hey guys, i never used it for now and only downloaded the INSTALLERS/FILES as i didnt want another launcher :/ but is gog galaxy ok? or will it also burden your system? i just am thinking about installing it because of Cyberpunk which sucks to DL all files individually and well you can check your library easier i guess, any other benefits? ;) thx

Galaxy acts as an all in one client so if you add your game library from other clients it's supposed to start up those clients and games with one click and exit when done.

It also offers achievements for supported games, online features for selected games (multi player for the most part), hours played and other standard features of clients.

You can also use it as another option to download just the offline installers and extras.

It's no more burden than any other client out there.

It's not the worse nor the best of client / launcher out there. While its lacking features found on others like Steam for example it works fine for day to day usage (i.e. keep your game updated) and as a downloader for the installers.

Galaxy used to be more recommendable before GOG started turning it into a DRM client, which it now is in many ways (but it didn't start out that way).

But even though it's crap, you might still need it. I.e. if you want any of these things:

- Cloud Saves
- Gameplay time tracking
- Achievements
- access to the DRM'ed content that is gated behind the Galaxy DRM for the games that are like that (I.e. Cyberpunk 2077, Absolver, No Man's Sky)

...then you need to use Galaxy, or else you can't get those things on GOG.

The only thing i use GOG Galaxy for is to update my games and to download the offline installers for newly purchased games that are too big in size to use the website for.

Yes - if you want easier single click experience and additional features such as cloud saves, achievements and odd content behind Galaxy.

No - if you like offline installers and your full control over patching, downloading, updates etc.

Personally I dislike using clients / unnecessary automation / less control so I (as you could gather) do not use Galaxy and will probably stop using GOG if it becomes mandatory.

Your example with Cyberpunk is valid - however there are other examples (eg. Baldurs Gate 3) where people complained that Galaxy re-downloaded entire game (60+ GB) multiple times when updates did not work properly. So it goes both ways. For Cyberpunk specifically I would expect GOG to keep offline installers updated correctly as it is their own (CDPR) game.

You can disable all of Galaxy's automation and maintain full control over your games. It can be configured to not auto-launch on system startup and only run when you explicitly start it. You can turn off all the automatic game patching and downloading, tracking time played, achievement, friends list, chat, in-game overlay, notifications, GOG Store, etc.

On my system, with the very minimal "everything disabled" configuration I use for it, it takes about 1GB of disk space and uses about 322MB of RAM and 0.1% CPU utilization while idle. (But I still keep it shut down when I don't need it.)

If you're simply looking for a better way to download those large multi-part installer files, a download manager browser extension like DownThemAll (https://www.downthemall.org/) may be a better option. But if you want any of Galaxy's other features, you can configure it to run in a very minimal way that still allows full manual control of updates and only launching when you need it.