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GOG Galaxy 2.0 enters open beta, collates your games so you don’t need to juggle a billion launchers

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Who needs another PC game launcher? Absolutely goddamned nobody, that’s who! Despite that, I’m going to recommend you install one, because GOG Galaxy 2.0 is now in open beta, and unlike GOG Galaxy when it first launched, it’s not complete and utter trash.

No longer just the place where you have your Witcher 3 installation for prosperity, GOG Galaxy 2.0 does a handy job of collating and unifying all of your existing launchers. There’s support for nearly everything, including Epic Games Store, Steam, Origin and uPlay, along with community-driven additions – so it can support things like Rockstar’s launcher. The only launcher I can’t get it to play nicely with right now is Battlenet. You can even add in emulators.

Anyway, it’s all quite lovely, putting all of your games – along with your achievements, friends and the like in one place. It very nearly makes the other launchers invisible, with just a simple notification even letting you know that you’re running a game from Steam, for example.

It’s also super easy to get going. Just download it, click the button at the top to add games and friends, connect the required accounts, and you’ve got a nice, neatly collated library of all of your games, which you can filter between launchers, separate installed and uninstalled games.

GOG also promises that they’re not just using GOG Galaxy 2.0 as some way to spy on you and your gaming habits, so that’s nice. I like it, but if you have no interest in a collated library or having to install yet another launcher, you’re free to ignore it completely.

Or grab it here.

Last Updated: December 10, 2019

15 Comments

  1. Yozzie

    December 10, 2019 at 12:25

    Tell me that the time played will register with steam if I open it through GOG and I’ll be sold

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      December 10, 2019 at 12:25

      Would anyone buy you tho?

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      • Yozzie

        December 10, 2019 at 12:25

        You got me in a bargain bin and you loved it.

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    • Geoffrey Tim

      December 10, 2019 at 12:25

      It does, because it still runs through steam, but it becomes “invisible”

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      • Yozzie

        December 10, 2019 at 12:38

        Then i’ll give it a bash tomorrow when I have power when i am home after work. Tonight though it’s load shed and Switch.

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  2. Alien Emperor Trevor

    December 10, 2019 at 12:25

    Having all my GOG & Steam duplicates filtered out will make me happy.

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    • Yozzie

      December 10, 2019 at 12:25

      Damnit. That reminds me, if I switch to this I will have GOG either way. And I never bought Jazz Jackrabbit when it was on sale last week.

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        December 10, 2019 at 12:26

        How can you not buy CliffyB’s best game?

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        • Yozzie

          December 10, 2019 at 12:26

          Gears fans are coming to your house tonight…

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          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            December 10, 2019 at 12:38

            At least it’s not all four Lawbreakers fans.

          • Yozzie

            December 10, 2019 at 12:38

            All dev’s are allowed at least one poop game. Just look at Bathesda… only problem it’s not poop it’s diarrhea.

          • HvR

            December 10, 2019 at 12:56

            They are probably going to take the wrong left turn and end up the Nigerian drug complex.

  3. Yondaime

    December 10, 2019 at 12:26

    Let me understand this, it went from being complete and utter trash to being recommended?! what black magic is this?! I must try it later….if there’s power that is…

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  4. InCognito

    December 10, 2019 at 12:44

    Installed it last night, I really like it. Hopefully they keep adding more features. Wouldn’t mind if they allowed a search feature through every store to compare prices.

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      December 10, 2019 at 13:02

      If it’s as moddable as they claim I wouldn’t be surprised to see that feature getting added by someone.

      Reply

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