I'm with this theory:

I'm unfamiliar with what happened there. I presume the green light was not given by the publisher for GOG to release the game with the third-party community mods. If that's the case, I suppose they could always remove the mods and those of us who purchased and downloaded the game with the mods included can use the forums to let everyone know what mods were included and where to find them.

It's annoying that a publisher would release a game that's extremely buggy, refuse to fix it, and then complain about GOG selling a fixed version of it (if that's indeed what has happened here). Personally, I don't think GOG should be selling games that have not been fixed even though they were originally released years ago. For example, Deadly Premonition really should come with DPfix and an explanation as to how to set up the game so that it's watchable. The vanilla version of that game is horrible, and even with the third-party community mods, it still crashes quite often.

Any update on this? It's strange that we still haven't heard the official word from GOG yet.

This sucks for a lot of people - though the fact that it was #1 on the list for a while means I wasn't the only one super excited to pick it up immediately. I hope it is a 3rd party fix that they're just getting a quick "OK" for before it goes back up.

Question - I bought this as a gift code. I know, I'm weird but I do this a lot for a game I'm not going to download and fire up right away, "just in case."

I can still redeem a paid for gift code yes? I'm like 99.9% sure the answer is yes, but just making sure.

My guess too. Very sad.

Feel free to go for 100%.

In my experience, if it's still available for people who already have it in their library to download it, it's also still available to be redeemed, e.g. Alan Wake. I don't see why this game would be any different.

I see your 100% and raise you 200%. O.o

Okay just redeemed and started to download.

There was just one file to download, with the label "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth" with a version 1 next to it (this is for the non-Galaxy installer).

Is this what it looked like for everyone who already downloaded it last week / before it was removed? I just want to make sure it's the patched / modded file (at least as far as we can tell by the name of the download).


*edit* In my download link the download it called "Setup... ... _1.0_(14415)"

Yes. The only file that was available to me when I downloaded it on the 1st is setup_call_of_cthulhu_1.0_(14415).exe, which is 1.15 GB (1,238,102,176 bytes).

Awesome thanks - I actually had just updated my post to include the (14415) from the Setup and saw yours was the same after I finished the edit - seems I'm all set - let's hope it stays that way for everyone who has yet to grab this.

As a side note, maybe this finally gives me an excuse to wander away from my 5 months in The Witcher 3 to fire this up.

We have a front page news about some guy's twitch channel but no official reply about the removal of this game ?

I can't even begin to imagine playing any game for 5 months without taking a bunch of breaks to play other games. But then I'm not a fan of RPGs. That level of obsession seems to be primarily confined to that genre and its sub-genres. When it was first released for the PC, I did play through GTA: San Andreas 10 times in the space of about a year and achieved 100% completion each time. That game has far more RPG elements than any other installment in that series, and I'm not sure if that's why it's the only GTA game I've ever really gone crazy with, but I digress.
The front page headlines are always dead on the weekend, and that article was published right before it began. I hope we hear from a blue by Monday.

I've NEVER sunk as much time into a game as I have this one. I never played many of the "glory days" JRPGs that hit 100+ hours but I did solve Baldur's Gate and put a ton of time into things like Persona 4 and FFXII .

I can't believe the game has kept my attention as long as it has (and especially with my backlog containing at least 2 - 3 games I really want to jump into). I'm not even doing every... single... quest ("hunts" , collections, side quests, map blips, etc). I'm pretty much following the main story and doing side quests that look interesting but being quick to get "back on course" so I don't burn out on the game whenever I feel I'm wandering too much.

Testament to how good the game is that I'm still invested in it as I am. I can't even put a finger on why but really I haven't even been close to putting it aside. The early game seemed a bit ... slow, character progression-wise (it take a while to realize you're not going to blow through levels like in modern RPGs - levels are tougher to come by and your character is developed over a longer span of time).

But the story arcs and production / cutscenes were interesting enough during that time to keep me engaged and wanting more - since then it's just been a fun ride.

LOL that is one hell of a tangent on my part right there by the way.