Edit: the past few years to me it seems like there's been a pattern of fairly uninteresting releases the first six months, then a number of exciting titles the second six months. Maybe that pattern is occuring here (though GoW and Alpha Protocol break it). Plus the weather is warming up in the USA, so more people outside instead of gaming.

Most GOG releases don't interest me personally, but at the same time I'm pretty specific about the games I want to buy. (I've been able to hold off on buying anything on Steam for years now.) Much of what I want to buy is with big-name/AAA publishers who unfortunately don't want to bother with GOG, plus many of the games were heavily based around licensed properties. A lot I could get on "abandonware" sites but I'd pay for GOG releases, assuming reasonable prices of course.

Not really. Frankly, I don't even know what GOG has released lately.

(Their release threads often fall between the cracks of their announcements & arrivals, and the new releases on the store page uselessly has pre-orders and ”upcoming” titles by default. And bloody bundles.)

And between the incest horror, map games (affectionate), and countless top down shooters that aren't Tyrian...I've got to say I'm basically shrugging here.

Most of the games I'd be thinking to want for a release here are in that murky period between the Windows G library and the first version of DirectX. Speaking from experience: Good luck.

Oh, and the countless handfuls of educational software (Super Solvers), shareware titles, and more.

Just FYI, ZoomPlatform has been re-releasing a lot of edutainment titles the past year or so, like JumpStart.

That's strange, as you seem to be in every single new release thread to complain about how moch you do not like the look of the game, or the what kind of game it is.

Have there been any really cool releases since fallout 4? (not counting the Sony games, I remember those).

Alpha Protocol at least

edited several times: forgot about TR Remastered and Dark Forces Remaster and Robocop

Not "really" cool but I appreciate GOG unrejecting Realms of Antiquity; that had like 1k votes.

Not pretty satisfied, no.
Im OK with the recent releases because we had some good surprises like TRRemastered.

Im just quite annoyed with the curation choosing some weird games and some half cooked ones, clearly not finished. Though as explained in this thread I value curation over no curation at all.

What I'd like to see more is Metroidvania games here on GOG.
Problem is they tend to be overly priced, specially the big ones.

I'd love to see Salt & Sanctuary, Salt and Sacrifice, Vigil: The Longest Night and some others coming here.
Also, the obvious Capcom and Konami games / Japanese Companies games we never got..

Thank you, that's great I think there are really not enough racing games in the gog catalog

I tried to check the GOG catalog to see what has GOG released within a month or so, but for some reason that page is near unreadable for me right now.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/ive_become_blind

Failing that, yeah I feel there certainly have been interesting releases. I wishlisted e.g. Manor Lords. Front Mission 1-2, Inspector Schmidt etc.; overall I still have 59 items on my GOG wishlist even though I have over 2600 games on GOG already.

I am mostly interested in semi-new AAA releases, and hyped up indie games like Manor Lords or Kingmakers (which isn't on GOG but hopefully some day; well it isn't actually released anywhere yet, release date somewhere in 2024). My appreciation for indie games have gone up as nowadays many indie games seem better than AAA games of the past (not only pixel art vomits anymore), and indie studios take risks that bigger game publishers try to avoid nowadays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1el3ZQkvQ8

Risk aversion may be why so many AAA titles hug the woke ideology, they believe it will sell the games better and keep the journalists and reviews more favorable to their title.

I've been thinking, if I made an AA or even A level game myself, I would add ONE player character that is a black lesbian overweight disabled woman in a wheelchair, no matter what the game is (e.g. a medieval RPG or an scifi shooter). That way I would both check all the needed woke-boxes (diversity etc.) for the release, and also please the antiwoke crowd who'd (hopefully) get the joke of tokenism. Win-win.

Yup. That too. Unfortunately.
Thats easier to understand though because so many racing games have licensed cars that its just a black hole of tied ownership for GOG to do something to solve.

Take Need for Speed series for example.
Many licensed cars (if not all) and many licensed soundtracks from famous artists.
Practically an impossibility to ever be solved by GOG alone.
They might as well just be abandonware forever 'sadly'. Terraria fans looking at you:

>:(

haha
(I love Terraria by the way.)

Also, cool info:

Did you guys know that Re-Logic released for a free a "downgrade" for Terraria on Steam, where you are able to downgrade your game from the current version (1.4.4.9) to older version 1.0.6.1 and play Terraria as it was in the beginning?

Wonder if they plan to release this on GOG too...

I admit simple graphics have their place too, I mainly can't stomach games which use bad graphics (or old Duke3D game engines) just trying to seem cool and retro. Not sure I'd count Terraria as one of those games though.

I've tried playing Terraria in the past but just couldn't get into it, then again I didn't give it a fair chance since I tried it only like 15-30 minutes, realizing I have absolutely no idea what I am supposed to do in the game. Then again Minecraft has had a similar fate in my hands, so... Yeah I am probably to blame there, can't understand all games.

My initial reaction was categoric no, but now I am more ambivalent. There's a handful of games I personally had some interest in, and others that seem reasonable but I had no interest in; some new, some old, and some remasters of old games. But in order to see them all I had to look through all of the slop that I think shouldn't have passed curation whatsoever and had to look at the long list of titles on the community wishlist that people have coveted for years.

What I do like however, are the modern releases that have qualities reminiscent of some older or classic titles. Manor Lords, Broken Roads, Eiyuden Chronicles, and the upcoming SKALD come to mind. It keeps things fresh and interesting and remains within principle whilst GOG goes through whatever tribulations are associated with procuring actual old classics. They are a bit of a risk for GOG, allowing titles from unknown independent developers with an unproven record, though I do wish that the curation was a little more stringent.

That's fair. Not all games are for everyone and graphics can be a big deal.
I may also admit that I do judge some releases here on GOG only by artstyle without giving the game a second look.
Seldom we care about graphics, It seems to me, but we do, or not, identify ourselves with artstyles; so that can, indeed, be a deal breaker.

Why would one want to do that? Is the early version somehow better? Similar thing as with World of Warcraft Classic or whatever it is?

I hope updates would usually make the game better, but maybe that is not always the case then, like hearing the recent Fallout 4 update was broken?
Just to clarify that I didn't give Terraria a pass because of its simple (but apparently fitting) graphics, but because I couldn't easily comprehend the point of the game, and it seemed like a total timesink where I'd use hundreds of hours just trying to figure out how to play it. Maybe sandbox games in general are not my thing, life is too short etc.

(and then I go start some 100+ RPG anyway...)

I've generally liked GTA games though, in case they count as sandbox games... but they usually still have some guided main mission or objective in them, and all the sandbox stuff is optional.

Not to de-rail the thread, but, a quick response is that it was a community request.
Not because the last version isn't good, but because they changed so many things and so much content that a nostalgic version with less content was requested, and well, Re-Logic did it for the fun ot it.

They even called it: "Terraria Undeluxe Edition". If you own Terraria, you can play it, for free.

For you to have an idea of how much content they removed:

The latest Terraria version (1.4.4.9) weights around 800mb.
The "Undeluxe Edition" weights around 30mb.

Ah I see. Thanks for explaining and sorry for misunderstanding. :)
Yeah, Terraria is a true sandbox with some objectives in it, but you may play it without ever completing the 'main quest' forever.

Now we should stop because we derailed the thread quite a bit I'd say.
My bad.

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Anyway, hope it gets released here. :)