I want to buy more from GOG but my only gaming system I have is a Steam Deck. I know the native Linux stuff should work ok but u always have problems getting windows stuff to work. Either through Heroic Launcher or Proton. I must be doing something wrong. All the guides I find are just wrong or out of date.
Hei give this a try, it helped me a lot for a gog game at least (Tunic). https://github.com/moraroy/NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck
Make heroic add to Steam lib by default
If that dont work then idk
I love this from GOG. I already liked them because of their game conservation efforts, but now I like them even more.
They support free games. If only they supported free platforms to play them on…
What does this mean?
It means they have zero Linux support.
Only their Galaxy client, because any games with native linux support has the proper installer files. They don’t go out of their way to ensure windows only games also work on linux
The Linux version of X4 took over a week longer to update on GoG than Steam for the 7.00 update.
They literally say they support Ubuntu… https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212456929-General-questions?product=gog
They’ve always distributed Linux versions for games that have them an those are the ones which pop-up by default on the game’s downloads pages if you’re browsing their site from Linux, so it’s not as if they don’t support Linux.
What you mean is that they haven’t created their own Linux distro and Wine fork like Steam.
Meanwhile because they ship DRM-free games with offline installers they’re actually closer to the spirit of Linux than Steam: you have full control over how you run a game you got for them (for example, I try to run all games sandboxed with networking restricted to localhost only plus a number of other safety limitations, which I can do with GOG games launched from Lutris but not with Steam games).
As I see it Steam does a lot of handholding (both in Windows and Linux) in exchange for them retaining a ton of control over your gaming, whilst GOG just gives you maximum freedom but with zero handholding.
Maybe because I’ve been a Techie and Gamer since the 90s, personally I vastly prefer the later approach but I can see how people who grew up in the hand-holding era of computing would value convenience over control.
Zero is a bit harsh, I bought some games with Linux launchers on GoG.
Yeah, its a little better than zero but it isn’t great.
Not sure what this means, I’m playing mine on Linux just fine.
You being able to play it on linux is not the same thing as having Linux support. They don’t even have a first-party launcher. Probably half the games I buy on GOG don’t even launch, even after adding them to Steam. Meanwhile Steam works literally 100% of the time, in my experience.
Try running the GOG games from Lutris instead of Steam (I also heard good things about Heroic Launcher, but haven’t tried it).
Obviously for GOG games Steam isn’t going to have the scripts that properly configure Proton and if you try and run the games directly with Wine yourself you get none of the modern conveniences in things like Steam, Lutris or the Heroic Launcher and have to actually learn the “old ways” of going through the log when game fails to launch, figure out the missing DLLs and which packages they’re in and adding those yourself to the Wine instance you’re using for that game with Winetricks.
GOG’s support for Linux starts and ends at distributing the Linux installers for games which have Linux versions, exposing a REST API to their service that lets any app integrate with it - which is how Lutris and Heroic Launcher can download the game installers directly from GOG - and making sure the games are DRM free (which in my experience makes it more likely that GOG games work under Linux than Steam games: I’ve had to actually download and run pirated versions of Steam games for them to actually work in Linux but never had that problem with GOG games).
Steam on the other hand will do pretty much everything for you, directly from their all-in-one storefront+launcher app, exposing very little of the inner workings to you, but the tradeoff is that you’re tied to their ecosystem and don’t tend to learn how to do things yourself.
I think they’re saying GOG doesn’t support Linux?
I couldn’t pass their capcha so I guess I’m a robot.
VPN to the UK.
Self-awareness is the first step to sentience.
I cant get by their 2fa. It sends the code like 4 hours later which by then the code times out.
I also got like 10 capchas for 1 of the codes (just one after the other) then it threw an error anyway. I appreciate their gesture, but so far it’s been like 30 minutes of wasted time with nothing to show for it.
Some countries banned Postal 2 so they can’t give it to you if you live in, as a random example, Germany.
Congratulations on already living in the future they’re protesting. Realistically they probably should have recognized this would be a problem and told you the specific error but their giveaway codes aren’t really meant for this so whatever.
If you do live in a country like that you could, however, spend $70 on a year of Mullvad and be a Canadian as far as GOG knows or cares.
Maybe you should be doing that anyways, regardless of whether you want horny games and also Postal 2.
Same, tried three different browsers. I HOPE YOU’RE ALRIGHT, FELLOW “HUMAN”.
And maybe ten of them will actually play any of the games.
Oh yeah I saw the list and am pretty sure I’m not even installing any of them, but claiming the bundle in solidarity
Y-yea… For solidarity
Did the same. Not sure, just by looking at the icon/thumbnail, that any of it was made for me. But am still proud to have them added to my account!
Apparently some of them are very good in their own right, telling a compelling and interesting story and not just being horny cash-grabs so I’m tempted to give them a shot.
I played the original Yu-No because of how it is the foundation upon which all modern visual novel games are built. That was a difficult experience and I do not recommend it to anyone not already very interested in the history of the genre, there is a lot of content there that is not for me.
But that was the game that made the industry say “oh shit, these things can be good, too”.Side-note: the modern rerelease of Yu-No has the more objectionable stuff stripped out, but then we’ve got to have the censorship discussion all over again.
Anyway. My point is this: I have also overlooked these games but might have to rethink that.
I’m one. I played one of the ones I didn’t already have yesterday.
How did it go?
HTH does work on Linux.
High Tail Hall?
Ya, looking over the list I couldn’t be bothered to obtain a copy of “Helping The Hotties”.
Really? You’d leave the hotties unhelped?
Hey, everyone, OP hates hotties and thinks they should stay unhelped!
I didn’t see the option, but also Huney Pop and others don’t work on Linux.
Works fine on my Steam Deck.
Can you just add them as nonsteam games?
Where do you install them to?I used Heroic Games Launcher and added it as a non-Steam game.
Lutris is very likely your friend here
Can confirm it works fine with wine / proton
Lutris?
The linux version of Hunie Pop didn’t launch for me on Fedora 42, but the Windows version did with Heroic using GE-Proton-Latest
You’re doing gods work, GOG. No wait, scratch that.
Slaanesh is proud
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If only GOG was this militant when it involved Taiwanese developers (Red Candle Game devs), I would still be using their platform. They haven’t even allowed Nine Sols on it, so I haven’t bothered going back yet or have even recommended them to the degree I usually did over Steam.
It’s not even that they had to censor themselves, it’s their woeful attempt at an excuse. It’s funny whom they kneel before and whom the are activists against. Were it a China “Many Gamers” matter, do not expect them to have been as willing…
Do you have a link to someone talking about the Taiwan situation?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gog+red+candle+games&ia=news&iar=news
It has a lot to do with how it would have affected Cyberpunk 2077’s release in China and it’s huge gaming market. I mean, just look at the downvote count in my previous comment, there are a lot of butthurt factory trolls downvoting it from the red stained Lemmy “Marxist Leninist” foundries. China cannot accept any political commentary, specially coming from Taiwan, and the devs got punished for it. The devs capitulated, but China did not care, so why bother?
