I think they simply lack the money, Linux gaming just isn't a big enough market (yet). They're doing sale after sale recently, I think the platform is on the way out. Which is sad, I've always kinda liked GOG.
I tend to buy older games that work via emulator/ScummVM, then it doesn't matter that there's no Linux support out of the box. I used to use Lutris with GOG windows games, but I've become a bit suspicious of some of those Lutris install scripts.

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I've been following this for a while. I'm not a huge JRPG fan, but this just looks amazing.

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Quoting: TcheyMy account on Steam is active since 2008. It says i have 1000+ games, and 500+ wishlisted, and i just reached 15 000 items viewed in my Discovery Queue. I played i think 95% of these games at least a few hours (and of course for some, much more). Some games are just remains from bundle i never cared to try.

Respect!
I've got 201. I think I'll get maybe one game, got some point & click adventures in the GOG sale. So maybe one 3D action romp. Gotta make use of that GPU.

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Quoting: GuestJust as something relevent to current energy prices, my main daily system is no longer x86_64. It's AArch64, specficially a Raspberry Pi 4. Steam is not supported there at all, so I simply cannot use Steam games for daily casual gaming right now. Instead I turn to dosbox for a lot of my gaming needs - and there are a lot of old games running through dosbox! (side note: I just found out Aliens vs Predator, the 1999 game, will run on it too, nice!) This is where GOG really shines, and while true I need to unpack a few things, it's still less hassle than if I were forced to use some game management tool.

I do boot the x86_64 desktop on occasion, but never leave it on for long. The cut to the energy bill of using a Pi4 instead has already paid for the Pi4 itself.

That's actually a great idea! How do you manage with a Pi as your desktop? Are you running your OS from a SD card or USB 3? Sadly, I never got the latter to work.

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Ah, I'm happy with Fedora, too. For me it was their clean implementation of Gnome, which I've somehow come to love.

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Lutris has become pretty decent at running lots of Win-only games from GOG, so I recommend taking a look there, at least when there's a sale.

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I'm a sucker for a good, dark sci-fi story. Keeping my eye on this!

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Thanks for doing these, Hamish, I enjoy them immensely! Reminds me of running SuSE Professional on my Celeron 533 back in the day.

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Yes, that's my thought, it looks interesting. And it seems they put a lot of work into it. That's why this seemed such a weird gaffe.

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Quoting: sourpuzHmmm, am I the only thinking that their voiceover guy somehow borked up the name of the game, of all things? I'm hearing "River Realms".

Might be intentional? In the context he could be referring to the area before it became desolate. But that's just me guessing...

In any case, the game looks quite interesting to me. A bit like Caravan from Daedalic, but with a combat system that seems to be more to my taste. The setting also has a certain Dark Sun vibe to it, which I really enjoyed playing Pen&Paper.

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Hmmm, am I the only thinking that their voiceover guy somehow borked up the name of the game, of all things? I'm hearing "River Realms".

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