Another chance for you to score some goodies, and check out some good discounts with the GOG Summer Sale 2023 now live.
First up they have a giveaway for the story-based precision platformer Sunblaze. You can grab a copy of that until June 13th at 10PM UTC. To claim a copy just be logged in and scroll down the GOG homepage for the giveaway banner. GOG also said they have five more game giveaways planned over the duration of the sale.
You can also claim a copy of their Cyberpunk 2077 & Phantom Liberty Goodies Collection which has posters, wallpapers, concept art and more.
A fan of classic retro gaming? GOG just put up the Contra Anniversary Collection that has Contra (Arcade), Super Contra, Contra (NA), Contra (JP), Super C, Contra III: The Alien Wars, Operation C, Contra Hard Corps, Super Probotector Alien Rebels and Probotector.
GOG also have their usual curated lists you can look through like:
- Cyberpunk essentials collection – dive into cyberpunk themed games and receive a Gift (e.g. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Digital Deluxe Edition, Ghostrunner, Neon Abyss).
- Classics – Good Old Games that are near and dear to hearts (e.g. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Diablo + Hellfire, SWAT 4 – Gold Edition).
- Indie – discover hidden games that might have swept under your radar (e.g. This War of Mine: Complete Edition, Little Nightmares, Outlast).
- RPG – embark on a great adventure full of rich storytelling (e.g. EVERSPACE™ 2, Dragon Age™: Origins - Ultimate Edition, ELEX II).
- Best games of each decade – the name of the collection speaks for itself (e.g. King's Quest 1+2+3, Dungeon Keeper™ 2, STAR WARS™ Empire at War: Gold Pack).
If you need help managing GOG games on Linux either Native Linux games or Windows games run through Wine, you can look to the Heroic Games Launcher which just recently had a big update too!
The GOG Summer Sale 2023 ends July 3rd, 2023, 10 PM UTC.
Let us know in the comments if you pick up anything good and give you latest recommendations.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: sourpuzAh shit, here we go again...Quoting: InstallQuoting: 14Too many Windows games. GOG doesn't help make playing Windows games on Linux easy in any way.Just scroll down and use the filter for linux games only.
Problem is, GOG's Linux installers are obsolete and haven't been updated in years, as GOG has officially stopped supporting Linux. Lots of the installers don't work. I mostly use the Windows versions via Lutris/Wine.
Source?
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Quoting: sourpuzQuoting: InstallQuoting: 14Too many Windows games. GOG doesn't help make playing Windows games on Linux easy in any way.Just scroll down and use the filter for linux games only.
Problem is, GOG's Linux installers are obsolete and haven't been updated in years, as GOG has officially stopped supporting Linux. Lots of the installers don't work. I mostly use the Windows versions via Lutris/Wine.
The installers work fine for me. Not every game is perfect but you can say the same for windows since I have an additional windows machine and several installers dont work for it either without adding some tweaks of your own. gog has not officially stopped supporting linux, games are still releasing and you can check the upcoming sections which shows you what linux games are upcoming. I don't like or use wine since I prefer native versions only, I find it to be ghetto.
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Hmm, yes, I rather like GOG's GTK+ game installer program. It doesn't like my styling much, but it's navigable and functional.
For me, when GoG has a native Linux game I want, it's a royal treat. That means I can even run it on my "From Scratch" system (no 32 bit userspace and therefore no Steam)
For me, when GoG has a native Linux game I want, it's a royal treat. That means I can even run it on my "From Scratch" system (no 32 bit userspace and therefore no Steam)
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Quoting: CyrilQuoting: sourpuzAh shit, here we go again...Quoting: InstallQuoting: 14Too many Windows games. GOG doesn't help make playing Windows games on Linux easy in any way.Just scroll down and use the filter for linux games only.
Problem is, GOG's Linux installers are obsolete and haven't been updated in years, as GOG has officially stopped supporting Linux. Lots of the installers don't work. I mostly use the Windows versions via Lutris/Wine.
Source?
Well, I don't want to spread disinformation, but I've read it (can't remember where, so I admit it might be incorrect).
But just look at the store page for every Linux game, the only supported Linux versions are massively outdated (Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04). I'm pretty sure I remember they publically stated that they would continue selling Linux games, but couldn't officially support them due to their revenue problems and the large number of different distributions. Thus, no support for everything after 18.04.
Many installers still work, sure, but just a while ago I had one that asked for an older openSSL version, it didn't work with newer revisions.
I like GOG and still buy games there, but as I said, I've had more luck with Wine/Lutris and the Windows installers.
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Just look at what anybody says for "supported Linux versions". Steam still links against libraries for Ubuntu 12. If you believed developers' Linux system requirements, you'd think old Ubuntu was the only thing viable, when it many cases it's not even correct, something may bomb out on that old library stack now as things have been updated but not thoroughly tested on those old environments.
If your stuff doesn't work because of things like older SSL, blame your distributor for not supplying OpenSSL 1.1 for compatibility. Even if they don't want you linking against it, they should be supplying compat libraries. (OpenSSL 3.x is neither binary, nor source compatible).
Distributors don't want to support all this (funny how you don't hear community distros whinging) so they want to shift this to applications running in containers. Make it everybody else's problem but theirs.
This is also where Steam comes in handy with its runtimes.
Supported and working are two different things. The latter is what counts.
P.S. Of course, for really old native games you might have to drop some libraries in the game directory, or have some old libraries found using LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But you can still do that.
Last edited by Grogan on 20 June 2023 at 6:26 pm UTC
If your stuff doesn't work because of things like older SSL, blame your distributor for not supplying OpenSSL 1.1 for compatibility. Even if they don't want you linking against it, they should be supplying compat libraries. (OpenSSL 3.x is neither binary, nor source compatible).
Distributors don't want to support all this (funny how you don't hear community distros whinging) so they want to shift this to applications running in containers. Make it everybody else's problem but theirs.
This is also where Steam comes in handy with its runtimes.
Supported and working are two different things. The latter is what counts.
P.S. Of course, for really old native games you might have to drop some libraries in the game directory, or have some old libraries found using LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But you can still do that.
Last edited by Grogan on 20 June 2023 at 6:26 pm UTC
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