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Posted June 07, 2016
Connect your Steam account and grow or jumpstart your GOG.com library.


UPDATE: Last chance to grab your games from the original list! Make sure to get them until June 8, 12:59 PM UTC.

Want more games? We've got more games! Three new titles are now available through GOG Connect:

- Kona
- Defender's Quest
- Door Kickers

You can get them until June 13, 1:59 PM UTC.



Today, we're launching a new program called <span class="bold">GOG Connect</span>. The premise is simple: connect your Steam account and add your eligible games to your GOG.com library.

Whether you're checking us out for the first time or have been with us for a while, <span class="bold">GOG Connect</span> gets you DRM-free versions of your games, digital extras, and a whole lot of freedom of choice (like whether you go with the GOG Galaxy client or not). It gets you our take on game ownership, and we say: why buy the games more than once?

Thanks to our awesome partners including Deep Silver, Harebrained Schemes, Jonathan Blow's Number None, TaleWorlds and more, you can now add more than 20 games to your GOG.com library if you previously purchased them on Steam.

The full list of games will always be available on connect.gog.com, starting with these and more:

- The Witness
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
- Galactic Civilizations 3
- Trine Enchanted Edition
- Saints Row 2
- Shadowrun Returns
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition


While <span class="bold">GOG Connect</span> will stick around, the available games will come and go. These are limited-time offers made possible by participating developers and publishers, so stay tuned as we bring new titles onboard in the future (and grab your copies before they go away)!


For a bit more library-building, a bunch of our favorite titles will also be discounted up to -85% all week long, including The Witness, Saints Row: The Third, System Shock 2 and more. You can check out all the deals here. The sale will last until June 6, 12:59 PM UTC.
Posted June 02, 2016
From my humble experience about this journey:

1. STEAM: Set "only" the steam profile to public.

2. GOG CONNECT: Log with your steam account (the link with your gog library will be permanent, so choose wisely if you have more than a main account), and refresh every hour, or just leave it half day until it says "connected", with your steam account name and avatar.

3. Then again, refresh every hour, or just leave it half day until it shows your steam games imported ready to be added to the gog library with a green check mark.

4. By default, all games are selected. If you don't want some of them, deselect it.

5. Push the green "ADD 'x' games" button below your steam avatar and name.

6. If you get an error, try untick and tick the green marks for one of the games, and again, the ADD 'x' games button.

7. If you still have an error, wait some mins/hours and go to .6, but >NOT REFRESH< the page.

8. If you get a success message, check your gog library from another browser tab, and check your email for a gog.com receipt/order.

9. STEAM: Set the steam profile to private if that was your old settings.

Just be patient!
Thank you gog.com for such amazing move!
Posted June 02, 2016
Surgeon Simulator 2013 was just added to the list !
Posted June 02, 2016
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MaxFulvus: Surgeon Simulator 2013 was just added to the list !
But not the dlc :(
Posted June 02, 2016
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RetroMadman: But not the dlc :(
I don't have the base game, so I don't see the difference !
Posted June 02, 2016
Got only some of my games - still missing several. Getting "NO ELIGIBLE GAMES FOUND" even though several more should be available. I will try again in a few hours. I read some place that if you have too many games on steam the API will time out.

[edit: I was incorrect - I did get all my games; turned out I thought I owned Braid on steam; thinking back I probably bought it on impulse] Thanks GOG
Post edited June 02, 2016 by tacitus59
Posted June 02, 2016
Ok. Setting steam profile to public helps. Galactic Civilizations III added. Thank you.
Posted June 02, 2016
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MaxFulvus: Surgeon Simulator 2013 was just added to the list !
Thanks for posting that. ;)
Posted June 02, 2016
Day 2 has started and we get one more game :D It looks like they may be adding a new game every day.
Posted June 02, 2016
So far this feature has proven to be awesome for.
Thanks to it i now have Saints Row 2 uncut (still runs like crap i bet) and the original version of Broken Sword with english language :D

And after hours of refreshing yesterday, today Surgeon Simulator was instantly detected and added. So it seems like it's working now as intended too.
Really nice.
Posted June 02, 2016
Thank you! This is a long time dream coming true!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! <3 <3 <3
Posted June 02, 2016
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ShadowAngel.207: So far this feature has proven to be awesome for.
Thanks to it i now have Saints Row 2 uncut (still runs like crap i bet) and the original version of Broken Sword with english language :D
They capped it at 30 fps for the gog release, which helps a bit with the instability of the framerate.
Posted June 02, 2016
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Tairetsu: I went to sleep after the DDoS of last night and woke up with 4 new games on my GOG library, great :)

I still wish it was the other way around, but i'm sure Valve didn't agree to this and i'm sure that would never happen, so i guess i'm happy to see that GOG once again proves they're in it for the consumer and not necesarily the money.
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Pheace: Valve wouldn't have to agree to it. That's a publisher/dev decision. If they want to, they're well within their rights to hand out Steam keys to anyone who buys their game on GOG.

The thing is, that's already a common thing pretty much everywhere but GOG. If you buy on Humble you usually get DRM-Free + Steam key. I doubt the developers have an issue with the concept. So far it's been GOG blocking adding Steam keys, supposedly because it conflicts with their anti-DRM stance. Personally I think if they're going to tout 'Freedom of Choice' which they are with Galaxy that certainly could cover Steam keys as well.

That said, I'm sure it's not to their own benefit to start handing out Steam keys so I think it's mostly a business decision not to do so.
Maybe devs wouldn't have a reason to sell on GOG if they are also having to give away a Steam key, humble has the whole "we are giving to charity" and "we have ridiculous deals on our humble bundle" which is the main way people buy games there. So you can put your games there and sell by the truckload,while gaining moral points for helping charity, which i'm sure in turn means a profit for the devs.

I mean, I don't see why they wouldn't otherwise, i'm sure that, from a business standpoint, it makes more sense to make money and not have people overloading your servers (by having them use your storefront, thus making money, but redeem their keys and download their games somewhere else)
Post edited June 02, 2016 by Tairetsu
Posted June 02, 2016
If you can, please add a notification if Steam privacy settings prevent the games list to be properly scanned. It took me a good while to realize why it couldn't detect any of my games on Steam...

Also seems pretty stupid of Valve to apply the privacy settings to the API. If I have to explicitly allow a service to use my account, the chances are I don't mind the service looking at my games list. I like to keep stuff hidden from the world, so having to show it to everyone just to allow a third-party service (that I explicitly give consent to) to see my stuff is pretty stupid.
Posted June 02, 2016
No one had issues with actually connecting on the Steam website? Help, please :(
Posted June 02, 2016
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Tairetsu: I went to sleep after the DDoS of last night and woke up with 4 new games on my GOG library, great :)

I still wish it was the other way around, but i'm sure Valve didn't agree to this and i'm sure that would never happen, so i guess i'm happy to see that GOG once again proves they're in it for the consumer and not necesarily the money.
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Pheace: Valve wouldn't have to agree to it. That's a publisher/dev decision. If they want to, they're well within their rights to hand out Steam keys to anyone who buys their game on GOG.

The thing is, that's already a common thing pretty much everywhere but GOG. If you buy on Humble you usually get DRM-Free + Steam key. I doubt the developers have an issue with the concept. So far it's been GOG blocking adding Steam keys, supposedly because it conflicts with their anti-DRM stance. Personally I think if they're going to tout 'Freedom of Choice' which they are with Galaxy that certainly could cover Steam keys as well.

That said, I'm sure it's not to their own benefit to start handing out Steam keys so I think it's mostly a business decision not to do so.
I dont think we need just another Steam key seller even if its not directly that but more tied to wich games you have bougth here.
At least i can see the path to this store becoming yet another steam key seller in a bit time if it works the other way.
The ammount of market share Valve already have is big enough as it is
Its not good for the industry to not have competition.
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