I prefer very little curation, but I think that's easy for me to say because I have a very defined gaming interest (mainly Western RPGs with some shooters). It's easy for me to follow a certain curator like RPG Watch and see all the games I need to see. Plus unless it's a CRPG like Pillars of Eternity I'm not real big on indie games, so sites like PC Gamer fill me in on all I need to see.

In other words when I go to GOG or Steam I'm already aware of what I'm looking for because I heard about it elsewhere.

I think GOG has been doing amazing this year with their releases. I mean we got Curse of Monkey Island last week!
I am definitely glad that they don't put every indie game ever on here. I agree with one of the earlier posters that itch.io is the better place for that. One of my favorite parts about here is that every game gets its own release page. If there were 40 games released here a day like at Steam that would just not be the case.

When I look at the indie games I've enjoyed over the past few years, pretty much all of them have been released on GOG, so when it comes to my tastes, GOG is really catering to them.

I do wish there were more Japanese games here like Visual Novels, but there are a lot of bad visual novels and the good ones like Danganronpa, Zero Escape and Steins;Gate probably don't look much different than the terrible ones like Sakura and Nekopara to the curators at GOG (and a lot of the users here who don't play those types of games) so I do think it is better that they take a heavy handed approach and don't release games from this genre until they have someone more knowledgeable about quality Japanese games working at GOG.

Well, you knew the answer already. At least I would miss them just for the sake for having the complete series here.

Same for e.g. the early Ultima or Might & Magic games. I personally don't feel they are worth playing anymore (other than for maybe academic interest, on where these famous RPG series started), but I am happy they are here for the sake of completeness.


I am pretty sure sometimes games will be rejected from GOG simply because GOG is swamped with new releases at that very point when someone offers a game to GOG, and/or several "similar" games are already being released. So sometimes it may be simply about bad timing and bad luck, rather than GOG staff sharply measuring games against each other.

Also if it is a game unknown to GOG, a quick test round playing the game might not reveal it as such a gem that the die hard fans consider that particular game, especially if there are not lots of positive reviews elsewhere already, or the game is quite popular elsewhere already. It isn't the first time that GOG has first rejected a game, and later apparently changed their mind and released it anyway (or then they had simply postponed its release, due to being swamped with new releases during the earlier attempt).

Exactly why it's here.

Bubsy is a new game made by Black Forest, who also made Giana, which was awesome. It's not a bad game.
MoO3 and EE3 are third games in a series, and since GOG in part deals in nostalgia, it's good business to complete the series and sell games that were widely played on release and require little additional rights negotiation.

Agree on Grandpa's Boring Strategic Wargames. The situation with Axiom Verge is unclear and I'm not going to jeopardize it further by talking out of my ass, but by all accounts it's not a rejection and especially not a rejection over quality.

I like Grandpa-ly Strategic Wargames :(

Can't really argue with this. Seen a few threads of 'XYZ game was rejected by GoG' a few times.

But i also believe in some minimum level of quality control. Certainly i'd love to see certain other games here, although a number of the really old school ones i get ahold of and can't find myself playing them even if i would love to see it here. So best they don't come here. (Jet fighter series for example)

But do we really need 10+ of them, in such a short time?

That article is so wrong on so many levels. There's literally no connection between the flood of low quality games on Steam and the 1983 video game crash. Seriously, zilch.

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Obscure game by dead company that has been surpassed by newer games sounds like exactly the kind of game GOG used to focus on. If either one of those points were a reason for GOG not to release a game here I'd just grab my stuff and leave.

...Yeah, but I think Stars! is better for that.

Well, I prefer my surpassed obscure games by dead companies to be also fun.

Hey now, what does that mean? :p