The DRM-free sales platform GOG starts its Summer Sale. We’ve picked out a few highlights from the more than 2,500 games on offer.
What started out as a rescue operation for the game gems of the past has grown over time into a large and popular sales platform. Today, GOG.com, which actually stands for “Good Old Games”, not only offers “old” games that have been made runnable again, but also increasingly modern titles – as long as the publishers are willing to remove the copy protection measures for the DRM-free platform.
For the just-launched big Summer Sale, which runs for a whole three weeks from 6 to 27 June, another big publisher has now decided to take this step: SEGA. As the first game from their catalogue, they are now offering you first-class survival horror with all DLCs for around 12 euros with the Alien: Isolation Collection. Two Point Hospital and the anniversary edition of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine will follow shortly.
As usual, there are also gifts: Until June 8 at 3 p.m., the adventure classic Sanitarium can be dusted off for 0 euros. At the time, In the course of the sale, four more gifts are waiting for you.
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If you’re more in the mood for a shooter or don’t mind the DRM, here’s a reminder that Epic is still offering Wolfenstein: The New Order for free for a short time:
Highlights from the GOG Summer Sale
Alien: Isolation
(Genre: Action –Developer: Creative Assembly –Release: 7. October 2014 (PC) –Price: 12 Euro (Collection with all DLCs reduced by 75 percent; base game 10 Euro) –Offer valid until: June 27, 2022)
The space station Sevastopol and the story of Amanda Ripley, the daughter of the tough action heroine from the cult films, has enraptured Alien fans since its release in 2014. Rarely has the atmosphere of a film been transferred so well into a game, with such attention to detail in recreating the environments of the film sets from the 70s as in Alien: Isolation.
When you sneak through rooms full of oversized computer consoles with beige-coloured disguises and big colourful buttons, you immediately feel like you’re on the set of the original film. The emphasis here is on sneaking, though, because although you’ll occasionally find weapons like a pump shotgun or a flamethrower, direct confrontations quickly lead to the early sci-fi grave.
But if you embrace the premise of dodging hostile androids, as well as the deadly alien with the iconic aubergine head, rather than going for the kill at every opportunity, then you’re in for an excellent and truly nerve-wracking story. In it, Amanda goes in search of the Nostromo’s flight recorder 15 years after the disappearance of her mother Ellen.
The game thus joins the ranks of the rare games that not only retell a film story, but continue and complement it in a meaningful way.
Disco Elysium – The Final Cut
(Genre: Role-playing game – Developer: ZA/UM Studio – Release: 15. October 2019 – Price: 14 Euro (reduced by 65 percent) – Offer valid until: 27. June 2022)
Graphically, it may not be a milestone, but once you’ve gotten involved with the deep character system and created your very own (anti-)hero, you’ll suffer and laugh all the more intensely with the down-and-out detective Harry Du Bois during the grandiose crime story.
At first, the game intentionally overtaxes and confuses you with its complex catalogue of 24 abilities and the lizard brain that talks to you, in order to help you even more into the role of the alcoholic Harry. At the beginning, he is just as unable to cope with himself and his environment. Whether it stays that way, and if not, in which direction he changes, is completely up to you.
More exciting offers from the GOG Summer Sale
Besides these two very special experiences, there are of course many more real bargains among the over 2,500 reduced games. We’ve put together a small selection for you.
Just a reminder: It’s part of GOG’s special service to keep aged games running on modern systems and to apply appropriate solutions directly during installation so that you don’t have to fiddle around yourself.
- The Witcher 3 – Wild Hunt: The Game of the Year Edition contains everything you need for a brilliant conclusion to the trilogy around the witcher Geralt, even if you haven’t played the predecessors. (10 Euro, reduced by 80 percent)
- Cyberpunk 2077: Unsurprisingly, CD Projekt’s second big open-world role-playing game series is also available in the sale of the subsidiary GOG. In the futuristic Night City, you fight your way through as a cunning mercenary for hire and try to get along with Keanu Reeve’s voice in your head. (30 Euro, reduced by 50 percent)
- Divinity – Original Sin 2: Developer Larian has a heart for role-players and they prove it among other things in the second part of their Original Sin series, which lets you strive for divinity in a dystopian fantasy world according to all the rules of pen&paper art. (18 euros, 60 percent off)
- SWAT 4 – Gold Edition: If you Ready or Not re still too unfinished, then this SWAT simulation is still one of the best addresses for tactically kicking down doors in a team. (5 Euro, reduced by 50 percent)
- Heroes of Might and Magic 3 – Complete: If there is a timelessly good old game on GOG, then it is probably Heroes 3. Despite its year of manufacture in 1999, it is still considered by fans to be one of the best turn-based strategy games of all time. (2 Euro, reduced by 75 percent)
- Star Wars – Knights of the Old Republic 1+2: No less beloved and still playable are the two legendary role-playing games from the Old Republic, in which you gradually make your mark on the galaxy as either Jedi or Sith in high-class dialogue and battles (3 euros each, reduced by 65 percent)
- Deus Ex – Game of the Year Edition: Long before Cyberpunk or its late sequels, the first Deus Ex took us into a dystopian future and let us experience a gripping agent story in large open levels with the help of numerous abilities and weapons. (1 Euro, reduced by 86 percent)
- Gangsters – Organized Crime: There are far too few manager games anyway and even less of the gangster variety. In Gangsters you hire new thugs, extort protection money, fight with the other families and blow up the town hall if the mayor doesn’t respond. (1 Euro, reduced by 75 percent)
- To The Moon: In this indie adventure game, you fulfil a dying person’s last wish and magically provide them with memories from a life that never existed. (2 Euro, reduced by 80 percent)
The offers in the price comparison
As usual, we’ll finish by supporting you with a comparison table that will help you assess exactly how well the Summer Sale prices compare to the competition.
Do you prefer to complete your collection of legendary classic games during GOG sales or are you more interested in modern titles that can finally be enjoyed without annoying copy protection? Feel free to let us know in the comments!
