Agreed. I feel like GOG really benefits from hosting free games and especially old ones. For starters, freebies help build goodwill among the user base since a lot of folks (myself included) tend to complain whenever weeks pass by without the release of a notable "good old game." Free games also drive new users to to the site since news outlets often generate buzz for GOG's service whenever there's something fun released for free (remember the giveaway for the old Fall Out games?). Finally, I think that hosting older games (and other notable freeware titles) could really help GOG set itself apart from other digital store fronts by developing a philosophy of preservation. There's tons of old games out there, so it would be great to gather them all up and put them in one place.

Besides, if we're not getting the newest AAA titles or some of the fun indie games considered too "niche," what the heck is GOG doing to really make itself different from Steam, Humble, or Origin? (inb4, DRM-free, blah blah blah)

Something I don't already own :D

Seriously though, I'd like to see the original King's Bounty here, and while I could see it being a freebie, it probably woulnd't be a standalone freebie, but more like ELder Scrolls I&II added to the new King's Bounty games.

Joke: Starbound.

Serious:Noctis IV.

I second this. Always wandered why it isn't a freebie here, since it's been declared as freeware for ages.

Biing! of course! https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/biing-series

As above, picked it up years ago free off a mag, would be great to get it free once again.

While I think it would be cool to have a few more games released here for free (a la Bio Menace), I wouldn't mind it all that much if companies saw fit to bundle their older games together with their newer counterparts. In fact, that's the reason why the Bard's Tale landed on my wishlist. It's pretty cool knowing that I can pick up the entire series in one go!

Darvond, your distaste for Starbound always makes me laugh. I say that with the full realization that I got swept up in the game's hype during its release and paid full price for it. I've been disappointed with myself ever since :P

Actually, Humble has quite a few games DRM-Free, including ones that GOG in it's wisdom rejected, so even that angle isn't what it's cracked up to be :P

I second this, specially keeping in account That GoG already have Tyrian, and add to the whist list the free C&C games.

I'm all for not getting any more freebies if it somehow led to more oldies being released.

Having said that, a realistic candidate for the next freebie would be a 3D Realms game:

Alien Carnage
Arctic Adventure
Major Stryker
Monuments of Mars
Pharaoh's Tomb

I read about it in a mag and years later tried itt.
I still play it. The Suffering
Rise and Fall Civilizations at War

You can legally download the complete game for free.

BTW, I have the CD of it, complete with thick booklet in mint condition.

I don't know why, but I've never actually installed and played it.

This.

you want it too, i know :P

Does it have to be an existing game on GOG? How about Entombed Enhanced?

You should play it, the controls can be a pita but other than that it's still good.
Cheers, had know idea it was still avaliable for free.