I think people would need to be told about the bugs in it beforehand. Most know about them and know how to work around them, but there's always a few that will get put out by them.

True. A lot of people do know the score, but there would also be a massive bitchfit about GOG lowering its standards heavily, letting a game with progression-breaker bugs lurking be sold as is.

My favourte one in it were the bone-breaking ones.

You'd walk off a small step and you'd break your leg. It made you laugh after a while.

I had not heard of this game before, but the art direction looks fantastic and the theme sounds right up my alley. Pretty cool addition!

Some numbers about the game categories on GOG, based on the genre tags GOG assigns to them (extracted from MaGogs data, thanks again mrkgnao):

- 455 games are tagged with "Action", 447 with "Adventure", 363 with "Strategy", 295 with "Role-playing", 151 with "Simulation" and 131 with "Shooter"

When I count only the first tag of a game, which is probably the most relevant one, I get the following list:

- 311 games have "Strategy" as their first genre tag, 296 "Action", 279 "Adventure", 222 "Role-playing", 131 "Shooter" and 91 "Simulation"

Interesting is also the combination of the first two genre tags of a game which kind of sorts the games into subcategories:

- 152 Adventure/Point-and-click
- 126 Strategy/Real-time
- 111 Action/Adventure
- 98 Strategy/Turn-based
- 81 Role-playing/Turn-based
- 56 Shooter/FPP
- 55 Role-playing/Adventure
- 50 Adventure/FPP
- 49 Shooter/Action
- 45 Action/Role-playing
- 41 Role-playing/Action
- 32 Action/Arcade

Counting the combinations of all 3 tags divides the list a lot more and isn't so much useful, but for completeness here are the most used combinations of all 3 tags:

- 43 Strategy/Real-time/Historical
- 42 Role-playing/Adventure/Fantasy
- 40 Adventure/Point-and-click/Fantasy
- 40 Role-playing/Turn-based/Fantasy
- 36 Strategy/Real-time/Sci-fi
- 34 Action/Adventure/Platformer
- 33 Role-playing/Action/Fantasy
- 31 Strategy/Turn-based/Fantasy
- 28 Strategy/Turn-based/Sci-fi
- 28 Action/Role-playing/Fantasy
- 28 Shooter/Action/Sci-fi
- 28 Shooter/FPP/Sci-fi
- 26 Adventure/Point-and-click/Detective-mystery
- 23 Adventure/Point-and-click/Horror
- 21 Adventure/Point-and-click/Puzzle
- 21 Adventure/Point-and-click/Sci-fi
- 20 Adventure/Point-and-click/Modern

All in all to me it looks like the main game genres are rather good represented on GOG. Nevertheless GOG is still missing good games in every game genre.

PS: These lists contain a few games which meanwhile have been removed from GOGs catalog (I was too lazy to remove them from MaGogs list). But that doesn't change the general view.

The story sounds interesting, and it comes with a nice release discount. Think I'll give it a try soon.

Yup that's where I am, I'm still struggling with the concept that GOG can reject a developer of this caliber. Though it's not the first time GOG has rejected fantastic games in a genre I love either. They turned Vangard Princess away too, a labor of love fighter by an ex Capcom staffer.

Then there's Dragon's Lair, a true part of gaming history rejected, and one that deserves to be here far more than say, Daikatana.

Is this a less than wellknown game? (GOG been throwing up less than recognisable titles... as least for this old gamer..)

It must be, I thought this was a new indie game but nope, 2004. Never heard of this one at all.

I still think the rejection of Dragon's Lair has to do with the 9.99 price tag. Whether or not it's worth 9.99 I can't say; I guess one could argue GOG should the buyers decide how much they want to spend.

The others I don't know. I do wonder if some of these are really being rejected or just put on hold until GOG (hopefully) can hire more staff to manage the influx (last I checked they had almost 24 job openings, which must be putting a strain on things).

You two are Aussies and I'm Murican. Maybe it was popular with Europeans?

House of Tales was a German dev - https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Tales&prev=search

This exactly, let the people decide. Games here don't just turn a profit in the first week and are then forgotten, there's gonna be sales as long as the game exists. Many games arrive here feeling overpriced but they're still here, some will buy, some will wait for sales, in the end it's all profit.

It is, in fact, a well-known cult title in Europe, by the same devs who later made [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclocked:_A_History_of_Violence]Overclocked[/url], which is probably better known for point & click fans than its predecessor.

Then again, outside of the point & click scene, I figure neither of these games are known at all; kind of like GOG's previous release for RTS fans, to be honest, I'd never heard of Impossible Creatures, I guess each genre has their own cult titles that only people inside the genre know of.

Ah I see. You know that last sentence makes an interesting point, GOG rejected Mushihime Sama, because they didn't think enough people outside Japan had heard of it (not valid given the developer) to warrant selling it here.

But yet here we are, a game that appears to be rather unknown outside of one region and yet GOG has no problem selling it. So why aren't both here? Gee, It almost feels as if GOG has a bias for and against against certain genres after all... like they stick to the genres they know of instead of considering others.

That glossy hair is so mesmerizing... O___O I must have this!