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Hello again everyone, as much as it pains me to say it, I have some saddening news to share:

27 titles from Meridian4 will leave our store on September 20th, 1 PM UTC. I can't share any more details about it.

List of affected games:
Boom Blaster - https://www.gog.com/en/game/boom_blaster
Boss Rush Bundle - https://www.gog.com/en/game/boss_rush_bundle
Bucket Knight - https://www.gog.com/en/game/bucket_knight
Creepy Tale 3 - https://www.gog.com/en/game/creepy_tale_3_ingrid_penance
Edge of Galaxy - https://www.gog.com/en/game/edge_of_galaxy
Full Moon Rush - https://www.gog.com/en/game/full_moon_rush
Ghost Blood - https://www.gog.com/en/game/ghost_blood
Ghoul Castle - https://www.gog.com/en/game/ghoul_castle
Hero Survival - https://www.gog.com/en/game/hero_survival
Heroines - https://www.gog.com/en/game/heroines_of_swords_spells
Judas - https://www.gog.com/en/game/judas
Kill Fish - https://www.gog.com/en/game/kill_fish
Oxygen Cocktail - https://www.gog.com/en/game/oxygen_cocktail
Picklock - https://www.gog.com/en/game/picklock
Probo Rush - https://www.gog.com/en/game/probo_rush
Red Dust - https://www.gog.com/en/game/red_dust
Replikator - https://www.gog.com/en/game/replikator
Starless - https://www.gog.com/en/game/starless
Strike Force Kitty - https://www.gog.com/en/game/strikeforce_kitty
The Dark Prophecy - https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_dark_prophecy
The Wizard And The Slug - https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_wizard_and_the_slug
Ultragoodness - https://www.gog.com/en/game/ultragoodness
Ultragoodness 2 - https://www.gog.com/en/game/ultragoodness_2
Ultragoodness Bundle - https://www.gog.com/en/game/ultragoodness_franchise_bundle
Viruz - https://www.gog.com/en/game/viruz
Warforwards - https://www.gog.com/en/game/warforwards
Witchcrafty - https://www.gog.com/en/game/witchcrafty

I know you hate to hear that. The same goes for us.
Well, that's a huge number of games. And even if most of them are mediocre at best, I'm quite sad to see them go.
Honestly: of all these 27 titles, only one (The Dark Prophecy - https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_dark_prophecy) looks interesting to me.
And that one is still a little too high priced (imho) to take the jump.

shrug
Now that's a huge number of titles all at once! What made that publisher so upset with GOG?
And what about their remaining titles?

As for the 27, two seemed mildly interesting, maybe. But maybe just one.
Sad.... Thankfully I own them all already.
Cleaning the house, eh?

Most of this games are just shovelware, while for others i don't care at all. Either way, i didn't know they existed and they most certainly won't be missed!
Honestly, I wonder if anyone would notice if these disappeared without announcement. I didn't even notice when they appeared :P
Post edited September 18, 2024 by ssling
Any chance of a discount before they go?

Looking at the reviews this game catalogue wasn't very well received by it's players.
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king_kunat: I can't share any more details about it.
Looks to me as if all (?) these games were developed by Russians.

BigBread
Silkworm
PidgeonDev
Creepy Brothers
Kinderril
Stephan Vakhtin
Kirlillkrm
Studio48
Mikheev Denis
Anton Pushkarev
Mukorka
R_Games
Petr Sapozhnikov
Start Warp
Rasul Mono
Roman Pak
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king_kunat: I can't share any more details about it.
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BreOl72: Looks to me as if all (?) these games were developed by Russians.

BigBread
Silkworm
PidgeonDev
Creepy Brothers
Kinderril
Stephan Vakhtin
Kirlillkrm
Studio48
Mikheev Denis
Anton Pushkarev
Mukorka
R_Games
Petr Sapozhnikov
Start Warp
Rasul Mono
Roman Pak
Oh, that might make sense then, and explain why it's so many but not all titles.
I wonder if these games will disappear from the other store. Would make sense if the publisher cut all ties with Russian devs.
This may be a hot take, but I am all for delisting subpar games, if it means more resources dedicated to higher quality ones. This does not mean I only want AAA, big name games, but there are plenty of other, better indie titles that are missing from GOG.
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BreOl72: Looks to me as if all (?) these games were developed by Russians.
AFAIK Silkworm is swedish...
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Cavalary: Now that's a huge number of titles all at once! What made that publisher so upset with GOG?
And what about their remaining titles?

As for the 27, two seemed mildly interesting, maybe. But maybe just one.
For some time on Steam Meridian4 had been losing games it had originally published, which were passing to the developers themselves. This led to several delistings on GOG, some never officially announced. At the same time it stopped publishing new games.

I assume that all the delisting in this announcement are all games passing to the respective developers. How this relates to the fact that they are Russian or whether it's Meridian4 slowly closing its doors, I don't know.
Heroines of swords and spells. While i haven't played it much this means that a sequel won't appear i think.
Post edited September 18, 2024 by Fonzer