I haven't used GOG in years but decided to randomly check back in. Is there still no Linux support?

I kind of feel GOG is kind of disappearing, as I never hear about it anymore. My guess is because it just stagnates, they don't invest in Linux or anything else that I know of . Part of me wants to return here but....well I don't want to go through the hassle and also don't want to support a store front that doesn't continue improving.

I'm sure I'm going to get some flame type replies, but these are honest questions and concerns.

Kinda a deviation here, but still 'on topic':

I don't remember where I read something about a probable GOG partnership with Heroic devs.
So there's probably a huge chance of GOG and Heroic uniting for Linux gaming, which is good for Wine/Proton+GOG releases.

I tested an Auto created Heroic Wine Prefix this week and the game worked normally without any hassle (even better than on Windows).
Literally "Install game" > "create a new prefix for game" > installed > works great.

Heroic is probably the best non-advanced Linux gaming experience we have right now, together with Lutris.

On that note, although it isn't officially supported by GOG, is Lutris or the Heroic Games Launcher insufficient in any capacity? It seems pretty good to me at least, so much so that I don't bother raising the concern. Although that's not really something I can deduce for myself with a relatively slim library of games to test with.

Nobody should flame you. Yer fine with an opinion.

On that note, staff tend to not care what a handfull of people rant about on their forum.

Gog wont croke any time soon. As long as customers can hang onto product they pay for, its still plodding along.

As for anything linux. Well it is unpopular for a good set of reasons. Maybe the people fiddling with it, perpetually ignoring complaints, would do well to improve. But that rarely happens.

The lack of a Linux build is the only good thing that can be said about GOG Galaxy. The day this malware reaches Linux is the day I leave GOG.

While I'm also not a fan of Galaxy, its lack of support for Linux is what is preventing some publishers from offering Linux native builds that are available elsewhere. Therefore it does no one any good really.

Even if support were added, you can very well keep ignoring it if you want to. Non-Galaxy Windows users have always done that. Why are you so sure? :P You're raised a pertinent point on a feature that has always been lacking on GOG. I mean, this is the internet after all, but some of us are still sane.

Prior to Galaxy, GOG did already get Linux and Windows games. It’s only when they started pushing for Galaxy integration that the disparity with Steam started.

The best way to get rid of problems with Galaxy integration is to get rid of Galaxy itself. That’s the problem: we can’t expect that. We have seen many times Windows games with Galaxy ties even when using the so-called "offline" installers. Some by mistake, some willingly.

From what I have seen, that is the opposite. I have heard more about GOG without even looking nowadays. I came across many YouTubers who have talked about GOG or recommended a game on GOG.

Even if they're not supporting the smallest PC gaming user base the way you like, they are still improving. Weird statement.

They could, and it would greatly cut costs in addition to once again being able to work on the store itself.

But they won’t. They still live in the dream of becoming some kind of new Steam.

There is a partnership with the Heroic dev team. They get a small % of money for each game that is bought through Heroic on GOG, and the team is in contact with GOG, at least on some level.

I think Heroic is genius, and works 99% of the time for me, and having achievements logged on my GOG account while I play when using it? Amazing work. One of the few projects I regularly support on Patreon, even outside of the % they get for game sales made through Heroic :)

Thanks for the comments. Didn't know GOG was partnered with Heroic, that's pretty interesting.

Off topic---

Since returning to the forums yesterday, I see a lot of people have issues with GOG Galaxy. I used it on Windows years ago and didn't have issues except one time when a game I was playing reverted save data to something old. Not sure if that was Galaxy related or not but it sucked. Only happened one time though. I'll have to look up why the hate for GOG Galaxy when I get the time, but I do see a number of discussions on the topic.

That's nice to know! Thanks for sharing.
May you please share any source of this info, only for conscience confirmation, if you will? :)


I can't say. Never used Galaxy because the reason I started using GOG was the offline installers.
It seems that if you use Heroic connected to GOG, Heroic will use Galaxy API though, so you might try that if you ever happen to find such problems reported by other users.

I was gonna say, mischievous by name, mischievous by nature.

Anyway, you clearly haven't been around to pay enough attention, because things are not like you think, aside from the same continuing limited level of support for Linux, and Linux is not a fast growing market, and certainly not very big in relation to the number of Windows and even Mac gamers. So for GOG the outlay on supporting Linux more, would likely mean spending more than they would get back or barely enough to make it worthwhile, especially when they have more important things they need to spend their money on. I say that as a Linux version collector who wants more.

That said, I believe that GOG have been working with Heroic devs, which will reputedly give greater Linux support.

GOG have grown a lot, and are more visible now than ever before. So I don't know where you've been hanging out, but clearly not the right kind of places. GOG are both better and worse than they were before, but by all accounts have a much larger customer base now.

I'm not going to say GOG Galaxy is bad, but I will say it was much better in the original form it was; though I reject the idea of glorified Chromium box apps (Electron) anyway.

Though, the ideal way of Linux support I'd give would be tar.gz or Appimages.