It's the infancy of digital distribution. Computer hardware and games are making strides at a dizzying pace – more pixels and more fancy effects demand more processing power with each new day. Yesterday's news is old news, and all eyes are on the next big thing.

So what about all the games we've poured our love into in the past – games like Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment – should we just forget and leave those behind?

And so out of ardor, nostalgia, and sort of out of necessity, Good Old Games is born. A perfect reflection of the past, starting with the games right down to the very soul.

Good Old Games launches in open beta as a legal way to support classics at affordable prices. No longer abandoned, all games would come with tech support and sorcery to get them running on modern PCs. Every game is stuffed with goodies and bonus content that tickles our inner collectors. Everything would be DRM-free – it's only fair after all, and it captures that feeling of ownership on your digital shelf.

The past year has been a reminder that good old games will always have a place on gamers' digital shelves. As GOG turns one year old, the first major publisher joins the DRM-free store. Classics like Beyond Good and Evil, Heroes of Might and Magic, and Rainbow Six are returning with support from Ubisoft!

This is serious progress. It means that our ideas are being recognised by the biggest players in the industry: classic games will always be in demand, fans really care about preserving gaming heritage, and gamers actually appreciate DRM-freedom.

Ubisoft is the first of many, paving the way for treasures like Gabriel Knight, Dungeon Keeper, Alpha Centauri, STAR WARS TIE Fighter, and many more.

Good Old Games is turning two and we have got news for you! Most of the website has been rewritten, we're ready to leave the BETA tag behind, and it's time to unveil some of the biggest, most sought-after classics in gaming history: Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, and Planescape: Torment.

We've always listened to what our community wants to revisit the most, and these three Hasbro classics topped our community wishlist from the very start. A decade has passed, and the RPGs that inspired a generation of gamers and developers would finally be playable again!

But first things first, exiting beta will take significant downtime. And that's just too plain and boring, these games deserve better. So instead we'll announce that Good Old Games is being forced to shut down – that'll get everyone's attention. We still feel bad about that, by the way.

A few days later Good Old Games officially emerged from BETA. The forums are open for business, there's a host of new website features, and the world can finally return to Baldur's Gate – the biggest comeback story in the history of video game comeback stories thus far.

By now we've established that gamers want to support DRM-free gaming. But can a mainstream AAA game succeed without DRM?

Produced by our sister company CD PROJEKT RED, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will put that to the test. If the first day one AAA release on GOG can succeed it'll shape the future of our platform for years to come.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings would sell really well on GOG, second only to Steam and significantly more successful than all other digital platforms.

That alone is proof enough. With the indie renaissance in full swing and prolific (for better or worse), it's the perfect time to bring the DRM-free revolution to indie gaming. By focusing on a selection of handpicked games we can pour all our efforts into supporting independent developers: help them get noticed and offer years of industry experience while providing in-house tech support for games on PC, Mac OS, and eventually Linux.

Soon we're crawling through the mysterious Legend of Grimrock, mulling over Machinarium's mysteries, trying to take on Trine and foraging for food in Don't Starve. We're following all protocol in Papers, Please, noping right out of Amnesia, hacking all the things in Shadowrun Returns, and… well, you get the picture.

With a growing shelf of indies and brand-new releases, "Good Old Games" no longer told the whole story. So we shortened it: GOG. Same soul, bigger shelf. That October, the doors opened to Mac players too.

If a game you bought from us won't run, you shouldn't be the one paying for it. We introduced a 30-day money-back guarantee, a simple promise that our tech wizards would get it working or you'd get your money back.

Shortly after The Witcher 3's release, the unassuming minigame, Gwent, had gained a huge fan following! Fan-made browser-based recreations started popping up, but everyone was eager for a standalone version of the card game.

Combining the talents of CD PROJEKT RED in making extraordinary games and GOG's foray into online experiences, we set out to create GWENT: The Witcher Card Game – our first shot at co-developing a game from the ground up. Three years of work on the GOG Galaxy client and SDK prepared us for the next big adventure.

That's not to say we got distracted from all the important things. 2017 alone accounts for nearly one fourth of the entire GOG catalog, a plentiful and creative year indeed – and by June, the catalog passed 2,000 games. A year of stunning day one releases such as Divinity: Original Sin 2, Cuphead, Night in the Woods, Hollow Knight or Thimbleweed Park, and long-gone classics like Jazz Jackrabbit and SWAT 4.

Ten years prior, we were a beta website with a handful of classics nobody else wanted to touch. Now there are thousands of games on the shelf, from Baldur's Gate to day-one indie darlings, and we still believe what we believed then: when you buy a game, it should be yours.

Westwood's 1997 Blade Runner spent over two decades lost in licensing limbo, a classic you could only remember, not play. Not anymore. Some games are worth chasing like replicants.

In 2013, we promised your money back if a game didn't work. In 2020, we went further: a 30-day refund window for any reason, even if you've already downloaded and played the game.

Every RPG has this moment. The hero has wandered far, the quest log is overflowing, and the party heads back to the village where it all began. So did we. We refocused on the mission we set in 2008: handpicked games, made to last, DRM-free, that are yours to keep.

Yes, Skyrim. On the "Good Old Games" store. For our 14th birthday, one of the most requested games in our community's history finally arrived, DRM-free on PC for the first time ever, with a build made with modders in mind. Fus Ro GOG!

Fifteen years, and the mission got clearer, not fuzzier. Games don't just get old. They break, disappear, and get delisted. Someone has to keep them running, and long ago we decided that someone would be us. Fifteen years later and we're still on the mission!

"Make games live forever" isn't a slogan. It's how we work. For our 16th birthday, we launched the GOG Preservation Program: over 100 classics tested, fixed, and kept running on today's and tomorrow's PCs on our own dime.

GOG joined EFGAMP, the European federation of video game archives, museums and preservation projects, as its first Polish member, bridging the people who sell games and the people who safeguard them.

Museums and archives were one half of the alliance. You're the other. Two weeks after joining EFGAMP, we gave the community wishlist that brought Baldur's Gate back in 2010 a serious upgrade: the GOG Dreamlist. Vote for the classics you want rescued, share your memories of them, and show the world why those games are worth bringing back!

Mods keep games alive. Load orders, missing files, and crashes on launch don't. We teamed up with the creators of some of the best fan projects around and packed their mods right into the game. Browse, click, play. Free and tested.

Back in 1994, we bet that gamers want to support the people behind the games. Thirty years later, you proved it again. GOG Patrons is an optional way to fund our preservation work directly – restoring, fixing, and maintaining the classics that would otherwise fade away. It's not a subscription, and it doesn't change how GOG works. It just gives anyone who wants to help a way to do it, with their name credited on the games they helped keep alive. And since December 2025, more than 10,000 of you have decided to join the effort! Thank you!

Full circle. Michał Kiciński, who co-founded CD PROJEKT in 1994 and GOG in 2008, became GOG's sole owner. It's a new chapter written in the same spirit.

A year after joining EFGAMP, we took a seat at the table. GOG was elected to the EFGAMP board to help shape how Europe protects its gaming heritage.

More than 280 classics and over 1,400 documented fixes, patches, and tweaks. Each of those games would otherwise slowly break on modern hardware. We're not done.