How does Technomancer run? Has it been patched and bug fixed? I remember reviews of this showing horrendous performance issues.

COOL!! Congrats to GOG for signing these games and thanks Spiders for joining the DRM-free revolution (-_^). Hope these sell really well here.

The Technomancer is a much more refined experience that Mars War Logs -- the combat is more complex and feels tighter, the game plays as an RPG more than a hack-n-slash, and the world is larger in both size and vision. There's a morality system, an affinity system, and multiple endings (as I remember). IMHO the only failings of this game are:

a. Although there are a lot of characters (and allies) to interact with and build affinity, they never seemed quite as "dirty" or "real" as the desperate world of the game suggests.

b. Backtracking for fetch quests. There's a fair amount of padding in The Technomancer -- alongside maze-like map designs. While I certainly powered through it, the middle of this game does pushed the limits of my patience with backtracking.

The Technomancer is a giant leap technologically from Mars War Logs -- and I've played through twice and feel there are still a few things to learn -- but... I enjoyed the characters and grittiness of the world a bit more in Mars War Logs. Still, I love this world and would love to see a third game!

First, combat in The Technomancer is action / real-time (a riff on The Witcher 2 and 3 combat) and it can be challenging.

Technically The Technomancer is a much better game... Bioware-influenced RPG elements, multiple endings, multiple allies with affinity system, larger world, longer game, etc.... but overall the story isn't quite as powerful, the characters aren't quite as "gritty" as the world suggests, and there's a lot of backtracking in the game's middle. So, The Technomancer is larger, longer, and much more complex than Mars War Logs, but the experience is a bit more generic (although I get the same feeling in much of Bioware's output).

I know. I didn't comment on Technomancer's level design, because I have not played it yet.

My comment described all the previous games made in Spiders' Silk engine- "of Orc and Men", "Mars: War Logs" and "Bound By Flame". There's a clear progression towards greater complexity as Spiders tried to do bigger and bigger things.

Answering the commenter's question though- the trailer for War Logs makes the game look a lot slicker than it actually is. It's still an interesting game, don't get me wrong- but The Witcher it certainly isn't

I told a Spiders dev, on the day when Bound By Flame arrived on GOG, that I would buy both these games, when they also appeared here.
He said GreedFall (A week before it launched) was their priority, but they were already talking to GOG, about releasing these.

I bought them as promised, as soon as I saw they were now here, but what I really want to see here, is GreedFall.
I own it on Steam already, but I still want a GOG version, for that sweet offline installer.

So if that devs reading, get talking to GOG some more, and I'll buy GreedFall again, the day I see it on GOG.

That's amazing. Greedfall is what I'm looking forward to. I'm also glad that we are getting the bigger budget game releases. Wasn't there someone complaining a time ago that there wasn't much in any of the way of "newer" games on GOG (even if that isn't true, as there are plenty of fantastic indie games here)?

Aww hell yes. Instant buy. Love me my spiders.

Been loving GreedFall on Xbox, so if that ends up here, another instant buy.

Yes, thank you GOG, Spiders and Focus! Instantly bought these two gems again. I really loved the setting of Mars: War Logs when I first played it and while Technomancer didn't feel as "dry and dirty", unfortunately, I still loved the smoother gameplay and (most of) the characters. Still hoping for another "Mars" game in fact, because the universe is just so damn interesting. Seeing all the recent Spiders releases here on GOG also makes me hope for a DRM-free version of GreedFall. I'd definitely buy that again, as well!

One of the things that really drew me into MWL, was how much it felt like the first The Witcher (non EE). Some quirky translations, some things that didn't make sense.

Although they've followed a different trajectory, GreedFall is up there with some of the best RPGs in the last decade, so they're well on their way to being held up next to CD Projekt, the same way CD Projekt eventually were held up to (and have now surpassed) BioWare.

They've got the magic RPG touch, just with a little less elegance, and a little more dirt under the finger nails.

Just installed the game, choosing English in the installer. But the game comes in Portuguese as far as I understand. How can I switch the game to English?

UPDATE:

Ah, I figured. The game requires a parameter -lang=eng. Apparently English isn't default for it and must be selected explicitly when launching the game.

Thank you Spiders and Focus Home Interactive, for adding achievements to all these games. As I always say, achievements aren't really needed on narrative driven games, in fact personally I find them distracting, but it's nice to see the effort put in new releases on GOG!

If all developers/publishers put this effort for their gameplay focused games(rogue-likes/platformers/puzzles/sim games) I'd have an even more outrageous GOG collection than I already do.

Thank GoG for spiders/focus for de-steaming their games! ;) I too had mars/BbF via steam, so here's to them bringing their entire library over here, and maybe we may get Styx as well as orcs and men as well! :D

What makes Spider's games so special ? Why are they worth the money ?