will there ever be an option to download all games I own? would be nice rather than downloading one by one.

Okay, Tim.

You have 429 games. No matter how you slice that, it's going to be at least 100 GB as installers alone.

To be fair - it would be a nice feature.

Your old PC crashes, you get a new one - set it all up.

End of the night, you come here - log in - hit download all - and let it go during the night while you sleep blissfully.

Do you mean all your games would be installed in Galaxy, or downloading the offline installers for your archives?

For downloading offline (backup) installers, there are third-party tools like gogrepo that do exactly that. So? You can get 2TB (or bigger) USB HDDs for a nickel and a dime.

I have over 2000 GOG game installers downloaded onto my 5TB and 2TB USB HDDs. (I currently have 2164 GOG games but I haven't run gogrepoc.py for awhile, for several months. I guess it would be time to refresh my collection at some point.)

I am not sure if you are thinking about a similar feature as the original poster.

I think he was requesting the ability to download ALL his games on his GOG account, for his personal archives or whatever.

You seem to be describing that a new fresh installation of the GOG Galaxy client would semi-automatically install and download all those games that you had downloaded and installed before on some other Galaxy client.

I don't use Galaxy but I assume the latter could be achieved by copying all the game files you installed on your first computer to the second computer, and then on the second PC just point Galaxy to import those games. Or something like that.

I think your best option at the moment is to use a download manager. You will have to visit each page and click each link, but the manager will queue them for you. Otherwise, someone will have to write a script...

That depends entirely on whether those are newer games, or good old games.

In either case, I don't see how much difference that is going to make. The same bandwidth and storage space is used regardless of whether he hits the download button once or 429 times. The only difference is the level of convenience.

And 100 GB is really not a lot. I would say that's quite a low number these days.
1 TB should be the absolute minimum for any reasonable storage space, and even that is so small that it will be painful.

yeah this. i should of been more clear.

While that is certainly one way, it ain't usually the best.

You could use either a gogrepo.py variant (which requires Python be installed) or the newer gogcli.exe program.

Of course, as you say, you need to write a script to run those ... or use a GUI. ;)

Yeah, that script was written already back in 2015.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gogrepopy_python_script_for_regularly_backing_up_your_purchased_gog_collection_for_full_offline_e/page1

(that 2015 version of the tool is not actively maintained anymore I think, and instead of it one should use the newer kalanyr-branch version of it) At least for me it is convenience, why I don't download them right away, if I've e.g. bought a dozen new games on a sale. I might be using my work laptop for the purchase and don't feel like downloading all the installers right away to the laptop, only to somehow transfer them to my main PC or the USB HDD where I keep my installers...

Also, since the games get updates all the time, you'd need to redownload most of them later anyway, several times even. So why the hurry, if you are not going to play them all right away anyway? The version in the 2015 message is not actively maintained anymore, I think? One should seek the kalanyr branch of that, and IMHO use the development version of that as it has more useful features.

“ At least for me it is convenience, why I don't download them right away, if I've e.g. bought a dozen new games on a sale. I might be using my work laptop for the purchase and don't feel like downloading all the installers right away to the laptop, only to somehow transfer them to my main PC or the USB HDD where I keep my installers...

Also, since the games get updates all the time, you'd need to redownload most of them later anyway, several times even. So why the hurry, if you are not going to play them all right away anyway?” - then use steam. No need to bother with downloading or updating at all until you need to play them, plus you get all the benefits of bigger library, cheaper prices etc. As for updates I have a lot here, and I just once every few months and download what I need, half the updates aren’t updates, just gog galaxifiying installers, and a fair few don’t need to be downloaded anyways.

“ The version in the 2015 message is not actively maintained anymore, I think? One should seek the kalanyr branch of that, and IMHO use the development version of that as it has more useful features.” - yeah, I don’t use it myself, like with most open source you will spend most of your time finding out which branch or fork you need and which set of distributables or software you need to get it going. Proactively downloading as you buy is the simplest way of proceeding.

Here I use LGOGDownloader. After an initial download of all my game installers, I have now set up a nightly task downloading the installers for the games marked as "updated" in my library.

With my current library (615 games) it takes ~1.7TB of storage space. I could probably save a bit of that by deleting old installers for games that have newer ones, but I have not automated this step yet.

In addition to LGOGDownloader for GOG games, I use similar tools for Humble Bundle and itch.io games, all of that set up to run unattended every night.

lgogdownloader is awesome, does everything you need it to do.

I can't even fathom what sort of masochist uses the browser based offline installers without 3rd party tools. Imagine clicking 12 times for each download link for a single game's offline installer. Mad men.

Too much work trying to track (and download) possible updates for over 2000 games... but to each his own.

But being open source has made it possible for other people to continue maintaining the tool so that it can still be used, when the original author has (apparently) abandoned the project.

If it had been closed source, then it wouldn't be usable today, unless someone else created a similar tool from scratch themselves.