GOG have announced some bad news across two separate announcements, with a total of 29 games that are going to be delisted this month. This means you'll still be able to download them if you own them, but no new purchases on any of them.
The first is from Adult Swim with these games vanishing from GOG on September 30th (time TBC):
GOG said they will "do our best to try and bring them back".
The bigger list comes from Meridian4 where 27 titles will be gone on September 20th at 1PM UTC:
- Boom Blaster
- Boss Rush Bundle
- Bucket Knight
- Creepy Tale 3
- Edge of Galaxy
- Full Moon Rush
- Ghost Blood
- Ghoul Castle
- Hero Survival
- Heroines
- Judas
- Kill Fish
- Oxygen Cocktail
- Picklock
- Probo Rush
- Red Dust
- Replikator
- Starless
- Strike Force Kitty
- The Dark Prophecy
- The Wizard And The Slug
- Ultragoodness
- Ultragoodness 2
- Ultragoodness Bundle
- Viruz
- Warforwards
- Witchcrafty
Two of those are bundles of the other games. The article originally said it was 31 in total so updated to correct.
For all of those GOG simply said "I can't share any more details about it". That's a pretty abrupt delisting too for the Meridian4 titles, giving only a couple of days notice.
If you've been on the fence about wanting to pick up any of those from GOG, now is the time.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Cyba.Cowboy Sep 18
There was a time they actively pushed for new Linux titles, too... But now, most of their Linux stuff is "shovelware" and there is a HUGE list of games that have a Linux version elsewhere, but not on GOG.com.
I've not seen it myself, but apparently some of their titles even have DRM these days - which is in stark contrast to one of the early goals of GOG.com (the other big one being "old" games, which they sort-of adhere to still).
dziadulewicz Sep 18
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_gog_galaxy_20_for_linux
Quoting: GBGamesFirst Oxenfree, now these games. Is there something going on?Sounds like these companies aren't happy with whatever sales they're getting on GOG and probably decided to delist the games but if GOG are willing to work with a company like Adult Swim to bring it back in the future, then they're might be a slim chance of making it happen like Alpha Protocol.
Quoting: GBGamesFirst Oxenfree, now these games. Is there something going on?Oxenfree was itch.io, not GOG.
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slaapliedje Sep 18
Quoting: dziadulewiczMaybe one day they start consider potential Linux customers first class customers and release the official client. Never bought anything from GOG during all these years because obviously they don't need our monys. And there is always Collection Chamber.
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_gog_galaxy_20_for_linux
This is my feeling toward them as well. If they can't even release a linux client after ALL this time, they clearly don't care about us at all.
Cyba.Cowboy Sep 18
They made this BIG song and dance about how they were going to be these HUGE supporters of Linux going forwards... But it didn't last long and now, most of their Linux games are plain old "shovelware", with many of the games available for Linux elsewhere completely missing from GOG.com.
Heck, I've even got a number of games in my library that were released for Linux on GOG.com, only for GOG.com to remove the option to buy the Linux version later on (sometimes I don't even get the option to re-download the Linux version anymore - but thankfully, I have backup copies of all my GOG.com games on a storage drive).
I have plenty of gripes with Valve Software - but at least they have proactively continued to work towards advancing the cause for Linux gamers since they started offering Official Linux support... Which is not something that can be said of GOG.com, who seemingly became bored of Linux gaming after five minutes.
Last edited by Cyba.Cowboy on 18 September 2024 at 2:42 pm UTC
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