GOG have announced that the incredibly popular open-world game Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is set for release on March 28th. So if you prefer to get your games from GOG, your patience will be rewarded.
Thankfully it's easy to get GOG games on Linux / Steam Deck thanks to the likes of the Heroic Games Launcher, which had a big upgrade recently too.
Pictured - Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
GOG are also running a PLAION publisher sale (they own DeepSilver who publish KC:D II). So you can get some other games pretty cheap right now too including:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance - 75% off
Metro 2033 Redux - 85% off
Metro Exodus - 75% off
Nobody Wants To Die - 40% off
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected - 75% off
System Shock - 63% off
Road 96 - 75% off
Plus some new to GOG releases from Prime Matter (which PLAION also own):
Gungrave G.O.R.E - 84% off
+ various DLC is also up
Bears In Space - 50% off
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I bought it on steam and its been amazing. Runs great without any frametime stutters or anything. No stability issues either.
90 hours played so far. Its a blast
From what I hear the 2nd installment is in a much better shape on release than the first (not that I ran into many problems back then), but is more of the same otherwise. Much more, actually :-). Yay!
I recently thought I'd start buying there in order to download and archive the offline installers and using Heroic to download the games for actually playing them.
However, Valve is much more friendly to Linux (and probably the biggest reason that Linux gaming is as good as it is now), cloud saves works better than Heroic and, well, the Steam interface is just better in so many ways. In fact, I don't think we're going to see an official GoG client on Linux.
So, now I'm second-guessing my decision and might just go back to primarily buying everything on Steam.
How do you guys feel about buying on GoG instead of Steam?
I always buy on GOG to encourage DRM-free gaming.
Caldathras 3 hours ago
Let's see. In addition to Heroic Games Launcher and Lutris, there is also the Minigalaxy GOG client. Read here:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/simple-gog-client-for-linux-minigalaxy-v1-3-2-released-with-improved-game-installs/
The community has provided what GOG has not. Why does the client have to be official? Frankly, I think the community solutions do a better job than the official ones.
Personally, I favour GOG because they give me the ability to download offline installers. I like being able to keep a personal archive of my game installers. I also like not having to depend on the Steam client (or GOG Galaxy, for that matter) in order to install my games.
It's not one or the other, you know. I do still buy games on Steam. Sometimes, Steam will have a native Linux version that isn't available on GOG. I just tend to favour GOG if the game is available on both platforms. Like @Shmerl, I also want to show my support for DRM-free gaming.
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