DRM-Free and Censor-free games as evidenced by The Witcher

Some games are censored though:
http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/List_of_censored_games

Some games, like Fallout, have fan/community patches that render them, censor free.

The witcher, got "silent-censored", though... 1 had blind drinking + drinking minigame, 2 removed even alcohol entirely... 1 had drugs (fisstech), 2 had it removed, in 3 it is a not usable item... In 1 you could bang half the town, in 2 only 2-3 npcs most, with obligatory romance, even...

Be careful, censoring stuff is getting more and more cunning and deceitful, let alone harder to notice, where and when it can't be brutal and upfront anymore (because people will get angry and counter-nag from a different point). The witcher isn't what it used to be and thanks to no small part, in some idiotic no-lifers nagging about some of the more mature themes presented so graphically in 1!

"Democracy" is extending its tentacles more and more profoundly around art, lately, suppressing it (video games is a form of art, technically). When you have the censoring of art, then you can be pretty much certain, that *real* democracy is actually threatened, if not stealthily replaced by something other, very vile, imposing as it. Censoring of art is usually the first step leading to dictatorship, followed by censoring of media, silencing of any politically incorrect expressions and so on.

I honestly hope GOG won't fall prey to all that new age jazz, SJW cr@p, new customs and trends popping like mushrooms out of nowhere, lately. Censor-free is nice, thank you very much. DRM-free is indisputable and certainly, pretty much a breaking point. And i don't like region locks; i feel for those hindered by it, honestly (even if most of the people coming from a region-locked area, doesn't exactly like me, less alone sympathize).

Sometimes, censorship can be funny. For example, take a look at the bananas in Final Fantasy Legend 2, which are for some reason illegal in Edo and there's a whole plot about the banana trade. It is so much more interesting and funny than having the contraband be something like opium.

(Interestingly, Ultima 7 has an illegal drug that temporarily boosts your stats, but permanently lowers them when it wears off (though you can get around that by taking enough to trigger integer underflow).)

And morrowind has scooma. And Gothic 2 has... I forgot its name though, dang...

I think Oblivion handled Skooma better; instead of a temporary penalty, it actually causes long-term harm in the form of Intelligence damage. Of course, you can continue on forever at 0 Intelligence, so you can still abuse Skooma to beat the game in record time. (Also, I note that the damage can be healed, but it doesn't recover on its own.)

Imagine Oblivion Skooma with Arena/Daggerfall's "die when stat reaches 0" mechanic.

Avernum/Exile had a similar drug, Skribbane. Note HAD, as all interactions with it were removed in the remakes and instead meant to paint thugs as even loonier than normal.

Yes. (Or at least Escape from the Pit does; I haven't tried the sequel.)

Don't forget that you don't need to purchase the games to test them in WINE; just go to avernum.com and download the demo of the game you want to test, then try to run it in WINE.

Do you mean Avernum or Avernum: Subtitle?

Because they both work, as do the original titles. Giving Jeff credit where he's due, he packs a lot of game into a simple package.