Glad to see this one here, good going tfishell!
Edit: Well, I'll be glad once the game page works. :)

Yes, finally!
Would have gladly paid something for it, though.

Did not expect! Thanks tfishell, GOG, and Blackpowder Games.

Well, that's a nice surprise. The last comment on https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/betrayer (which a bluetext can mark as completed now) is mine in 2021: "Apparently it was removed from Steam 'at the request of the publisher'. Which, as far as I can discover, is also the developer, Blackpowder Games. Whose website no longer exists."

Wondering about the details of tfishell's role in this.
Is some kind of middleman or mediator what it takes to get certain games (with a decent count of wishlist votes to them) added to the catalogue now too?

Looks like the news went out, before the actual game page did.

This game is great! :o

link works now.
thx GOG!

*spit take*

Oh hey! Unexpected! I have to admit I did request a credit in the release post, so much thanks to the GOG staff who remembered to do this. And for GOG accepting this despite making no money from it.

Like in the era of the "game rights diary-esque thread", basically I did some snooping and contacting, and got in touch with the correct person. I'll keep it vague (maybe add more details later), but there's a reason it is free.

BTW, this was the game I made a thread for months ago asking how to get in touch directly with GOG biz-dev. edit: here's the thread. Cranky and sarcastic b@st@rds in it. ;) I imagine priority titles for GOG are games that have mainstream publishers and easily-available contact info, and weren't previously rejected (besides of course not being legally complex). It wasn't too hard but I did a little digging for Betrayer.

In any case, @anyone: people should always vote on the wishlist, of course, especially for titles that are pretty low on votes (I'd say fewer than 300 but that's just me). I snooped for Betrayer info because Betrayer had over 1k votes and was an indie so I figured I had an okay chance of reaching someone who actually knew something and that it had a better shot of a re-release over some AAA title of course.

I don't do this game rights research like I used to years ago. Others are certainly free to look into games themselves, though.

Not exactly the first time though, for instance The Dark Heart of Uukrul, as I understand it only made it onto GoG because of the late Scott Greig (Kill0byt3) and if I remember correctly, we have (former) members of GoG's stream team to thank for the DRM-free re-release of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.

Great work, tfishell!! Thank you.

I have to say I was hesitant to click the topic because I wasn't familiar with Betrayer so I assumed it may be like other "available to play FREE" titles on GOG that require online/are related to GWENT. Very pleasantly surprised that isn't the case here.

Well, thank you again, good sir.

Now we just need people to do the same for all the other games on the community wishlist.

Really glad to see this available again. It's kind of a sparse, niche game, but the thought put into it and the talent behind it (ex-Monolith, including the lead designer, lead software engineer, and lead art director on F.E.A.R. 1) mean that it's very rewarding if you can get into it.

There are posts on the Steam forums saying the dev's website had posts on it saying they'd been bought out by some guy who wanted to turn the site into a tech tips thing, or something like that. But, AFAIK, the supposed "Blackpowder Games" site was just a flash-in-the-pan domain squatter/SEO thing (it doesn't exist on the Wayback Machine pre-2022). The actual dev studio has been inactive/dormant since Betrayer came out a decade ago.

Oh no, I knew it!! There had to be a catch...
(paranoia mode engaged)
What is it? Spyware? A hacking tool? Cryptominer? Spambot? Computer sabotage? A Skynet client?
OMG OMG OMG ... need ... to ... breathe