Okay, you must seldom go to the movies or concerts then – or they are much cheaper in the Netherlands than here in Germany. :)

No offense, it's your money and your decision. I just wonder why people call 5h games for 5€ too short but go to 2-3h movies or concerts that cost as much or (much) more. Additionally, length alone doesn't equal quality. I prefer a good short game to a long one with boring lengths or content that seem to be only in the game to stretch it.

edit: typo

Well it is a 2h game, not a 5h game according to HowLongToBeat.

It's a 5h game according to vicklemos.

Whoever fits your playing style more, it's still well in the range of movies and concerts.

Then it will most likely be a bit closer to 5h game to me, as I never played anything through as fast as HLTB tells the average playthrough to take. I'm already a bit over 2 hours in and already think it's worth the price, but it's subjective of course which people may or may not agree with.

I share your antipathy towards music puzzles but this is one instance where The Guest did better than Myst. You repeatedly hear the tune you're meant to produce yourself while you figure out the puzzle, allowing you to compare the pitches far more efficiently.
Pretty good game! Short and sweet, definitely worth 5 dollars in my book.

I do not know if anyone has mentioned this here, but the "other game seller" has a downloadable DEMO of this game. I wonder if GoG will also get the demo.

My big problem with the Myst one is that back in the day, the setup made it extremely difficult to get the sliders aligned to precisely the right pitch (especially with cheap speakers) unless you naturally had near-perfect pitch. Even with breaking down and consulting a guide with a clear photo of the right positions, I still had to tweak each of the many sliders by a couple of pixels at a time to get the game to accept the solution. It just sort of soured me on the puzzle type. :)

However, I'm glad to hear this one is manageable.

ok, another reason for me to keep NOT playing Myst :D I would really love to one day, but everytime I have the right feeling, something just makes me play something else instead :)

Steam also offers the OST as free downloadable content, but GOG doesn't. Would love to hear the reason behind this discrimination.

Since the game has been available since March 2016 on Steam, I can see why the publisher might not want to provide the demo for this short game to GoG. But I do not understand why they would not offer the OST. We will see over the next few months whether these items come to GoG.

As I understand it, these things are (mostly?) the decision of the developers/publishers, not GOG.

Me too, I'm the kind of gamer who explores any last corner of a game and stops to awe at the design the developers often spend years of their lives on. In games like Witcher 2, I usually walk through towns because it seems more realistic to me and I can immerse myself in the lively town activity around me.

viclemos' review recommended playing The Guest in darkness, I do that on principle for atmospheric games, hence I play most of them in winter. I can't understand people who play eerie games in bright daylight, as long as it's not too scary for them otherwise.

Thus, The Guest could be a game for me – if it came for Linux …

I'll be the first one to admit that I'm not one of those people who can play everything without getting even a bit cautios, or at times a bit scared for the lack of a better term. Still I like to play atmospheric titles like this at night with my headphones on. While at times I wonder why am I doing this, it definitely sucks me in to the game a lot better. I'm sure some shrugs this game off as boring/not scary, which they definitely have the right to do as it is subjective, but to me this has been a pleasant surprise, partly due to my rather lively imagination.

Also getting a bit off-topic but I'm glad I'm not the only one who openly admits doing that, walking through towns/forests/whatever to get a feel of the area you are in. I can lost myself for the whole game session just wandering around aimlessly and seeing what's going on, without actually doing anything to progress in the game.
I've heard several times how I don't actually play the game, but that's again a rather subjective take on the matter.

That's where the "discrimination" was (mostly?) directed at. But it does say something about GOG too if the dev/pub passed their decision to not offer it here.