![]() Honestly it sounded too good to be true when I first heard about it. It’s a launcher that allows you to see and manage all your games, including those you have on PS4 and XB1, in one organized collection. GOG Galaxy 2.0 offers a simple value proposition: manage all your games in one place. This is what first attracted me to GOG Galaxy 2.0. But like with TV streaming services today, there’s a point where there’s just too many entities offering what is essentially the same service with disjointed content. I understand their desire to want to make more money and spend less of it distributing their games. I’m not one of those people who gets angry at companies for not putting their games on Steam. Every publisher has decided they need their own launcher now. ![]() Uplay, Origin, Bethesda, Epic Games Store, and so on. In the time since installing GOG Galaxy 1.0, I have had to add a number of additional game launchers to my system. It’s good as far as launchers go, but there’s nothing particularly better about it compared to other launchers. Eventually I gave in and started using GOG Galaxy. Having to login to access your games is a form of DRM. ![]() Make no mistake, requiring a launcher to access your games is a form of DRM. Some years later, they released the GOG Galaxy launcher, which I was against at first because it meant having to have yet another launcher and that suddenly DRM was slowly, and sadly, becoming a thing for GOG. For me, this was always a better, more convenient option than Steam. You just went to their site and downloaded the entire DRM free game you purchased directly to be used offline. One of the main reasons I really liked them when I first found out about them was how convenient their distribution system was. Though their selection is limited compared to Steam and other PC game distributors, I try to buy from them wherever applicable. They’re actually my favorite storefront to buy PC games from. ![]() For users wanting to keep their environment lean, looking at the settings indicates that a future update to Galaxy will allow it to stop and start the other clients as needed so if you don’t mind the initial wait for games to load and update you’ll be covered too.I’m a big fan of GOG and have been for many years. To make the best use of Galaxy 2.0 at this stage you might want to have all of the respective clients running at the same time so that they remain updated otherwise you can be caught out and have to wait before you play but that it actually works is quite cool. The presentation ensures nothing looks out of place and icons are used throughout to indicate the source for games, data and achievements. The process to add them is quite painless and after a short wait for Galaxy to pull in that service’s details you’ll soon see the games added to the overall library. The Xbox Live integration is officially supported but there are already community created ones for Epic Games Store, PlayStation Network, Origin, Steam and UPlay. On installing the new client (which replaces the current version) you can jump into the settings menu and quickly add your other services. I finally got my chance to join the closed beta for the new GOG Galaxy client and my early impressions are that the GOG team are already delivering on that promise of creating the one gateway to all of your games libraries.
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