When they released Witcher 2 on Linux (CDPR) some top hat (sorry I don't remember who) did not like the feedback from the players and used it as reasons to not support Linux on subsequent titles. One hope it is not the same guy that bought GOG.
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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Ah yes, when they get the stupid runner on all platforms, it will be a great excuse to cut the standalone installers.
GOG's installers work great with Wine as do the games themselves. If you desperately need a launcher before you can even consider them, you can use Heroic Games Launcher - in fact I'd prefer if they throw their weight behind it than on Galaxy. A match made in heaven.
I guess the other good thing is GOG is not a US company, they're based in Poland. No tax money going to the American regime and their shenanigans I never asked for.
One day, Heroic stopped working for me, it was flagged and blocked by my network. They injected affiliated links that redirected to weird domains, with no warning on changelogs. I was worried of a man in the middle attack and I investigated the PRs. They did not even document it properly on the commits, but it was intentional, you could see the line changing in the code made by one of the main devs.
Nothing against them making some money, I would have opened a rule for them. But doing this kind of thing without notifying people is shady at least. Later I found a message from the devs in one social network(mastodon maybe?) about adding it, but that is hardly notifying your user base. Subsequently, more people reported the client not working and they addressed it. It was not only about network rule that blocked most users, Heroic could not reach some GOG services without https and for some reason the weird redirects were forcing the route through http.
With some wording, they made some users believe they had "team up with GOG". But they just signed for the affiliated program that anyone can sign for, GOG had no idea who they were and were not officially endorsing them. Quite often you see on lemmy people arguing like GOG is behind Heroic, or that Heroic is an official GOG store.
Since then (early 2024), I stopped recommending Heroic to people and moved to other options (wine, lutris, bottles). I am sure it was an honest mistake. But it will take a while to recover the trust.
All problems aside, I still prefer an open-source solution that I can investigate this type of thing easily over a closed blob that I have to reverse engineer and sniff packages.
Look harder.
Heroic Games Launcher is pretty good if you just need to play the games from GOG.
Some engagement would still be good. For example without Galaxy some games have reduced functionality like no PvP or map updates (Northgard).
It's been years since they last promised a Linux client.
You don't need a client, you just download Linux games from their site and run them.
That was fine when all their games were 20 years old and didn't need to be patched every couple days.
Now that is a very good point.
It would be nice if the supported a standard container image to have more compatibility with more distros
and that's something that we'll be looking at.
Meanwhile, steam is over here cornering the market
I think you underestimate how much money valve has, and how little GOG has.
Itch has way less money yet supports Linux.
The beauty is that valve has opensourced a shit ton of what they done
What could they even do? The games work fine on linux
Not having a native first party linux launcher means no cloud saves or whatever other shit the launcher does (I don't use it because they don't have one) which means no feature parity which means publishers won't put linux builds on gog even if they have one on steam. This is the problem I had with Battle Chasers: Nightwar.
Official support for proton and official client for gog galaxy or just helping with Dev of heroic
A nothingburger