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Posted October 16, 2018
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DebbieL: Recently: Vigilantes. Dev confirmed this but didn't give a specific reason, apart from 'GOG is very picky'.
Mmmm steam reviews are mostly good, though.
Posted October 16, 2018
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Breath Of Death VII: The Beginning
Cthulhu Saves The World
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness 3+4
Robert Boyd from Zeboyd Games on the NeoGAF forums: "Our best selling game has something like half a million owners on Steam. We released it on a few other stores (not GOG because they turned us down) and sold only a tiny fraction of that AND it's a pain to keep those versions updated AND it's a pain to actually get paid from those stores (Steam automatically pays us every month; the other places require us to submit official invoices whenever we want to get paid and you have to exceed a certain minimum which is hard to meet since sales are so low). It's just not worth all the extra effort to increase sales by such a tiny amount."
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/breath_of_death_vii_the_beginning
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/cthulhu_saves_the_world
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/on_the_rainslick_precipice_of_darkness_3
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/on_the_rainslick_precipice_of_darkness_4
Post edited October 16, 2018 by Barry_Woodward
Posted October 16, 2018
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Barry_Woodward: Breath Of Death VII: The Beginning
Cthulhu Saves The World
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness 3+4
Robert Boyd from Zeboyd Games on the NeoGAF forums: "Our best selling game has something like half a million owners on Steam. We released it on a few other stores (not GOG because they turned us down) and sold only a tiny fraction of that AND it's a pain to keep those versions updated AND it's a pain to actually get paid from those stores (Steam automatically pays us every month; the other places require us to submit official invoices whenever we want to get paid and you have to exceed a certain minimum which is hard to meet since sales are so low). It's just not worth all the extra effort to increase sales by such a tiny amount."
More and more it seems like the fault of some games not being released here is on gog. Other issues as well. :/
Post edited October 16, 2018 by Lucian_Galca
Posted October 16, 2018
Drifting Lands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1C3UjQ0MzU

A mix between Hack'n Slash and a Shoot'em Up, dev said GOG refused them on their store. Which is a shame, it's a very good game, with good reviews. There is a demo on Steam.

"Sorry no GOG version. After a month of waiting, we've finally been refused on the store." From Krobill, on Steam forums.
Post edited October 16, 2018 by Exhodos
Posted October 16, 2018
As long as we are listing good games getting rejected:

GemCraft: Chasing Shadows

https://store.steampowered.com/app/296490/GemCraft__Chasing_Shadows/
Posted October 16, 2018
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Here's the list so far. Please vote!

40 Winks
>Steam

7 Mages
>Steam

Alpha Polaris
>Steam

AR-K
>Steam

AR-K: The Great Escape
>Steam

Aurion: Legacy Of The Kori-Odan
>Steam

Bible Adventures
>Steam

The Binding Of Isaac
>Steam

The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth
>Steam

Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King
>Steam

Bolt Riley: A Reggae Adventure
>Steam

Breath Of Death VII: The Beginning
>Steam

Bubble Ghost
>Steam

Call Of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
>Steam

Central Intelligence
>Steam

Chamber Of The Sci-Mutant Priestess
>Steam

Chaos Control
>Steam

Cranks And Goggles
>Steam

Crystal Story II
>Steam

Cthulhu Saves The World
>Steam

Curses 'N Chaos
>Steam

Daemonsgate
>Steam

Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True (MacVenture Series)
>Steam

Deja Vu II: Lost In Las Vegas (MacVenture Series)
>Steam

Dorke And Ymp
>Steam

Drifting Lands
>Steam

ELF
>Steam

Eternam
>Steam

Exodus
>Steam

Flinthook
>Steam

GemCraft: Chasing Shadows
>Steam

The Great Escape
>Steam

Hatred
>Steam

Her Majesty's SPIFFING
>Steam

Heroine's Quest: The Herald Of Ragnarok
>Steam

Hostage: Rescue Mission
>Steam

Iron Commando: Koutetsu No Senshi
>Steam

Jim Power: The Lost Dimension
>Steam

Joshua And The Battle Of Jericho
>Steam

King's Table: The Legend Of Ragnarok
>Steam

Kuso
>Steam

Last Rites
>Steam

Legend (1994)
>Steam

Love
>Steam

Marco Polo
>Steam

Mercenary Kings
>Steam

Mystical
>Steam

Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy!
>Steam

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet!
>Steam

Nimbus
>Steam

Ninja Senki DX
>Steam

One Finger Death Punch
>Steam

Penny Arcade's On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness 3
>Steam

Penny Arcade's On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness 4
>Steam
Post edited October 17, 2018 by Barry_Woodward
Posted October 16, 2018
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Hello everybody.

My indie-game platformer Deep Ones, inspired by ZX Spectrum aesthetic, Bioshock underwater beauty and H.P. Lovecraft was rejected too, because "too niche".
Guys from GOG don't even play the game - just watch some screenshots and trailer, wich I send to him. Answer was like "look like a cool hardcore platformer, but no, too niche for GOG"

Yeah, too niche game. Wich looks like realy old platformer. For site called Good OLD Games. Why it's "niche"? Who knows.

I've tried re-submit after release on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation Vita and XBOX One, but has no answer at all. lol
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Post edited October 16, 2018 by licht61
Posted October 16, 2018
Continued

Prophecy: The Viking Child
>Steam

Pushover
>Steam

Quarantine Circular
>Steam

The Quest
>Steam

Rex Rocket
>Steam

Shadowgate (MacVenture Series)
>Steam

Sleepwalker
>Steam

Snakebird
>Steam

Speedy Eggbert (a.k.a. Speedy Blupi)
>>Wikipedia

Speedy Eggbert 2 (a.k.a. Speedy Blupi 2)
>>Wikipedia

Spiritual Warfare
>Steam

The St. Christopher's School Lockdown
>Steam

Subsurface Circular
>Steam

Super 3-D Noah's Ark
>Steam

Superbrothers: Sword And Sworcery EP
>Steam

Thomas Was Alone
>Steam

Time Gate: Knight's Chase
>Steam

Tokyo Dark
>Steam

Traum
>Steam

Tunnel B1
>Steam

The Uncertain: Episode 1 - The Last Quiet Day
>Steam

The Uncertain: Episode 2 - Light At The End
>Steam

The Uninvited (MacVenture Series)
>Steam

Vigilantes
>Steam

Volume
>Steam

Warbanners
>Steam

Where Time Stood Still
>Steam

Wizorb
>Steam

Games whose developers/publishers aren't interested in releasing on GOG:

Hidden Folks
>Steam

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licht61: Hello everybody.

My indie-game platformer Deep Ones, inspired by ZX Spectrum aesthetic, Bioshock underwater beauty and H.P. Lovecraft was rejected too, because "too niche".
Guys from GOG don't even play the game - just watch some screenshots and trailer, wich I send to him. Answer was like "look like a cool hardcore platformer, but no, too niche for GOG"

Yeah, too niche game. Wich looks like realy old platformer. For site called Good OLD Games. Why it's "niche"? Who knows.
I've tried re-submit after release on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation Vita and XBOX One, but has no answer at all. lol
I made a wishlist entry for you:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/deep_ones
Post edited October 16, 2018 by Barry_Woodward
Posted October 16, 2018
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Barry_Woodward: I made a wishlist entry for you:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/deep_ones
Have you checked the game or you automatically created this entry without any search ?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/696730/Deep_Ones/
Posted October 16, 2018
Many of these turndowns described here cause a lot of questions since games like Project Warlock started to show up on the storefront.

It's obviously unpolished (according to pretty high system requirements for project of this kind) and basically not much different from lots of similar pseudo-old-school FPS from Steam Greenlight / Steam Direct.

What makes it so special? Fancy namedropping in the description?
Posted October 16, 2018
Kelvin and the Infamous Machine

Source: Kickstarter for Kelvin and the Infamous Machine

"We are evaluating GOG, but of course they'll have to approve the game, and it may take a while. We'll let you know if there are any news on it."

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blyts/kelvin-and-the-infamous-machine/comments


That comment was posted two years ago, and the game hasn't come to GOG, so it has most likely been rejected.
Out all game rejections, this is one of the biggest disappointments for me personally, as it's a hilarious time-travelling comedy, very much in the same genre as Day of the Tentacle.
Posted October 16, 2018
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Ghorpm:
It's a great single party tile-based dungeon crawl. Controls are very simple and almost everything can be done with a mouse.

Quest choices are not immediately clear/slightly morally ambiguous.
Combat is turn-based with a variety of spells and weapons (that have durability). The beginning of the game is tough because of resource management, but difficulty swaps toward the end.

There is one official expansion: Islands of Ice and Fire which ups the difficulty and has a nice little story.
There are also maybe 5 or 6 unofficial expansion modules that have finally been ported to PC. They are on the crazy hard side of things so I haven't been able to get much in to them.

My only complaint would be that some of the movement speed can be slow.
Posted October 16, 2018
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licht61: Guys from GOG don't even play the game - just watch some screenshots and trailer, wich I send to him. Answer was like "look like a cool hardcore platformer, but no, too niche for GOG"
Thanks for this confirmation (you probably didn't do your game any favors by dropping this little bombshell here, but I sincerely appreciate the honesty)! Gog has refused quite a few games that look like shit but play great, while letting in shit games that look ok, so I was already suspecting them of making their decisions based purely on screenshots, promo blurb and maybe a youtube video.

Curated store, my ass! This is not curation, it's arbitrary bullshit.
Posted October 16, 2018
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fronzelneekburm: (you probably didn't do your game any favors by dropping this little bombshell here, but I sincerely appreciate the honesty)
Since this game is already released on almost every actual platform, I don't think that developer will be upset if it never shows up here. It's missed opportunity for GOG, not for developer.
Posted October 16, 2018
Didn't GOG even refuse to sell Braid, World of Goo and Aquaria at some point due to the expected price?
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