GOG.com

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GOG.com is a website which sells PC video games and movies. They used to be called Good Old Games, because that's what they started out selling: beloved classics from various studios' back catalogs. They now sell games that aren't so old, and movies as well (though their movie catalog is heavily game-oriented, including The Gamers and the like), hence the name change. They're known for not including any DRM or Region Coding in any of their downloads.

GoG was founded sometime in February 22, 2008, by Marcin Iwiṅski and Michal Kiciṅski after when they founded CD Projekt.

Sometime in March 2012, GOG began selling more recent games, like Alan Wake and the Metro series. This is part of them branching out and opening their store to both AAA and indie video game companies.

October 2012, GOG.com announced that they'll bring their DRM-free games to OS X, Linux, and Mac. Also, gathering feedback from their user wishlist and the most demand features, like the native support for Linux games, which is voted by their customers. These features were added as well as support for the Linux and Ubuntu in during the fall of 2014.

In August 27, 2014, GOG added DRM-free movie distribution to their service.

GOG.com provides examples of the following tropes:
  • Allegedly Free Game: Some of the games that are in GOG are these.
  • The Artifact: GoG's Tumblr blog is this.
  • Artifact Title:
    • In March 2012, Good Old Games changed their name to GOG.com and announced that they would feature "AAA new and newer titles" in their store.
    • When GOG, along with Steam, began to sell films (recent ones too).
  • Ascended Extra: In a Divinity: Original Sin 2 contest, fans voted for Eithne, to represent GoG out of all the other heroes.
  • Avengers Assemble: The Galaxy 2.0 is aiming to not just be a launcher, but also a uniter of all the other clients to be in one, like Origin, Uplay, Steam, and even including console clients, like the Playstation Network.
  • Digital Avatar: Gamers can customize their profiles.
  • Digital Distribution
  • DRM: Defied -- no DRM to be found anywhere, on any of their downloads.
  • Expy: Of Blizzard Battle.Net.
  • Indie Games: Just like Steam, GOG has a huge ever growing library of indie games in their store.
  • Moe Anthropomorphism: Meet GOG-Chan, except she's only going to be just for the 2018 Summer week sale.
  • No Export for You: Defied. (Region-coding usually isn't done with PC video games, but movie disks and disk players are, so this is more notable for their movie selections.)
    • Played straight with certain old video games, they can only be found in GOG. Mainly because the console and/or the original software were said game made their debut are now gone.
    • GOG was planning to make a Linux version of their client down the line, but for the time being there's no Linux version. That all changed when the GOG Galaxy came.
  • Obvious Beta: Some of GOG's upcoming features go through this phase, like during October 2014's multiplayer mode was going though this.
    • The Galaxy 2.0.
  • Online Alias
  • Retro Gaming: Some of GoG's library are these.
    • Inverted. Some of the current games only have this style, but they're release recently.


Games and Series for Download from GoG.com Include:


Movies Found in the GoG Store Include:


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