Following its win in the second GOG Patron Vote, Nox officially joins the GOG Preservation Program. After weeks of work from GOG's reverse engineering team, Westwood Studios' action-RPG classic is ready to play on modern PCs again, with a host of compatibility fixes and quality-of-life improvements!
This release strips out the outdated compatibility shim entirely, closing off a recurring source of conflicts on its own. Separately, it adds the GOG DXWrapper, so Nox can actually display properly on modern machines. It also adds a custom widescreen resolution, selectable directly from the game's options menu. The original installer used to tell a bit of Nox's lore partway through setup – we've archived that segment as a downloadable video, available in the Goodies section (not the full installer, just this piece of it). We've validated stability and verified compatibility with both Windows 10 and 11.
One of the biggest additions comes from bringing back a feature many assumed was gone for good, allowing for online multiplayer through XWIS.net servers. Previous GOG releases never included Westwood Online Service (WOL) support in the first place, so there was nothing on our end to make that connection happen. With WOL dependencies restored, along with the correct registry entries, the GOG version of Nox can now actually reach XWIS.net, ready for a new generation of players to duel it out.
The completion of Nox also marks the end of the second Patron Vote – and the beginning of the third. Starting today, GOG Patrons can vote for another classic to join the program. The new candidates are Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, The 11th Hour, Harvester, Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet, and The Legacy: Realm of Terror.
Learn more about the GOG Preservation Program, become a GOG Patron, and help us make games live forever by voting for the next preserved classic today!