GOG Galaxy

GOG Galaxy is a fully optional client to install, play and update your games. It also offers online multiplayer, achievements, chat, game-time tracking and more - but it’s up to you which features you want to use.

Library Features.

Installing and updating made smarter, with you in charge.

• One-click install - Prefer convenience? Install any GOG.com game with a single click, and it will forever stay up to date. As soon as the game is installed, it’s ready to play.
• Backup copy download - Want to backup your purchases? We get it. For all games, you can download a DRM-free backup installer that you can save to an external disk, drive or cloud.
• Offline support - It’s up to you when and how to play your games. GOG Galaxy will always work without an internet connection, and so will your games.
• Rollback (soon) - Sometimes game updates break things. Thanks to the built-in Rollback feature, you can restore your game to prior states with just a single click.
• Optional auto-updates - Don’t like being forced to update? In GOG Galaxy you can turn off auto-updating for any game and receive notifications when new updates are available.

In-Game Features.

Enriching DRM-free games with optional online features.

• Multiplayer & matchmaking - GOG Galaxy-powered multiplayer games offer matchmaking and online play. In new and classic games alike, meet other players and make friends... or enemies.
• Achievements - Complete challenges laid out by the developers, experience more of the game, win bragging rights or just do it for the sake of your inner completionist.
• Game-time tracking & stats - For nearly every GOG game you can now track your play time. Additionally, select GOG Galaxy-powered games will offer extra stats or in-game leaderboards.
• Crossplay - Crossplay-enabled games offer online play between GOG and Steam. Because where you buy your games shouldn't prevent you from playing with friends.
• Game overlay (soon) - See notifications for new messages, requests or achievements, check on your progress and chat with friends... All that without leaving the game.

Community Features.

More ways to build friendships and stay in touch.

• Friends list - Add people you like to your friends list. With a single click you will see if they’re online, what are they playing, start a new chat or invite them to a game.
• Online chat - Our new chat is not limited to the Client. No matter if your friends are on GOG Galaxy or on the GOG website, you can chat with them in real time.
• Game inviting & joining (soon) - Enjoy playing games with great company? Galaxy-powered multiplayer games will allow you to invite friends from the game, or to join their games from the Client.

More.

Small details can sometimes make the biggest difference.

• Choose your features - Don’t like achievements or chat? Just as the Client is optional, so are its features. Turn off the ones you don’t care about, leaving only what’s important to you.
• Privacy - We deeply respect our users, so we’ve also built GOG Galaxy to respect your privacy. We don’t track your personal data... we don’t even look for it.
• App notifications (soon) - Keep the Client running and you’ll be first to know whenever your wishlisted game is discounted, or when a new friend, game or chat invite is received.
• Constantly optimized - We believe that the client application should be as lightweight as possible, and with every version we will do our best to decrease its CPU and memory footprint.
• Always optional - Beyond all these features, the Client will never be mandatory. That’s great motivation for us - we want to make it so good, you’ll actually want to use it.

Universal Cloud Saves

• Never lose your progress again! New games, as well as all-time classics are upgraded with saves syncing and cloud backup. (supported games only)

In-game overlay

• Chat with friends, check notifications or your achievement progress by pressing Shift+Tab in supported games.

Choosing your features

• Customize the Client to your needs by selecting features you want to use, for a personalised experience and no feature-creep.

Bandwidth limit & schedule

• GOG GALAXY downloads as fast as it can, but sometimes you might want to limit that. And you can schedule limits too.

New chat

• Rewritten from scratch, it lets you stay connected with friends when playing a game or when using the Client.

Out of beta

• GOG GALAXY is out of beta - only new preview features will be beta limited.

Screenshots

• Press F12 in games supporting in-game overlay to capture that epic moment.

New hibernation mode

• On top of making GOG GALAXY even faster, auto-hibernation drastically reduces CPU usage when idle or playing games - to save your precious resources.

New settings window

• Control and customise Client’s features from the new settings window.

FPS counter

• Overlay includes frames per second counter to measure how well does the game perform on your glorious PC.

Achievement rarity

• Whenever you unlock an achievement you will see how common or unique it is among GOG community.

Desktop notifications

• Receive new messages, game invites or friend request notifications when in-game or when GOG GALAXY is in the background.