When I bought these games they worked on XP.

Here's a list.

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Beyond Good & Evil

Beyond Zork - The Coconut of Quendor

Dark Fall 2: Lights Out

Dark Fall: The Journal

Deus Ex GOTY Edition

Dragonsphere

Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Dungeon Keeper Gold

Dungeon Keeper 2

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard

Flight of the Amazon Queen

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Icewind Dale 2 Complete

Icewind Dale Complete

King's Quest

King's Quest 2 - Romancing the Throne

King's Quest 3 - To Heir is Human

King's Quest 4 - The Perils of Rosella

King's Quest 5 - Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder

King's Quest 6 - Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

King's Quest 7 - The Princeless Bride

King's Quest 8 - Mask of Eternity

La-Mulana

Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut

Lure of the Temptress

Myst Masterpiece Edition

Myst V: End of Ages Limited Edition

Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete

Neverwinter Nights Diamond

Nox

Overlord + Raising Hell

Planescape: Torment

Planetfall

Quest for Glory (includes VGA Remake)

Quest for Glory 2

Quest for Glory 3

Quest for Glory 4

Quest for Glory 5

realMYST

Return to Krondor

Return to Zork

Riven: The Sequel to Myst

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space

Sam & Max Save the World (2007 Original Version)

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Simon the Sorcerer

Simon the Sorcerer 2

Simon the Sorcerer 3D

Space Quest 1 - The Sarien Encounter

Space Quest 2 - Vohaul's Revenge

Space Quest 3 - The Pirates of Pestulon

Space Quest 4 - Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

Space Quest 5 - The Next Mutation

Space Quest 6 - Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier

Stargunner

Syberia

Syberia 2

Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season

Teenagent

The Bard's Tale

The Book of Unwritten Tales

The Book Of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles

The Journeyman Project 1: Pegasus Prime

The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time

The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time

The Last Express

The Legend of Kyrandia (Book One)

The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate (Book Two)

The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge (Book Three)

The Longest Journey

The Temple of Elemental Evil

The Witcher 2: Assassains of Kings Enhanced Edition

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

Torin's Passage

Treasure Adventure Game

Trine Enchanted Edition

Tyrian 2000

Ultima III

Ultima II

Ultima IV

Ultima I

Ultima VII - Serpent Isle + The Silver Seed

Ultima VII - The Black Gate + The Forge of Virtue

Ultima VI

Ultima V

Ultima Underworld I

Ultima Underworld II

Ultima Worlds of Adeventure 2: Martial Dreams

Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar

Ultima 8 Gold Edition

Ultima 9: Ascension

Uru: Complete Chronicles

Wallace and Gromit's Episode 1 Fright of the Bumblebees

Wallace and Gromit's Episode 2 The Last Resort

Wallace and Gromit's Episode 3 Muzzled

Wallace and Gromit's Episode 4 The Bogey Man

Warsow

Worlds of Ultima The Savage Empire

Zork - The Great Underground Empire

Zork II - The Wizard of Frobozz

Zork III - The Dungeon Master

Zork Zero - The Revenge of Megaboz

Zork: Grand Inquisitor

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Now, only these games still work on XP.

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Alone in the Dark 1

Alone in the Dark 2

Alone in the Dark 3

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

Back to the Future: The Game

Baldur's Gate 2 Complete

Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga

Betrayal at Krondor

Betrayal in Antara

Beyond Zork - The Coconut of Quendor

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

Icewind Dale Complete

King's Quest

King's Quest 2 - Romancing the Throne

King's Quest 3 - To Heir is Human

King's Quest 4 - The Perils of Rosella

King's Quest 5 - Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder

King's Quest 6 - Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

King's Quest 7 - The Princeless Bride

King's Quest 8 - Mask of Eternity

Nox

Planescape: Torment

Planetfall

Quest for Glory (includes VGA Remake)

Quest for Glory 2

Quest for Glory 3

Quest for Glory 4

Quest for Glory 5

realMYST

Return to Krondor

Space Quest 1 - The Sarien Encounter

Space Quest 2 - Vohaul's Revenge

Space Quest 3 - The Pirates of Pestulon

Space Quest 4 - Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

Space Quest 5 - The Next Mutation

Space Quest 6 - Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier

The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time

Ultima III

Ultima II

Ultima IV

Ultima I

Ultima VII - Serpent Isle + The Silver Seed

Ultima VII - The Black Gate + The Forge of Virtue

Ultima VI

Ultima V

Ultima Underworld I

Ultima Underworld II

Wallace and Gromit's Episode 1 Fright of the Bumblebees

Wallace and Gromit's Episode 2 The Last Resort

Wallace and Gromit's Episode 3 Muzzled

Wallace and Gromit's Episode 4 The Bogey Man

Zork - The Great Underground Empire

Zork II - The Wizard of Frobozz

Zork III - The Dungeon Master

Zork Zero - The Revenge of Megaboz

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That means that these games no longer work on XP.

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A New Beginning: Final Cut

Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition

Beneath a Steel Sky

Beyond Good & Evil

Dark Fall 2: Lights Out

Dark Fall: The Journal

Deus Ex GOTY Edition

Dragonsphere

Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Dungeon Keeper Gold

Dungeon Keeper 2

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard

Flight of the Amazon Queen

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Icewind Dale 2 Complete

La-Mulana

Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut

Lure of the Temptress

Myst Masterpiece Edition

Myst V: End of Ages Limited Edition

Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete

Neverwinter Nights Diamond

Overlord + Raising Hell

Return to Zork

Riven: The Sequel to Myst

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space

Sam & Max Save the World (2007 Original Version)

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Simon the Sorcerer

Simon the Sorcerer 2

Simon the Sorcerer 3D

Stargunner

Syberia

Syberia 2

Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season

Teenagent

The Bard's Tale

The Book of Unwritten Tales

The Book Of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles

The Journeyman Project 1: Pegasus Prime

The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time

The Last Express

The Legend of Kyrandia (Book One)

The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate (Book Two)

The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge (Book Three)

The Longest Journey

The Temple of Elemental Evil

The Witcher 2: Assassains of Kings Enhanced Edition

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

Torin's Passage

Treasure Adventure Game

Trine Enchanted Edition

Tyrian 2000

Ultima Worlds of Adeventure 2: Martial Dreams

Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar

Ultima 8 Gold Edition

Ultima 9: Ascension

Uru: Complete Chronicles

Warsow

Worlds of Ultima The Savage Empire

Zork: Grand Inquisitor

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Why is it that GOG has made these games impossible to work on XP now? They used to. And, since I am stuck with XP now, I feel that I have been cheated since I can no longer play these games.:(

Most probably GOG hasn't intentionally made the games incompatible with XP, but the games have become such while GOG has made changes to the game, even changes including making it run better on modern Windows versions.

I e.g. tried Icewind Dale 2 (GOG) on Windows XP, and it had some nasty graphics corruption problems. I presume they are due to those ddraw fixes or such that GOG has included in the game to make it run better on modern Windowses.

It may also be that many games have become incompatible with XP when GOG has integrated the games more with Galaxy.

Anyway, if this becomes too much of a problem to you, consider trying out Linux to play those games that fail on XP for you. At least the older GOG Windows games seem to run quite well with WINE in Linux, e.g. now I am trying out Planescape Torment (both the classic and Enhanced Editions), and they both run flawlessly in Linux. Before them I finished Icewind Dale 2 on Linux.

You can even install Linux beside your Windows XP. I have a couple older PCs which have Windows XP and Linux running side by side, works fine.

Have you tried contacting support with your issue?

What is the problem with Dungeon Keeper for you?
I just tried installing it for the first time and it works here on win xp sp3 with all the updates that were available for win xp sp3 some time ago.
Also what kind of graphic you have?
Also overlord worked for me also but i had to stop since at some areas it lagged too much probably because of my weak graphic chip.

Not sure if you are sarcastic or serious, but I don't think any or at least many of those games support XP anymore.

I e.g. checked the gamecard for Icewind Dale 2 Complete, and it supports Windows 7, 8 and 10, and that's it.

Contacting support will just mean they point out to him that XP is not supported, period. And I am not really expecting the support to waste more time either. It isn't feasible for them to support XP at this point anymore, when it has been out of support for so long.

I was going to guess a galaxy.dll that has calls that don't work in XP. Or, as timppu said, it could be that there was an update required to the files to make it work better on Windows 10, which broke compatibility with XP.

Some of them appear to work through DosBox or ScummVM; you can still find versions of these that work under Windows XP, so with a bit of tinkering you should be able to make them work yourself.

Unfortunately, as XP has been out of support since 2014, and I'm not running it on a VM, I can't check any of these to ascertain whether it's a GoG problem or a your machine problem. I'm guessing that you didn't take the sensible precaution of downloading all your installers when you originally bought them?

Other than that, I'd suggest that you should probably think about upgrading. Running XP in 2021 isn't the most sensible thing to be doing (it has been out of support for some time and is a security risk). I would suggest getting Windows 10, or if you don't have the money for it and are able to learn a different operating system, Linux is an option (although I'd caution that if you're struggling to get DosBox/ScummVM games running on XP, moving to a whole different ecosystem might be a step too far)

What version of XP are you using?

Most if not all of those games that are Windows only work on Linux in Windows XP or Windows 7 mode enabled for compatibility.

At a recent Quake 3 LAN event I met a few ppl running Windows XP Black/Royale Noir. They had Steam installed and were running games like L4D2, Portal 2, CS:GO and the like without issue. It suppose to get community patches and such. Maybe that can help you.

For DOSBox games, you can just copy the .exe and .dll files from another version of DOSBox that works in XP and launch the game just fine. It’s what I did with recent Ziggurat releases now that all I have is an old Windows XP laptop for the summer. :)

- I'm not running XP so I can't test your list, but games like Flight of the Amazon Queen, Kings Quests. Legend of Kyrandia, Lure of the Temptress, Myst Masterpiece, Return to Zork, Riven, Space Quests, Teenagent, etc, all work fine under ScummVM (which has an XP specific version). You may need to simply download that XP-friendly version and add the games data files manually to that via the "Add Game..." button (ie, have one central ScummVM for XP install instead of the GOG way of bundling ScummVM per game).

- Same for 16-bit DOS games, which generally can't be "broken" by having 64-bit Galaxy API calls added to them, there's literally no reason at all why they wouldn't work under DOSBox.

- For The Longest Journey, try downloading ResidualVM. Edit: Since v2.5, ScummVM now supports it natively.

- For Deus Ex, try using Kentie's Launcher v5.3 (v6.0 and newer are Vista-W10 only but older v5.3 is XP compatible). Failing that, one of the workarounds for getting the Steam version DRM-Free is to patch it with the old retail disc patch.

- If the problem is it won't install, you can use InnoExtract to "unzip" the GOG installer (it's XP compatible) to access the files.

Don't use desktop shortcut, go to game folder and use "launch etc etc" to open it

They're focused on games that run on modern machines, so they may add fixes that break compatibility on older machines or they just drop "XP" from the "Works On" page. They aren't testing on XP machines anymore of course.

The DOS games almost certainly still work on XP, and probably a lot of original copies of those games.

Riven is an interesting one because when they changed it from dosbox to scummvm they unnecessarily increased the file size of images for no good reason.

then they should keep the last known working version for these systems otherwise people will have to travel to seaworld to find copies of old games. The irony being is they have to sift through gog ones some idiots have stuck there.

I remember at one point Microsoft screwed compatibility for certain 32bit programs.

Aside from emulation, not sure how to get around that issue.

If making the games compatible with newer Windows makes them incompatible with older systems... why doesn't GOG just keep the last version compatible with the older system available for download as an alternative?

I'd guess effort is the main problem. The subset of potential users who are still on XP is very small (compare to Windows 7, which is shrinking). Hosting two versions will lead to support issues. Largely the following scenarios:

- Someone using XP can't get a game working and contacts support. Support has to spend time explaining that Windows XP is not a supported OS, and potentially gets into an argument along the lines of "well, why are you hosting an XP compatible download then?"
- Someone is using Windows 10 and has issues with the game installed because they've installed the older version that has XP support but not a fix for modern windows. Additional diagnosis step to establish which version of the installer the user is using.

Admittedly these can to a lesser extent happen today, but based on my experience of the average GoG user, both are going to happen more. Plus, additional hosting fees from having more downloaders (this might already be incurred as I don't use Galaxy, so don't know how rollback works).

To be honest, I'd say that the onus is on the user in this case. As the installers are DRM free, the user should have archived them when XP was supported and they were guaranteed to work. Let's say Microsoft change tack and release Windows 11 tomorrow. If I had no intention of ever upgrading, I would download my GoG installers and back them up locally to ensure I have copies that always work. I'd certainly do this before GoG withdrew support for Windows 10.