If you are serious, then i strongly recommend Evening Starter.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/evening_starter

While that may be true, Pinball Construction Set is a very old, and primitive game. Old enough to have launched for the Apple ][, of all things. Also, I'm not certain that commercial distribution would have been allowed by EA.

But hey, don't let that or four color primitives stop you!

That's probably correct. However what he (and many other) don't realize is that the release of these games have nothing to do with the non relase of those games he'd like to have here. You can be pretty sure that GOG would bring these games if they see a demand AND the possibility to get them here. Very often there are legal problems especially with older games. You read about this just recently with Alpha Protocol ... those things take time. Also some devs simply don't want to have additional work with supporting another platform while not getting much income from it because of the smaller market share GOG unfortunately has. In the meantime GOG is trying to get games here they can get easier which also do sell and therefore bringing in money to raise the possibility to get even more and other games to GOG as well.

I perfectly do understanmd that these games are not for everybody (pretty sure that they were not meant to be for everybody as well) but I am also sure that they are not the reason why the other games he mentioned are not here. To improve chances that these games will come here I suggest to contact devs, publishers and right holders to tell them that there's a true demand on GOG for these games.

That is not a genre I usually enjoy much. I am far more interested in Chevalier Historie , for example.

In that case, Ideology in Friction may be to your fancy as well.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/ideology_in_friction_deluxe_edition

The DLC for that one is still "Coming Soon", even though it's been released elsewhere. That's the only thing holding me back from picking up Chevalier.

I contacted Rake in Grass early last year, and they told me that they tried over and over to get their games on GOG, however, GOG each time refused. In fact, it's not just about demand, copyright or anything else, sometimes it's GOG itself saying a big "NO" to publishers/developers.

This sadly seems to be true as well and this will always be a problem with curation. However this is mostly the case when it comes to indie games (which are also often a bit newer). I was more talking about the old games you mentioned earlier and it's unlikely that GOG would refuse some true classics if they actually could get their hands on them. Regarding GOGs curation so far GOG never explained why they do accept certain games and reject others so it often feels pretty random and I can understand people who are sad or angry if a game they'd like to see here has been rejected by GOG but the reason for this most certainly is not the acceptance of other games so imo we should treat this as different things.

Huh. I did not know there was a missing DLC. I'll keep that in mind if I ever come closer to buying it. Thank you.

I'd probably play it too indeed, but truth be told it doesn't grab my interest as strongly as CH does.