Hello! I’m looking for any game recommendations on GOG – especially anything that’s on sale! Tell me about your favorite few games that you have on GOG, or maybe some gems in the rough out there. I’ve seen a few threads on Steam lately, so it feels appropriate to me to look for some love on one of the smaller game systems. I’ll mention a couple of my favorites, but feel free to mention anything you like!
Rimworld - An alien-planet civilization sim kind of game. I’ve gotten many hours out of this one. And with some mods and DLC… oh man. I might be ashamed to see how many hours I’ve played it.
Northgard - I think you’d call this an RTS. Super rad, wish it was longer. I’ll swing back around and re-play the whole campaign sometime. I just now noticed they have an expansion pack, so maybe I’ll get that soon.
Sid Meier’s Railroads - Railroad sim. Another one that I’ve dumped a ridiculous number of hours into.
Faster Than Light (FTL) - rogue-like spaceship game?! I don’t know how to describe it, but I loved it.
I also recently picked up Starship Troopers: Terran Command and Graveyard Keeper, but haven’t taken the time to play them, yet. I have Stardew Valley on GOG – Not an all-time favorite, but definitely got my money’s worth and had fun with it.
A few I’ve had my eye on but would love to hear outside opinions: Patron, Space Crew, Mars Base. They look interesting, and probably any little nudge would get me to buy and try.
Oh man, there are so many great games if you’re willing to play old stuff (although it looks like the summer sale is over):
Still on Sale
- System Shock (remake)
- Psychonauts 2
- Myst 25th Anniversary Collection
- Death Road to Canada
- Alan Wake
- Alan Wake’s New Nightmare
- Project Zomboid
Classics
- Jazz Jackrabbit Collection
- Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection
- Contra Anniversary Collection
- System Shock: Enhanced Edition-
- System Shock 2
- Grim Fandango Remastered (I can’t recommend this one enough; best game ever)
- Mortal Kombat 1+2+3
- The Settlers 2: Gold Edition (this one is also fantastic)
- Theme Hospital
- Dungeon Keeper Gold
- Dungeon Keeper 2
- SimCity 2000 Special Edition
- SimCity 3000 Unlimited
- SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
I love RimWorld, and I love DRM-free, but RimWorld on GoG is a mistake.
Instead, buy RimWorld directly from Ludeon. Then you get both DRM-free files from them (to enjoy in the fallout bunker), AND a steam key (so that you can easily enjoy the metric boatloads of modding content on the steam workshop).
You can usually pick up Terraria when it’s on sale for about $5. I haven’t played it in forever but I enjoyed it at the time and apparently it’s only improved since.
Oh my gosh, if you like Metroidvania stuff, play Ori and the Blind Forest!
If you’re a fan of Star Trek, they have quite a few excellent titles. Personal favs are Armada II (RTS), Bridge Commander (Ship Sim, even better with mods!), and Elite Force (you’re a Security officer on Voyager, FPS made by the Quake developers.
I literally just posted about a few of these in another thread. :)
Decent: Freespace and Freespace 2 are the best Space Fighter - Dog-Fighting Tactics games I’ve played. They still hold up to this day. And the voice-acting is great.
Dungeon Keeper and Dungeon Keeper 2 are also solid games, although more in the silly corner. Dig out a dungeon, build rooms to attracts creatures of the dark, train them and go to war against the foul knights and kings of the overworld.
The OG Fallout games are always worth a mention. Fallout and Fallout 2.
If you’re into old disturbing point and click puzzle games Sanitarium is a classic.
Or a bit more laid-back storytelling with mysteries, maybe? Then Oxenfree is worth looking into.
In the FPS category I recommend the Metro games. Well, the two first ones anyway. Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light. Stealth is optional, but advised. :p
I’d also be amiss not to mention Soma. It’s a scary game and a solid mindfuck at the same time. Approach with caution.
That’s my list for now. I hope there’s something in there you can use. :)
The Freespace games are legendary in that genre. Probably second only to TIE Fighter.
If you’re thinking about the Fallouts, don’t forget all the Infinity Engine games (Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, Icewind Dale 1 and 2, Planescape Torment), and Neverwinter Nights, and Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2.
And Shadowrun (Returns, Dragonfall, Hong Kong).
There’s a universe of amazing isometric RPGs out there.
Indeed. I just ran through what I had on GOG.
How do you play fallout 2? I always have weird double-screen with wrong colors everywhere. Tried different video cards too.
GOG’s version works for me straight out of the box. Other than that, there’s the High-Res patch and the general Patch. They are quite important on modern machines.
If you play on Windows, make sure both patches are installed. Then screw around with the High-Res patcher a bit, hopefully you can find the right setting. It will probably take a few attempts.
If you play on Linux, I sadly can’t help you as I never got Fallout to work in it. :/
Interesting. I could never get it working on windows 7 nor 10.
Hmm… Compatibility mode, maybe?
I remember having trouble with Win 7 as well.
gog isn’t my main platform for games (mainly because there’s no good support for steamdeck) but some games I’ve played that I liked are:
- A hat in time 3D platformer
- FAR Lone Sails Vehicle adventure
- Firewatch Walking sim
- Frostpunk City sim survival
- Ghostrunner Cyberpunk first person parkour slasher
- Gris Beautiful 2D puzzle platformer
- Gorogoa Beautifully illustrated and imaginative puzzles
- Hellblade Dark fantasy action
- Night in the woods 2D platform adventure
- Oxenfree Supernatural thriller adventure
- What Remains of Edith Finch Walking sim
Some of the most popular games are on GOG - Tomb Raider (classic) series, Prince of Persia series, Baldur’s Gate series, The Elder Scrolls series (including Skyrim) and several others. Modern titles apart from The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077 include Horizon Zero Dawn, A Plague Tale, Disco Elysium and Psychonauts 2. But perhaps the best known titles on GOG are indie platformers like Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest and Terraria.
I just picked up The Last Stand: Aftermath, and have been really enjoying playing that game.
A few of my absolute favorites
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Battletech
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Witcher 3
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Parkitect
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SWAT 4 is still an excellent tactical shooter the likes of which we don’t see anymore, short of Ready or Not, or Doorkickers, if you count that.
Spirit Farer & Machinarium are must haves
Loom is one of the greatest games of all time, I’ll die on that hill. Such a shame the sequels never materialized.
It’s a bit rough around the edges, but you (or someone else) might enjoy Genesis: Alpha One
You fly a space ship (well, mine usually look more like stations that can also move), across different life-infested solar systems. The main gimmick is that you build the station yourself out of different modules.
So when your scientists come back from planet surfaces, with some spores on their suits, you might find pockets of ewww hiding in the vents of the station you made yourself. You have/unlock multiple times ways to make sure that the infestation stays relatively isolated to, say, the landing bay. But even with those, you’ll find yourself doing a lot of first-person vent-crawling to figure out where that disgusting crab-thing just came from.
Plus, it’s a rogue-lite with some permanently unlockable progression. There are multiple player factions you can unlock and there’s a NG+ mode, but I found myself not replaying it too much (even though my one played campaign was quite fun). Still, I sunk a good 16-20 hours into it, I think.
Swat 4 Gold
Tactical FPS where you command a SWAT team in some really atmospheric missions. The gold standard for games of the sort. Ready or Not is a modern game that takes a lot of influence from it.
Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 enhanced editions. Several hundred hours of quality RPG. Bought them several times already
I have all the Infinity Engine games on… so many platforms. And CD. And DVD. And iOS, and Google Play…
