GOG are making a big splash with "The GOG Sale" which is live now until September 5th, 10 PM UTC. Time to pick up a bunch of DRM free goodies?
You can also grab a free copy of STASIS, one of the earlier games from The Brotherhood before the likes of CAYNE and BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION. You've got around 50 hours left at time of publishing to grab STASIS. No Linux build of it on GOG though but you can try with Wine.
Every hour a new big deal will also appear on the GOG homepage, so you might want to check back often.
Here's a bunch of useful lists they've put up for the sale too:
- 1 USD deals
- Highest Discounts
- Historically Cheap
- Games you can't play (yet)
- Free Games
- Bestsellers
- Classics
STASIS isn't the only giveaway though, they said there will be at least 3 more giveaways until the sale ends. There's also a number of new to GOG landing over the sale too like Dink Smallwood HD for free and the Mafia Trilogy.
If you're going to try some of their Windows games with Wine you can try the Heroic Games Launcher.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
BlackBloodRum Aug 24, 2022
Quoting: eroldruQuoting: StoneColdSpiderOh nice..... I will get some free games and then forget GOG exists again like usual......
honestly that's sad. I love gog's concept and the drm-free stuff, but they don't give out a Linux launcher, have no controller support for their own gog launcher and are (seemingly) not doing anything to be a bit more steam deck friendly. I've had my SD since Q1 and have yet to play any gog games.
For what it's worth, it's really not that difficult to use GOG games on Steam Deck with controller support. You can install them whichever way you feel necessary (such as with lutris, there's even an option to install without a script which just downloads and installs in a prefix or a manual custom prefix) and add it as a steam shortcut.
Once it's a steam shortcut you can set the controller options and the deck treats it just like any other game, so you can easily set up your controller input etc. Heck, sometimes steam will even recognise the game if it's also available on steam and named the same, then you can just download a pre-made controller layout via the menu and just play.
I've done this a few times
I really don't get the argument that people want a launcher for each store they use - I would much prefer to have a single launcher on the deck (namely, the built in one) as opposed to needing a different launcher for each game. I mean how many launchers do people want?
Games sometimes come with their own extra launchers too:
UPlay
Origin
R* Lanucher
etc etc etc
So you'll launch say, Assassin's Creed on steam's launcher just for it to then launch the UPlay launcher, which then launches the game from that launcher instead. I don't understand why people want it this way.
For me I prefer just one launcher if possible.
IMO: No launcher is a fair trade off for no (sometimes very invasive) DRM. It's nice to not be burdened with yet another bloody launcher.
Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 24 August 2022 at 1:56 pm UTC
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