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While it still has plenty of work ahead of it, Comet is a very promising project to bring the full power of GOG Galaxy over to Linux without needing to run their client in Wine. Note: this is a community project, not from GOG themselves.

The first tagged release version 0.1.0 is out now bringing with it "all necessary SDK calls", allowing you to blast through GOG games and properly earn 100% of the achievements on Linux too. All without having to actually use GOG Galaxy. The whole point of Comet is to provide a platform-agnostic SDK, so it can be used in launchers like Heroic, Lutris and others.

Some of what they wish to do in future versions includes:

  • Bring native comet support in Lutris and Heroic (have an option to toggle comet for games or globally without any manual effort).
  • Support official overlay on Mac and Windows. #17
  • Support overlay on Linux for Windows games.
  • Create decky loader plugin to display invites and achievements as you unlock them. #18

See more on the GitHub.

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Raaben Jul 11
I'm glad there's people working on this at least, though I still wish GoG themselves would work to make their client official... I prefer them philosophically to Steam but Steam usually wins me by sheer convenience.
tpau Jul 11
GoG endorsed Heroic Launcher in their Reddit posts and they gave the Heroic Team an affiliate link, so this is rather close to an "official" client


Last edited by tpau on 11 July 2024 at 6:31 pm UTC
Raaben Jul 11
Quoting: tpauGoG endorsed Heroic Launcher in their Reddit posts and they gave the Heroic Team an affiliate link, so this is rather close to an "official" client

Never knew that, not bad. Still wish they had Galaxy working instead but Heroic generally does the job at the level I need it to.
tpau Jul 11
Quoting: RaabenStill wish they had Galaxy working instead but Heroic generally does the job at the level I need it to.
Is there anything you need missing apart from the fact that it doesn't use the wrapper plugins for other stores like Rockstar or Ubi and has a strict focus on reversed backends?
Raaben Jul 11
Quoting: tpauIs there anything you need missing apart from the fact that it doesn't use the wrapper plugins for other stores like Rockstar or Ubi and has a strict focus on reversed backends?

I'd more just like to seem them put some support behind Linux themselves, that's a big point in Steam's favor to me and a reason I buy from there more often. For me, Heroic has all I need; I don't use any launcher for more than downloading and playing.
cybik Jul 11
A moment of gloating.

Indivisible worked with it with no issue whatsoever.

I'm pretty happy with myself for that one.
Linux_Rocks Jul 11
slavezeo Jul 12
Maybe it's just me but I don't like the GOG Galaxy client. The social stuff is a mess and all over the place with all the platforms it supports. Same with games, I don't care that I can play a game on my xbox. I just wanting to see my GoG games on my Linux box. SO I'm not really hurt its not native for linux. I do love heroic though.
CatKiller Jul 12
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GOG's Linux-hostility means that I last gave them money in... 2017, and I have no intention of giving them more in the future. It's good to have tools to stop people's GOG libraries keeping them locked into Windows, though.
CatKiller Jul 12
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Quoting: tpauGoG endorsed Heroic Launcher in their Reddit posts and they gave the Heroic Team an affiliate link, so this is rather close to an "official" client

That's less than Epic did; they gave Lutris a token amount of cash. And no one would consider Lutris to be anything like an official Epic client.


Last edited by CatKiller on 12 July 2024 at 3:59 am UTC
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