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Posted August 19, 2014
50 games for the free OS available right NOW!

A while ago, [url=http://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_soon_on_more_platforms]we've announced our plans to add Linux support as one of the features of our digital platform, with 100 games on the launch day sometime this fall. We've put much time and effort into this project and now we've found ourselves with over 50 titles, classic and new, prepared for distribution, site infrastructure ready, support team trained and standing by, and absolutely no reason to wait until October or November. We're still aiming to have at least 100 Linux games in the coming months, but we've decided not to delay the launch just for the sake of having a nice-looking number to show off to the press. It's not about them, after all, it's about you. So, one of the most popular site feature requests on our community wishlist is granted today: Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!

The first 50+ titles we've have in store for you come from all the corners of our DRM-Free catalog. Note that we've got many classic titles coming officially to Linux for the very first time, thanks to the custom builds prepared by our dedicated team of penguin tamers. That's over twenty fan-favorite GOG.com classics, like &[url=http://www.gog.com/game/flatout_2]Flatout 2, , <a href="http://www.gog.com/game/darklands">Darklands, or Realms of the Haunting we've personally ushered one by one into the welcoming embrace of Linux gamers. That's already quite a nice chunk of our back-catalog, and you can expect more from our dedicated Linux team soon!

Now, for the recent titles. We've got some indie games with native Linux versions that finally find their well-deserved spot in our store. Among them, debuting on Linux, - a well received original comedic Sci-Fi puzzler. On top of that, be on the lookout for two new additions to the GOG.com catalog: [url=http://www.gog.com/game/gods_will_be_watching]Gods Will Be Watching (coming in a couple of hours) and Unrest:Special Edition (Linux build coming right up!), both of them very fresh and intriguing. This is the very first time we can provide you with all the PC versions of a premiere game, and we will continue to do so in the future. If there's a Linux version of a title we're releasing, our aim is to deliver it to you Day-1. But enough about us, let's talk about the games. Here's what you can be playing on Linux today:

Anomaly Warzone Earth
Ascendant
Bionic Dues
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold - first time on Linux!
Blake Stone: Planet Strike - first time on Linux!
Bloodnet - first time on Linux!
Braveland
CLARC - first time on Linux!
Darklands - first time on Linux!
Darwinia
Defcon
Don't Starve + DLC
Dragonsphere - first time on Linux!
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition
FlatOut - first time on Linux!
Flatout 2 - first time on Linux!
Fragile Allegiance - first time on Linux!
Gemini Rue
Gods Will Be Watching
Hammerwatch
Hocus Pocus - first time on Linux!
Kentucky Route Zero
The Last Federation
Legend of Grimrock
Litil Divil - first time on Linux!
Long Live the Queen
MouseCraft
Multiwinia
Normality - first time on Linux!
Pinball Gold Pack - first time on Linux!
Pinball World - first time on Linux!
Pirates! Gold Plus - first time on Linux!
Realms of the Haunting - first time on Linux!
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender - first time on Linux!
Rise of the Triad: Dark War - first time on Linux!
Shattered Haven
The Shivah HD
Sid Meier's Colonization - first time on Linux!
Sid Meier's Covert Action - first time on Linux!
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Slipstream 5000 - first time on Linux!
Space Pirates and Zombies
Spacechem
Stargunner - first time on Linux!
SteamWorld Dig
Super Hexagon
Surgeon Simulator 2013
Sword of the Samurai - first time on Linux!
Teslagrad
Unrest:Special Edition (Linux build on the way!)
Uplink
VVVVVV

As if this wasn't exciting enough, we've put more than half of these titles on a special promo! Head out to the promo page and find out which of them you can get up to 75% off until Tuesday, 9:59AM GMT. Of course, all of the games from the list above that you already own will be updated with Linux versions with no additional cost for you, just as you might have expected from GOG.com.

"OK, but how will Linux support actually work on GOG.com" - you might ask. For both native Linux versions, as well as special builds prepared by our team, GOG.com will provide distro-independent tar.gz archives and support convenient DEB installers for the two most popular Linux distributions: Ubuntu and Mint, in their current and future LTS editions. Helpful and responsive customer support has always been an important part of the GOG.com gaming experience. We wouldn't have it any other way when it comes to Linux, and starting today our helpdesk offers support for our official Linux releases on Ubuntu and Mint systems.

Diversity and freedom of choice have always been an important part of the GOG.com way. We're very glad that we could improve our service with the addition of the free (and DRM-Free) alternative to the commercial operating systems. Talking with gamers is just as important, so we're counting on your feedback! If you've got any questions, suggestions, or run into any trouble, just tell us in the forum thread below this post. Just please be gentle, this is [url=http://youtu.be/qBxbPts5tOk" target="_blank]our very first time[/url] with Linux. Happy launch day, everyone!
Posted July 24, 2014
For i= 1 to 10000000;
print "THANK YOU";
next i;

That's all i have got to say...
Posted July 24, 2014
Great news, thanks for supporting Linux. The day is getting closer and closer when Linux is finally a viable option for gaming.
Posted July 24, 2014
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ET3D: Great! I've been meaning to start a new Linux experiment at some point (trying to use Linux for gaming), so that would certainly help. And now I no longer have an excuse to pick Steam for Linux support.
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JudasIscariot: As a Linux beginner myself, I can easily recommend Mint 17 :)
Mint is great. Cinnamon if you have a good video card, MATE if you don't.
Posted July 24, 2014
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ssokolow: If anything, it'd be more accurate to call the OS "FreeDesktop/Linux" since so many of the desktop standards are under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella... as are components like D-Bus.
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astropup: Lolz. Not really. You can easily run a Linux based system without Freedesktop bloat. Of course you wouldn't do it on desktop system, but it may make sense on a server system where you want to control all the process. Although not everyone does that. Some even run X11 on the server which is totally unnecessary and creates just another potential security risk.
I'm specifically talking about desktop systems since that's what GOG games run on and I did say that was the short version.

I'll accept that, for a server, "glibc/Linux" would be a more correct name if you don't want to name a specific distro. (and, true enough, various console resources like programming language runtimes report that they've been compiled for "glibc vxx.yy.zz, Linux 3.x, x86_64")
Posted July 24, 2014
thank you! I can't wait to see what games come next.
Posted July 24, 2014
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shmerl: That's not a Windows game - no need to use Wine. You can play it straight in DosBox. Some others you mentioned probably too.
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larmannjan: The installer is for windows. You need wine to install the game, not to play it.
No need to. You can unpack the game (innoextract), and then play it in your distro's native DosBox (tweaking some conf files slightly). Otherwise, using your method you'll be running it like this:

Linux -> Wine -> Windows version of DosBox -> DOS game.

What I'm saying that Wine is not needed here. You can run it like this:

Linux -> Native Linux version of DosBox -> DOS game.

See this for more details (it brings Strike commander as an example).
Post edited July 24, 2014 by shmerl
Posted July 24, 2014
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triplett: Native or Wine, doesn't matter as long as it plays well and solidly. As alluded to above, I think that Wine supported games might actually end up having greater longevity once they pass out of their "actively supported" window.
My sentiments exactly.
Posted July 24, 2014
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shmerl: That's not a Windows game - no need to use Wine. You can play it straight in DosBox. Some others you mentioned probably too.
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larmannjan: The installer is for windows. You need wine to install the game, not to play it.
All you need for a DOSBox game is innoextract to unpack the installer without running it. Wine is not required.
Posted July 24, 2014
Not to sound ungrateful, and this really is a good move (thanks!), but... please give us a "sort by platform" or "filter by platform" option for our game libraries.

(I'd like to install some of my Linux games on my Linux netbook, but if there's an easy way in the UI to see which of my games provide Linux versions, I have not found it yet.)
Posted July 24, 2014
I wish to thank (and hug) everyone involved in this awesome project!

I run Linux Mint and will make sure to buy games from GOG from now on :D

Thank you GOG, you earned my deepest respect. Keep up the good work, you'll get my money!
Post edited July 24, 2014 by glubbar
Posted July 24, 2014
Thank you GoG

I bought a little game from the list to support you.

Can't wait for the native Linux version of FTL. It runs smoothly under wine but struggles when using the Captians Mod with infinite loot.
Posted July 24, 2014
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niky45: I love you guys. seriously.

but.... PLEASE. *try* to avoid those wine builds. they are better than nothing (of course), but... that is not real linux support. (I know that somethiimes is the only thing that can be done... and that wine is better than nothing... but no real linux user/fan would consider that actual linux support).

or at least, state clearly that it runs through wine. I mean, the first time I saw that a linux port worked under wine, I felt... cheated. Now I only feel sad.
I have not seen any of the Windows users complain about the use of dosbox or scummvm, why do you? For titles that use wine, there is a notice just below the system requirements that says this:

"Notice: game comes with a 32-bit binary only, this is a Wine game Patched to version 1.1"

It's in bold text too. Less whine about wine please.
Posted July 24, 2014
While i won't be gaming on Linux anytime soon (at least until the *entire* gog/steam catalogs run on, or one windows installation no longer suffices for running them all) i REALLY appreciate you making this happen. For everything steam has brought to gaming, this is one of the pieces pulling my money away from steam and to gog... (drm free, customer support, gog galaxy & sale prices being the others, with descending importance)

Suggestion: where possible label games with "linux build coming" :)
Posted July 24, 2014
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larmannjan: The installer is for windows. You need wine to install the game, not to play it.
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ssokolow: All you need for a DOSBox game is innoextract to unpack the installer without running it. Wine is not required.
Good to know. Up until now this was best for me. It seems that DOSbox under wine takes up more RAM, but still 100mb RAM is nothing
Posted July 24, 2014
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dfjdejulio: Not to sound ungrateful, and this really is a good move (thanks!), but... please give us a "sort by platform" or "filter by platform" option for our game libraries.

(I'd like to install some of my Linux games on my Linux netbook, but if there's an easy way in the UI to see which of my games provide Linux versions, I have not found it yet.)
yeah i'd really like that too (for osx)
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