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Posted March 22, 2021
Spring is finally peeking through our windows, and along with its arrival comes sunshine, the smell of flowers, and… awesome game deals! The Spring Sale on GOG.COM brings you 3,000+ shining game deals up to 92% off, as well as new additions to the catalog, and the latest demos of upcoming games.

During the Spring Sale, you can also book your ticket to Night City and get Cyberpunk 2077 for 20% off. Fans of The Witcher games will find select titles from the series up to 85% off. Of course, you can be sure that when you buy CD PROJEKT RED games directly on GOG.COM, 100% of your money goes to the CD PROJEKT Group.

To help you navigate our spring discounts, we have also prepared game collections like:

Evergreen Titles with classic games like Diggles: The Myth of Fenris (-33%) and Warcraft I & II Bundle (-15%).

Bestsellers Collection with games renowned around the world such as Dead Cells (-30%) and the Shadowrun Trilogy (-75%).

RPG Collection includes great games like Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition (-50%) and Torment: Tides of Numenera (-75%).

Strategies Collection with engaging games such as BATTLETECH (-75%) and Europa Universalis III Complete (-75%).

Deepest Discounts with fun, challenging titles like Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (-90%) and XCOM® 2 (-92%).

Breathtaking Views with games set in beautiful landscapes, such as The Falconeer (-20%) and Mount & Blade: Warband (-75%).

Fresh Indies consists of games booming with creativity, like Beat Cop (-80%) and This War of Mine (-75%).

Take a Virtual Walk with walking simulators such as Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition (-75%) and LOST EMBER (-50%).

Brave New Worlds includes games set in outer space, like Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak (-90%) and Master of Orion 3 (-50%).

There's one more special treat that we have prepared: the Soon to Bloom collection, featuring over 20 demo versions of upcoming titles. Give them a try and wishlist games like Backbone, Dorfromantik, Kathy Rain: Director's Cut, System Shock, The Tenants - Free Trial, Timberborn, and many more!

The Spring Sale on GOG.COM runs until April 5th, 2021, at 1 PM UTC.
Posted March 22, 2021
A ton of demos, i see interesting games i didn´t know, Backbone looks great.and The Longest Road has won the most languages game ported! :)
Posted March 22, 2021
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Paraharaha: As for past sales also i hope that gog will add this theme to the user profiles.
somehow gog stopped adding them for unknown (?) reasons.
i like them & they are imo a nice addition to the game themes...at least for those who like user profile themes. :-)
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KosmicznaPluskwa: It will happen eventually! I'm using Black Friday 2017 visual made by my teammate from (almost?) ever since profiles were introduced so can definitely say I sympathize :)
Well, i would surely appreciate. So thank you for at least thinking about it. :-)
Posted March 22, 2021
I can't spend much, for now I got Milkmaid of the Milky Way that I couldn't buy at (GOG) release. I might get the Inner World that I started enjoying as a Big Fish freebie and made me a good impression - let's see if the women in the game are such bad characters as someone says - probably yes lol but it can still be enjoyable. I'm undicided to get some other cheaper game or just look for one more expensive title I'd enjoy instead.
A bit disappointed for Tooth and Tail at 5 euros as I saw it in the past for 2, and I was kinda interested to try it despite a genre I'm not playing much, but it's gorgeuos. And it has mice! What's with the multiplayer on GOG?
Posted March 23, 2021
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PassiveZombie: The HMM series has yet to gain traction with me, but that is only because I haven't tried them yet. :)
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vv221: Everyone will tell you to start with Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅲ, supposedly the best game in the series.
Don’t do that ;)

For a first contact, I think it is much better to start with either:
- Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅱ, for grasping the basics with a nice "old-school" feel
- Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅴ, more complex but easier to learn than the third game, and with modern graphics and interface
Especially, start out with Heroes of Might and Magic II. It has lots of charm, a portion of which was lost in the sequels.

EDIT: Back in the day, III was a bit of a downer. The graphics were in a different style, more realistic, yet a lot of the magic was gone. II felt like Spenser's Gloriana: you traversed a magic landscape where anything might happen. Serendipituous encounters waited at the back of each corner. The sequels somehow did not convey that feeling in the same way.

III built on the reputation of II. It managed to reach an ever wider audience. It became a larger game, with expansions and more complex staff. Scenarios were larger, the figure of the supporting heroes that ferried reinforcements to the ones who carried out the fight. Many people started with the series with III and swear by it. It is a great game and there is a lot to play there. Yet the magic abides in II. If you want to experiment it and find out why III is like it is, II is the place to start.
Post edited March 23, 2021 by Carradice
Posted March 23, 2021
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idbeholdME: VI was pretty bad and I wouldn't call VII good either. But definitely more manageable than VI.
I do not know if Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅶ plays well, but I remember from my very short test that it looks really nice. They had the good idea to go back to hand-drawn 2D for several screens, and it was an improvement on the visuals of the previous games.

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idbeholdME: V easier to learn? I honestly don't think so.
From my experience, Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅴ is the easier one to grasp for someone who never played any game in this style before. But of course my experience is limited to the couple friends who learned about these games from me ;)

As for myself, I discovered these games with Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅲ first, then Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅳ, then Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅴ… And only long after that did I try the first two games.
Posted March 23, 2021
Demos for Timberborn and Dorfromantik were both appreciated. They cemented my "buy on release" stance!
Posted March 23, 2021
CDPR games on sale on Steam the same day the GOG sale starts? :P how did that happen? Did Steam throw their massive weight around for some reason?
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Posted March 23, 2021
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I just got the email with the "Find the differences" images for further discounts. Annoying enough as it is, but then each discount code leads to an infinite reCAPTCHA loop. What the hell is this garbage? I mean I guess I won't be buying anything from the email if it takes multiple stages of annoyance to even reveal a code.

Can you please, if you must use a CAPTCHA, use something simpler like the one Epic Games uses, or hCAPTCHA. For all the anti-DRM attitude, using a Google AI trainer to annoy customers and lose sales seems counter-intuitive.
Posted March 23, 2021
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badacid: I just got the email with the "Find the differences" images for further discounts. Annoying enough as it is, but then each discount code leads to an infinite reCAPTCHA loop. What the hell is this garbage? I mean I guess I won't be buying anything from the email if it takes multiple stages of annoyance to even reveal a code.

Can you please, if you must use a CAPTCHA, use something simpler like the one Epic Games uses, or hCAPTCHA. For all the anti-DRM attitude, using a Google AI trainer to annoy customers and lose sales seems counter-intuitive.
While such abuse of reCAPTCHA seems counter-intuitive, it is actually directly beneficial.

Since GOG sees fit to hide the sale items from us, first with the stupid puzzle, and then with the reCAPTCHA, it is clear that GOG does not want us to be able to honestly assess what items GOG is trying to flog at a discount, nor for us to be able to buy them at that discount.

So how is that beneficial?
It means we don't waste our money in 2 ways.
Firstly, on discounts which GOG cannot honestly, openly, and directly, tell us.
Secondly, we are not wasting our money on discounts that GOG does not actually want to sell to us.
Posted March 23, 2021
I also took Night of the Rabbit, that I had on Humble and enjoyed recently, so glad to have on GOG. And Elminage Gothic to be on the safe side as Way of the Samurai 3 has been delisted.
Posted March 23, 2021
So tempting...but I gotta save money.
Posted March 23, 2021
completely forgot there was a sale on. Must note it on calendar for those times of the year. Seems a lot of my wishlist on sale. But so little money..hah
Posted March 23, 2021
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vv221: From my experience, Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅴ is the easier one to grasp for someone who never played any game in this style before. But of course my experience is limited to the couple friends who learned about these games from me ;)

As for myself, I discovered these games with Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅲ first, then Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅳ, then Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅴ… And only long after that did I try the first two games.
I also played III first, then V, and it definitely took me longer to fully grasp everything in V. There are a lot of quirky and hidden interactions with spells, units and pretty much everywhere else whereas in III, most things are pretty straightforward. Yes, you can start playing V easily (same as III), but to play it to the full potential will take much longer than III IMO.
Posted March 23, 2021
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idbeholdME: Yes, you can start playing V easily (same as III), but to play it to the full potential will take much longer than III IMO.
I agree on this.

It is actually the most complex game of the series (not counting games after it that I do not know), especially due to the faction-specific abilities. But the basics can be grasped really easily, and it comes with convenience features like caravans that are not present in the other classic games.

By "classic" I mean all games for 1 to 5 excluding Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅳ. Despite this last one being my favourite this is not one I would suggest to newcomers ;)
Posted March 23, 2021
I did make a few purchases of software but I am a bit underwhelmed at this sale.
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