhere between a video game project and a professional educational tool....

Speaking of which, I would love to see educational programs of all sorts here on GOG.com
....I know we have some dating sims, music creators, and machine simulators, still waiting for language programs, antivirus software, early learning, medium learning, higher learning.... ^°
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Posted May 04, 2026
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Azdul: Altirra (Robbo) is under GNU license, you should either include source code, or host it.

Author is not too happy about breaking the license, and it should not be too complicated to fix. and just include source code in the package.
Yeah, with last minute changes the src file was not included. It's added now, thanks for spotting!
Posted May 04, 2026
I hope that MaSzyna will get some more translation, it's a very good simulator but unfortunately very hard to get into when already in the launcher most scenarios and descriptions are still only in polish only (even with language set to english).

It's still a very good simulator , it feels more indepth than OpenRails, no surprise it's used as training tool.
Posted May 04, 2026
thx for letting know about maszyna
Posted May 05, 2026
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Schnuff: Some of the Shareware games were good (Keen, Doom to name a few). But looking through the reviews back than those games are: Don't touch them...even for free they are a waste of time and space.
On the bright side, space back then was...10 Meg maybe? So, why not try them. I'm very glad to try some of those earlier era games from when computing (especially gaming) was not so globalised and every bunch of places had local must-plays, especially since home gaming was a relatively new tech for the common people, it was made (and enjoyed) by little teams (makers and players being very close and few compared to now, almost the same people, something that we still see in some open source community but now is generally rarer, with bigger studios and buyers are often more of consumers to business companies, or at most backers, than fans purchasing from...bigger fans).
It's like living someone else's early adolescence back in time
(see the "Robbo is love" comment up there, for example).
That's one of the things this site is about: usually "catering to nostalgia" is a flaw and one to be fairly ashamed of, but if done well and not limiting yourself to only that, it makes sense, and it's actually a good thing.

Citadel is interesting.

Speaking of semi-obscure but beloved mascots, I'd like a return of Superfrog, also a local (UK) and alternative mascot platformer (its bigger mainstream counterpart being Sonic, I suppose) based on a local and sadly near-discontinued "half-niche" system (the AMIGA, that had a bunch of really great years in the early nineties since it was in fact better in graphics and sound than most of the IBM-likes of the time, but later became less relevant).
It used to be here, it was delisted at some point. Same studio that made "Worms".
Post edited May 05, 2026 by marcob
Posted May 05, 2026
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Azdul: Altirra (Robbo) is under GNU license, you should either include source code, or host it.

Author is not too happy about breaking the license, and it should not be too complicated to fix. and just include source code in the package.
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shakadim: Yeah, with last minute changes the src file was not included. It's added now, thanks for spotting!
It's really satisfying to see redistributors actually care about this (most users think of proprietary as the default and tend to consider these requirements as "just details:it's free and that's all). Thanks.
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cosevecchie: Thanks for the free games GOG! Nice idea, and lots of variety on offer.
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PaterAlf: Some of them look very nice, especially the Boulder Dash clone (Heartlight).
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cosevecchie: Actually I had that written down in the "it would be nice to have these, too" section of my personal wishlist. I think I stumbled upon it in one of those "hidden DOS gems" videos on YouTube. Glad I can have it for free.
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Yigdboz: Franko: The Crazy Revenge
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cosevecchie: That would be great, especially the Amiga version.
Is this some kind of Polish "Postal"?
Post edited May 05, 2026 by marcob
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