Our GOG GALAXY is a client dedicated to keeping all your games in one, convenient place and helping you discover your next favorite ones. With access to a functional and beautiful library, game launcher, plethora of customization options, and lots of other cool things, we strive to make it your favorite base of gaming operations.And to achieve that, we constantly improve it, add new features and make sure to make the experience of using it as smooth and pleasant as possible.
To keep our community up to date, we thought that it would be a good idea to share with you what key improvements we’ve implemented to GOG GALAXY so far in 2023. Let’s begin!
Your wishlist at hand
At the start of the year, in January, we added the “From your wishlist” section to your “Discover” view. This addition allowed for quick and easy access to information about the games that you are interested in, gathered in one place. Missing a release or any special offers is a thing of the past. Moreover, the January update also came with various fixes and smaller quality of life changes meant to improve your overall GOG GALAXY experience.
Quick access to important information about games
To make browsing and buying titles even more hassle-free, at the same time we’ve also improved the “Discover” view with the quick preview feature. It shows more details about games by just hovering over the cover. With all the crucial information like the game's rating, features, assigned tags, and screenshots, it is now much faster to browse essential information about the games you are interested in.
Moreover, if a title has caught your attention, you can easily add it straight to your cart or wishlist it from the preview as well.
It’s also worth noting that the same update brought us an improved tray icon menu which makes launching games even quicker – something that many of you requested.
One place to get support
In February, we've improved the tickets submissions system so that addressing any issues that you may encounter is done faster and more efficiently.
From that point, to make sure the reports can be addressed in the fastest way possible, we streamlined the bug reporting flow which now goes through the “Get support” button. Any time there’s something you’d like to report, you can do so by clicking the gear icon in the upper left corner where the new option can be found just below the “Share feedback”.
Additionally, we’ve replaced the whole underlying network stack, which translated to lower CPU usage and improved the overall performance. Your games should download much faster now. Also, from that update onward your GOG GALAXY version is displayed in “Add or remove programs”.
Please note: in the February update we’ve fixed the issues preventing GOG GALAXY from updating – so you’re not missing out on any improvements – as well as problems with game installations sometimes failing after resuming. This fix affected the GOG GALAXY from version 2.0.60 onward. If you still have an older version of the client and you’re experiencing this issue please refer to THIS support article to easily resolve it.
Easier Cart management and sidebar revamp
Then, at the end of March, GOG GALAXY received improvements on the front of more intuitive UI and better access to the thing you love the most – great deals!
We’ve renamed the “Deals” section to “GOG Store” and then added to it both “Deals” – showing you the current best bargains available on GOG, and “Cart” – allowing you for a quick access to your cart so you can modify its contents and ultimately make well-thought out purchases effortlessly.
On top of that, there was also the addition of a “Welcome offer” banner for our newly joined gaming enthusiasts – so they don’t miss out on cool welcome deals. Moreover, we’ve added a feature that shows active download progress and state visibility on the Windows’ taskbar, information of estimated time of downloads’ finish in the “Downloads” view, and settings to customize GOG GALAXY behavior when minimizing, closing the main window, or launching a game – things highly requested by many of you.
So there you have it – key improvements we’ve implemented to GOG GALAXY so far in 2023. If you haven’t tried GOG GALAXY yet, be sure to check it out, you won’t regret it – click HERE to download it!We’ll continuously work to provide you with even better overall experience and more cool features. Let us know what you think and we’ll see you in the next update! 