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Cavalary: Also, itch.io and ZOOM have no meaningful major publisher support like GOG.
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71Planes19: They still have some decent titles regardless.
Do you know a game from those other shops i enjoy and not either already owned and as well not on GOG?
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71Planes19: They still have some decent titles regardless.
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Xeshra: Do you know a game from those other shops i enjoy and not either already owned and as well not on GOG?
You can buy the Duke Nukem games on Zoom, but most of the games there are also sold here. ZP has rarely sales. You can get most of their games with high discounts here on GOG (or Steam). You can buy KnightShift from your wishlist for $6.99 on ZP, here on GOG you can buy it for $1.79 because of the the current discount.

Most of the decent games on itch.io you can find also on Steam or here.
Post edited July 13, 2025 by foad01
Okay... so it would be useless for me, to be precise.

GOG is the only way to go.
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71Planes19: They still have some decent titles regardless.
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Xeshra: Do you know a game from those other shops i enjoy and not either already owned and as well not on GOG?
Weird question, a game you'd enjoy. How is anyone supposed to know that?
Zoom has a bunch of educational titles, so they have that niche that GOG didn't really go to. But if you look at their bestsellers, after the Duke Nukem games there's Commandos: Strike Force, Postal III, Hardwar, Hatred, Knights of the Temple 1 and 2, a bunch of racing games, Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs, The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki, War and Peace: 1796-1815, Mega-Lo-Mania, they still have Raptor: Call of the Shadows... and I scrolled far enough I think.

On the other hand, itch currently lists almost 1.2 million titles, so... See what I said before, good luck picking. But if you check the bestsellers, you'll see entire pages at the top of the list made almost exclusively of X-rated titles. WolfQuest seems the odd one out in the first couple of pages.
It does not matter how many games they got, i simply am almost never interested. Obviously it is very subjective but to me... i can not feel like getting a quality game there, in general. We got a different taste, for sure... GOG got way more quality games, and the industry is already struggling fully supporting only the best DRM free store and to me... it is the only one: The others barely would be able to provide me... if at all.

As well, i lack the time for playing anything but the very best and even the very best is already to much to handle.

It is as it is: GOG is the only true quality DRM free store, either support it or someday the gamers can take out their caravel with a huge gun fitted on it.
Post edited July 14, 2025 by Xeshra
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71Planes19: They still have some decent titles regardless.
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Xeshra: Do you know a game from those other shops i enjoy and not either already owned and as well not on GOG?
Zoom is the only way to get "Atlantis Evolution" in a version worth buying. The one on GOG is basically the mobile version. It's actually the only game I own on that platform :)
Post edited July 14, 2025 by MarkoH01
Okay, still no deal because i am not much into puzzle-games, and in no way can i stand point and click-games...
Anyway, from what i see in the video it is a quality game, in its original version only. GOG should get this version... the mobile port is indeed trash, this is not a GOG game and not a GOG version, it is a disgrace.

This one is good, indeed (just not my genre):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCNssXd-I6I&list=PL6iNuXuk2gdgTzNfuKI_FRguKQ011SH4J&index=1

GOG should ask the publisher "Microids" if they can get the rights on the original version as well and then publish a bundle with both games inside. If not the GOG version may soon catch spiderwebs. It is kinda in the same class of games such as "Myst" (probably the most popular of them) but it was never my game, it is for others.
Post edited July 14, 2025 by Xeshra
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Xeshra: Do you know a game from those other shops i enjoy and not either already owned and as well not on GOG?
I don't know your tastes, but I know they have a bunch of 'eurojank' and stuff from StrategyFirst.
They also have some titles gog either delisted or never sold (like the duke nukem games and postal 3).
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Xeshra: Do you know a game from those other shops i enjoy and not either already owned and as well not on GOG?
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Cavalary: Weird question, a game you'd enjoy. How is anyone supposed to know that?
Zoom has a bunch of educational titles, so they have that niche that GOG didn't really go to. But if you look at their bestsellers, after the Duke Nukem games there's Commandos: Strike Force, Postal III, Hardwar, Hatred, Knights of the Temple 1 and 2, a bunch of racing games, Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs, The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki, War and Peace: 1796-1815, Mega-Lo-Mania, they still have Raptor: Call of the Shadows... and I scrolled far enough I think.

On the other hand, itch currently lists almost 1.2 million titles, so... See what I said before, good luck picking. But if you check the bestsellers, you'll see entire pages at the top of the list made almost exclusively of X-rated titles. WolfQuest seems the odd one out in the first couple of pages.
really ? i only heard about itch going "woke" and banning sexy games.
from this short list i found, all of them were anime style games and 1 loli anime game.
>> itch.io/c/4119979/itchio-is-woke-shadowbanned-and-banned-games

sounds like itch is going crash hard like Tumblr if they really decide to ban all XXX.
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wolfsite: If you are looking for more revenue to help encourage more publishers to bring there games to GOG I do have a suggestion.

Discontinue Galaxy and turn it into a pure Downloader only program and make one of the open source game clients like Lutris, Heroic Game Launcher, Mini Galaxy, etc the official game clients for GOG. This would also benefit GOG as they wouldn't have to dump money into a Linux version.

If you can work a deal out with 9ne or more of these then you can keep the Galaxy API in games for users who enjoy the features, people can have there choice of client to use if they want to use one,

You could then use those funds towards getting new or classic games on GOG and move the people working on Galaxy to other issues such as ensuring offline installers are up to date and the publishers are keeping games here on parity with other stores.

Someone mentioned in another thread that the retro achievements site has there own API now so GOG could partner up with them to bring achievements to games missing them on GOG.

These are just suggestions to help focus revenue towards getting more games here but realistically Galaxy doesn't appear to be the hub for everyone's game library that was hoped it would be... especially with Linux slowly gaining popularity for gaming.
i agree with this. Galaxy seems like a failure to me. it tries to copy Steam, but Steam fanboys don't give a crap about good OLD games or removing DRM. they just want Steam to be like Netflicks, have almost all the games they want. those people might even be ok with a monthly subscription to play single player offline games!

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forgot to be on-topic:

personallly i'm fine seeing a "tip jar" on GOG even though i thought tipping is barbaric on principle... but well USA loves it! like i'm ok with the anime studio TRIGGER having a patreon, but that's more like a subscription and a way for their fans to interact with the animators/artists.

speaking for my wallet, no i won't tip. i would just buy more games if i had more money and time to play those games. and well, even though i thought the prices are reasonable, i am a working class guy who lives in one of the more expensive cities in the world. i am NOT richer than some middle class guy in Poland, but you charge me USA tier prices anyway because "regional pricing". i'm not getting richer as i grow older. in fact i definitely earn less than a janitor in USA. esp since i'm in "semi-retirement" due to bad health and another recession coming on. even ignoring my personal circumstances, our cops in this city used to earn less than a janitor in USA, back when GOG was new. back when i absolutely refused to use Steam due to DRM and its buggy crap client and installation files. so no. i will not tip. i cannot tip.

and that is all.
Post edited July 22, 2025 by dick1982