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Posted October 26, 2020
Halloween comes early this year! On GOG.COM, it rains from the sky accompanied by a lot of tricks and treats, handed to you on purple tentacles that defy the laws of physics. So, get ready to descend into the dimension of discounts, with over 850 game deals, accompanied by new game releases and staff recommendations!

First, let’s take a look at terrifying releases you can now get on GOG.COM:

· Creepy Tale (-15%) is an Indie adventure title soaked with the dark atmosphere of twisted fairy tales like Brothers Grimm.

· Infliction: Extended Cut (-40%) will take you on a journey into a fractured home full of creepy secrets to discover. The discount on this game will last until 9th November 2020, 2 Pm UTC.

· Maid of Sker (-20%) will send chills down your spine as it leads you to a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history inspired by British folklore.

· Othercide (-30%) will give you the opportunity to lead your army to battle with all the skill you can muster.

· Song of Horror Complete Edition (-40%) will make you run and hide from a mysterious, deadly entity that adapts to your every action and decision.

After the maddening tension caused by the new releases begins to fade away, it’s time to take a look at cosmic deals during our Halloween Sale! For starters, you should take a look at the otherworldly, award-winning RPG – The Outer Worlds (-50%). Next, check out thrilling games like Control Ultimate Edition (-30%) and Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition (-70%), as they set you up on a fight against forces beyond comprehension. If you have a huge thirst for chills, titles like Darkwood game (-66%), Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (-40%), and classic Phantasmagoria (-35%) will fulfill your darkest desires.

If you wish to save the world from hell or alien swarms, try FPS titles such as Painkiller Black Edition (-80%) and Serious Sam 4 (-15%). Want more action? Games like the award-winning Blasphemous game (-50%) and Warhammer: Chaosbane (-65%) can help you defeat the minions of darkness with a bang. The same task becomes much more elaborate in adventure games such as The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters (-40%) or Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York (-50%). Last but not least, unique titles like A Plague Tale: Innocence (-66%), horror game CARRION (-25%), and Metro Exodus - Gold Edition (-66%) will remind you why you should be afraid of the dark.

We know that venturing into the dark abyss of discounts is no small feat. That’s why we’ve prepared GOG.COM's staff recommendations for you, to serve as a guiding light through the indescribable and decadent corridors of our Halloween Sale:

· In the Tricks collection, you’ll find all the scary, horror-like titles.
· If you look for more cute and funny titles – check out the Treats collection.
· The Ghostly Indies collection consists of some great games from small studios.
· The Spooky RPGs collection is dedicated to the best role-playing games.
· The Scariest Discounts collection features the Halloween Sale’s best deals.

Enter the creepy dimension of the Halloween Sale on GOG.COM before the portal closes on November 2nd, 2020, at 2 PM UTC.

If you want to see some cool gameplay featuring some of the titles present in this Halloween Sale, visit our Twitch channel. Here are the dates from our Stream Team:

· Gabriel Knight 2: the Beast Within played by BraxtonWise - 29th October, 5 PM UTC.
· Iratus: Lord of the Dead played by BiffMcSkylark - 30th October, 2 PM UTC.
· Maid of Sker played by Vlad of TheWeekendSlice - 31th October, 8 AM UTC.
· Sanitarium played by BraxtonWise - 31th October, 4 PM UTC.

The complete schedule can be found here.
Post edited October 28, 2020 by emter_pl
Posted October 26, 2020
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i_hope_you_rot: Ok Gog , Daedalic and Unfrozen . Let me complain :

https://www.gog.com/game/iratus_necromancer_edition 49.49€

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16624/Iratus_Necromancer_Edition/ 34,85€
Looks like they only put "standard edition" on sale and not the Necromancer's on sale here. Both editions are on sale over there, and price for "standard edition" is same on both. Hopefully oversight?
Post edited October 26, 2020 by mqstout
Posted October 26, 2020
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Post edited January 11, 2021 by rentvatten
Posted October 26, 2020
NIce sale -- although I do notice some prices creeping North. But...

... had hoped Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth would make the list.
Posted October 26, 2020
Question about Gato Roboto: Will the game run fine on Intel integrated graphics, or is a dedicated graphics card necessary for that game?

(Also, why is the game over 300 megabytes?)
Posted October 26, 2020
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MarkoH01: You still don't know that in almost every case (which means every case in which the achievements are only available if you use Galaxy) you can turn achievements off if you don't like them?
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mqstout: I covered this in my other post. I use Galaxy, it has good features. And even turning off achievements it nags you "Oh, you have 0% of the achievements for this game!" And especially for more casual players' benefits, off should be the default. Stardew Valley, for instance, is extraordinarily disheartening to people because one of its achievements is beating the one ultra-hard minigame inside it, souring an otherwise great game because of the achievement. And if they're on, it DOES psychologically manipulate people into participating in the systems.

If they were off by default, and, if you have them off, it literally doesn't show that the game even has achievements? Then maybe this would be a different conversation.

And it goes beyond that. Every game's storage page that has achievements lists a "popular achievements" area, encouraging participating in the rat race andor feelsbad from missing out andor spoilers. When I look at a friend's profile, it shows their achievement hunting, without hiding. My own would too [and have to do so again every time I reinstall Galaxy or use a new computer], even though I've turned achievements off. I didn't in the past have them off, and there's no way to clear that data now.

So, no, I can't "just turn off achievements if you don't like them" and yes, their lack of presence is 100% a positive feature.
While I kind of understand where you are coming from (even though I find it extremely silly to complain about something just because you know that it exists ... it stil exists on Steam as well so ...) it still does not change that achievements missing is NOT 100% positive for EVERYBODY and therefore it is not a fact but an opinion and you should be so tolerant and accept different opinions.
Post edited October 26, 2020 by MarkoH01
Posted October 26, 2020
Now this is a BIG sale!
Too bad I can't partake (saving money for winter holidays).
Posted October 26, 2020
My thoughts on achievements:

First of all, IMO achievements should be a feature coded into the game itself rather than a feature of the platform. In other words, system-wide achievements don't make sense to me, but achievements that are accessed in-game through a menu do.

Also, the best use of achievements is to encourage players to try some different things. For example, a good achievement might be to defeat a certain boss with an instant-death skill, something that most players wouldn't try to do otherwise. Alternatively, an achievement might involve an unusual use of a certain ability. In other words, achievements should be there to guide the player into experiencing aspects of the game they wouldn't otherwise.

In any case, here are some achievements that I *don't* like in games:
* Secret achievements (since achievements should guide the player, players should know what they are; if an achievement's name or description would contain a spoiler, it shouldn't be an achievement).
* Progression achievements, like reaching a certain point in the game. (For example, one for defeating a specific mandatory boss.)
* Achievements that take a long time to get, and which don't really require anything other than time, especially if the requirements are rather hign. For example, from what I can read Wasteland Remastered has an achievement for walking 10,000 steps, one for killing 1,000 enemies, one for getting $50,000 (though that one is at least a little more interesting), and one that requires reaching level 131 (which requires 1/2 the XP that reaching max level would require).

To summarize what I've written, achievements should be there to guide the player to interesting content, not to measure how "good" a player is at the game or how much time they've spent.
Posted October 27, 2020
I don't care much about trophies and achievements but I still won't buy games that leaves them out on Gog, simply because you pay the same price for less features compared to other stores. Same with mod support. I bought Kenshi on Steam because that's where the mods and replayability are.
Post edited October 27, 2020 by -Nachtmahr-
Posted October 27, 2020
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From other interesting deals – looking like historical lows:
· DARQ -70%
· Cat Quest -80%
· Call of Cthulhu -75%
· Way of the Samurai -75%
· Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice -75%
Posted October 27, 2020
Meh... still waiting for Risk of Rain 2 and Spelunk 2...
Posted October 27, 2020
I will hate myself, but tomorrow I'll get Othercide. :P
I dislike the premise that units are disposable...and that sacrificing is even encouraged. :( *XCOM flashbacks intensify*
Posted October 27, 2020
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dtgreene: Question about Gato Roboto: Will the game run fine on Intel integrated graphics, or is a dedicated graphics card necessary for that game?

(Also, why is the game over 300 megabytes?)
I tried it under wine on my Sandy Bridge era laptop (HD Graphics 3000) currently running Arch Linux and playing a few minutes it seemed to work perfectly (other than a slight delay near the beginning of the opening animation, presumably related to loading, that didn't happen again). That doesn't necessarily mean it will work under Windows, but I'd guess it has a good chance, particularly with a somewhat newer video card (wine can ignore potential issues in some cases and Linux drivers are quite a bit better than windows for sufficiently old hardware; my exact CPU was released in January 2011, almost a decade ago).

The game is 445MB on disk and of that 377MB is in audiogroup1.dat. The installer I have is 387MB and gzip -9 brings audiogroup1.dat down to 353MB and a tar and gzip -9 of the installed game is 383MB. The GOG uninstaller takes up a rediculous 3MB. I could have 500MB of disk spaced used by GOG uninstallers :(.
Post edited October 27, 2020 by joveian
Posted October 27, 2020
I wishlisted Maid of Sker and bought Song of Horror Complete Edition. Thank you GOG!
Posted October 27, 2020
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dtgreene: Question about Gato Roboto: Will the game run fine on Intel integrated graphics, or is a dedicated graphics card necessary for that game?

(Also, why is the game over 300 megabytes?)
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joveian: I tried it under wine on my Sandy Bridge era laptop (HD Graphics 3000) currently running Arch Linux and playing a few minutes it seemed to work perfectly (other than a slight delay near the beginning of the opening animation, presumably related to loading, that didn't happen again). That doesn't necessarily mean it will work under Windows, but I'd guess it has a good chance, particularly with a somewhat newer video card (wine can ignore potential issues in some cases and Linux drivers are quite a bit better than windows for sufficiently old hardware; my exact CPU was released in January 2011, almost a decade ago).

The game is 445MB on disk and of that 377MB is in audiogroup1.dat. The installer I have is 387MB and gzip -9 brings audiogroup1.dat down to 353MB and a tar and gzip -9 of the installed game is 383MB. The GOG uninstaller takes up a rediculous 3MB. I could have 500MB of disk spaced used by GOG uninstallers :(.
So, it sounds like it would work on my system, then. (My desktop has HD 4000 graphics, and my laptop is more recent (albeit with Chromebook-level specs), and I run Linux on both of them.)
Posted October 27, 2020
I'd be more inclined to be excited for the sale if I was actually able to download things.

I've had 3 downloads (one very out of date game with 5GB of updates and 2 demos of games I want to try before I buy) constantly failing on me and having issues when i try and set them to retry, causing major problems with my attempt at actually managing the downloads the way I want to. There's a lack of pause option in Galaxy, which is also not helping matters, because I DEFINITELY don't want to cancel and wipe all the progress on the download only to have to restart it from nothing later.

I'd contact support, but given that the last time I did that, I had to complain on social media to get a response after more than a month of waiting, the reply I got didn't actually resolve anything, and it's been another month and a half since... yeah I'm not sure I can trust support to respond, let alone respond in a timely manner, to this issue.

Maybe if you WEREN'T TRYING TO FORCE EVERYONE TO USE A BETA CLIENT IN VIOLATION OF OUR PREFERENCES TO OPT OUT OF BETA TESTING IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC WHERE YOU ALREADY HAD A 4 WEEK TURNAROUND ON SUPPORT TICKETS, this wouldn't have been quite as big a problem?
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