And while we are at it I just read about this Void Destroyer: https://explorminate.net/2015/10/25/devs-want-more-money-an-exposition/#comment-2163

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzP3kyAukHw Catface = my reaction (only less cute).

Rejection guy at gog: Do you just hate games?

It's really hard to predict what games are accepted and which are turned away.

OmniBus only increased the level of confusion because I thought that some of the games were rejected due to their low quality graphics. On the other hand OmniBus is an indie game with strange physics which someone at gog seems to like.

I undertand the frustation, and even more taking into account that, no, GOG doesn't release that many games and has several dry release times, a yet, they refuse valid games time and again. What I don't understand is your jab at pixel art games. I actually like most of those more that games like Predistination, so different tastes for different people. And we get our fair share of rejections for those games too.
Thanks.

I don't really think they have a general rule. My guess is that it works on gut feeling, at that changes on the mood and times. It also seems they like to spread the genres, so they refuse games when they got others from the same genres recently. Unfortunately, that doesn't work that well, because for whatever reasons, games many times come in packs. As in many good games of the same genre get released very close to each other. And then we get a long drought.

Yeah, you are right. That was just the quickest example of looks dated & probably floods gog by now. There are good ones and considering that I do own Starbound I'm not immune to some pixel charm either.

Had this roll back & forth in my head over the weekend. I was just completely surprised reading this. I do know that gog reject games. And most of the few cases I took a closer look when a dev played the outraged card because the game was rejected I could actually understand why. We really do not need Digital Homicide quality levels here.

But when games; by complete team in development for years, backed by their successful Kickstarter & a company support program of their gov; looks as polished as this (considering being in development) get rejected I dread to think what else. It changes my view on gog. Did we all bark at the wrong tree when games like Skyrim, newer Fallouts or Saints Row 4 does not get released here; where Voilition & Bethesda maybe just rejected by gog for these?

I do want to believe that this was another case of gog getting flooded and just mass rejected. While some devs are stubborn enough to apply again and again till gog gets it others might be to proud to do that. And I can really imagine the Irish belonging to the guys expecting gog to come to them after the rejection.

I agree to the viewpoint; support it even to some extend.

I would not even do complain if that would have been the reason given. But its not which is why I do.

Currently its not even that its "not for InDevelopment" but not on gog at all.

It has a bunch of red flags and issues.
First, it was supposed to be released Dec 2013, year after it's kickstarter, now it's more than 3 years later. It's been Kickstarted twice (a 2nd time supposedly for additional stretch goals). It was asking for a ridiculously small amount of money in both cases and ultimately only had a little over 1800 backers (1200 & 600). The $30 price tag might also be a little off-putting to GoG given the quality they saw.

Just because a game was Kickstarted, doesn't mean GoG has to take it. Especially when it was only asking for $25,000 in the first place.

But, they could still get on GoG, they will, however, probably have to sell at least 15,000 copies on Steam (or about 13,000 more after backers or another 12,000 or so upon release). I know it's Early Access still but that doesn't seem very likely...
Release date: Feb 4, 2015 Price: $29.99
Owners: 3,457 ± 1,439

So, in the year plus of Early Access, the game has gathered little interest...

I know this is rather old topic, but I believe there is still a lot to talk about.

It is sad to see how GOG turned away from several good titles (I know of two others dungeon crawlers that received very good ratings, but got rejected for pretty much the same reason) and is now releasing several titles a day that nobody cares about.

Name one title they have released in the last few days that "nobody cares about".

it was too much of a niche game for their store?

Lord they have huniepop here why not this game?, It looks like legend of grimrock's brother. I would buy it and give it a shot.

Fixed that for you. (Well, aside from the pizza and pirate ones.)

"Name one game they've released, aside from the games they've released."

Here's another approach that might work better:

Pretend the post was made 2 days ago. (All the games I mentioned were released either yesterday or today.)

But it wasn't. So why would I do that?

I definitely buy that game, they are old and p&c, with that kind of games i always associated gog platform. And in my country they never was retail version most of them (Lost Chronicles Of Zerzura, Haunted, Ghost Pirates Of Vooju Island, Mata Hari, Black Sails) but i heard that they very nice adventure games. If not on box then only drm-free gog version if game is old.