After their special Patron supporters voted, GOG have placed the classic Nox into their Preservation Program with a fresh set of fixes. This comes shortly after GOG announced they're beginning to provide box art to make your own fancier backups.
What is Nox? Released originally in the year 2000, it had an interesting mixture of character classes and gameplay differences between them, along with a multiplayer mode that made it quite well received back in the day. It was often compared with the original Diablo too.
In the news post GOG said:
"This release strips out the outdated compatibility shim entirely, closing off a recurring source of conflicts on its own. Separately, it adds the GOG DXWrapper, so Nox can actually display properly on modern machines. It also adds a custom widescreen resolution, selectable directly from the game's options menu. The original installer used to tell a bit of Nox's lore partway through setup – we've archived that segment as a downloadable video, available in the Goodies section (not the full installer, just this piece of it). We've validated stability and verified compatibility with both Windows 10 and 11.
One of the biggest additions comes from bringing back a feature many assumed was gone for good, allowing for online multiplayer through XWIS.net servers. Previous GOG releases never included Westwood Online Service (WOL) support in the first place, so there was nothing on our end to make that connection happen. With WOL dependencies restored, along with the correct registry entries, the GOG version of Nox can now actually reach XWIS.net, ready for a new generation of players to duel it out."
GOG are now holding a third vote for their Patrons on what game will come next between: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, The 11th Hour, Harvester, Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet, and The Legacy: Realm of Terror.
You can run GOG games on SteamOS / Linux with the likes of the Heroic Games Launcher. Eventually we should see GOG Galaxy arrive on Linux too.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Edit: It's on sale right now for 77% discount, so I just grabbed it!
Last edited by Luxuria on 11 Sep 2026 at 10:31 am UTC
hardpenguin 11 Sep 2026
Quoting: hardpenguinThis game is much more playable on Linux with OpenNoxThis!
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Caldathras 11 Sep 2026
Quoting: hardpenguinThis game is much more playable on Linux with OpenNoxThe last time I tried, I couldn't get the Linux version to work. I had to resort to installing the Proton version in the Nox prefix.
I see from rea987's link that they have an AppImage, a Binary archive; a Flatpak and a Snap version now with very clear installation instructions for all four. I might have to give it another try.
When I migrated to Linux, I couldn't get it to work in wine, so I gave up (I already finished it anyway). When GoG started selling it, I bought another license hoping theirs would work better. I eventually troubleshot the issue and found a solution that also resolved the original issue with CD-ROM version, so it turned out to be a waste to buy another license.
Of course I eventually got two more licenses through various giveaways and I now have four licenses for the same game.
Now I occasionally run it in opennox, but I don't get the same feeling as the first time I ran it. Not sure if its due to the age of the game, not feeling the first excitement, or opennox or wine makes it feel slightly different (not necessarily better or worse). Anyway, great fun game.
Avehicle7887 12 Sep 2026
Quoting: elmapulEA and preservation at the same sentence? really? im surprised they are trying to do the right thingEA had nothing to do with this. GOG are doing most of the work (if not all).
Quoting: Avehicle7887i know but the fact that EA allowed then to do that is still niceQuoting: elmapulEA and preservation at the same sentence? really? im surprised they are trying to do the right thingEA had nothing to do with this. GOG are doing most of the work (if not all).
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