This is huge news:

Introducing GOG Connect
GOG Connect

Important: You can connect only one Steam account with your GOG.com library. This process is permanent – choose wisely!

Important 2: If you own some of the games and Connect doesn't recognize them, press the Refresh button and wait a while (can be a few minutes, hours or even a day). The reason for this is that GOG is using the Steam API to scan your Steam library and the API has a limit on the number of calls it can make for a given period of time. If you're still having problems, refresh your GOG account (simply clicking the link is enough; this is different that the Refresh button on the GOG Connect page!).

Important 3: In case you are still getting the message "Due to exceedingly high demand this may take up to several days, please check back later. Thank you for your patience." after waiting a while and trying the account refresh link above, then it would be a good idea to contact GOG support. Many users have reported that their problem was fixed quickly after that.

Connect your Steam account and grow or jumpstart your GOG.com library.

Today, we're launching a new program called GOG Connect. The premise is simple: connect your Steam account and add your eligible games to your GOG.com library.

Whether you're checking us out for the first time or have been with us for a while, GOG Connect gets you DRM-free versions of your games, digital extras, and a whole lot of freedom of choice (like whether you go with the GOG Galaxy client or not). It gets you our take on game ownership, and we say: why buy the games more than once?

While GOG Connect will stick around, the available games will come and go. These are limited-time offers made possible by participating developers and publishers, so stay tuned as we bring new titles onboard in the future (and grab your copies before they go away)!

I really hope more games are made available, because this could raise GOG's popularity significantly!


Edit on 29-April-2020:

Game Ratings Bundled Retail Price Available Until
Fort Triumph 84% of 257 reviews 0 24.99 6-May-2020 17:00 UTC

Thanks to BrianFarnet: The GOG Connect Steam group is a useful way to get notified about future batches in your activity feed.

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Just made in time. Got 6 of 8 games.

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Two worlds is not that epic but it's good having outside steam.

5 years ago
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With SOMA, SW2 and 2 new connect games have reached 176 games on GOG :)), this is steam all over again :D!

5 years ago
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I have bought exactly 2 games from GOG. My account has over 100. :o

5 years ago
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I expected you having more games on steam then me to do that :D

5 years ago
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I think it's a clever idea for GOG to do all these free games.
You are more likely to care about a non-steam library if it is slowly building up to be quite substantial.

5 years ago
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How often do they do a Connect? Its been a couple of months.

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Been a month.

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Stellaris is available now on GOG Connect.

Also note: there are two free DLC on GOG that you can add.

5 years ago*
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I got it without owning it on Steam. A glitch?

5 years ago
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Same here.

5 years ago
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Maybe they figured that most people want to buy all the expansions when they try the game? Or maybe it is a glitch thanks to a free weekend on steam some time ago.

I also got the game without owning it on Steam.

Also note: there are two free DLC on GOG that you can add.

5 years ago
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Thanks for the notification. It looks like it is only available for 24 hours.

5 years ago
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I have Stellaris, but GOG connect don't give me.

5 years ago
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I own it but its not working for me lol

5 years ago
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It worked to me just now. Try again.

5 years ago
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I've added, thanks.

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For me it fails to recognize it in my steam library :(

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thanks, added stellaris and the two dlc to my gog account. i noticed i already had horizon signal on my steam account if i check the dlc tab of the game, and anniversary portraits is free on steam right now, so added that too.

5 years ago
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wow

5 years ago
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  • 2 dlcs free for Stellaris in gog: Horizon Signal and Anniversary Portraits
5 years ago
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They're free on Steam as well. The Anniversary Portraits can be pushed directly from the DLC's page, Horizon Signal I believe is a deprecated package, which you can get from SteamDB.

5 years ago
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UNAVAILABLE GAMES
. Stellaris (not found in your Steam library)

5 years ago
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Same. Looks like it doesn't work for everybody.

5 years ago
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Was there a free weekend on Steam? Maybe only for the users who use the free Weekend.

5 years ago
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Try launching the game on Steam. I just hit "download" refreshed GOG and it works.

5 years ago
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Try launching the game on Steam. I just hit "download" refreshed GOG and it works.

5 years ago
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Chart updated.

If anyone is having trouble getting the site to recognize that you own the game on Steam, the standard procedure is to wait 2 hours and then hit the Refresh button on the page. It might not work the first time, but usually does after a few tries (worst case).

5 years ago
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Just worked fine for me. Got Stellaris and 2 DLC for free on GOG!

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There are two permanently-free DLCs for Stellaris on GOG, so he's not lying. I've linked them in the OP and someone else has done the same in the comments on this page. He never said he got them from GOG Connect, you add them after you get the base game.

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Thx for clearing this out!

5 years ago
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I am not lying. Read posts above, go to GOG store and get the 2 DLCs. You dont get the dlc via GOG connect. First get Stellaris via GOG connect and after the game is in your library go to the GOG Store search for Stellaris and add 2 DLC for 0$ and buy them. 🤐

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The same two DLCs are free on Steam too, so why would he/she lie? One of them comes with the base game (i have it anyway) and doesn't appear to be listed, and the other is permanently free.

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stellaris is not even listed as unavailable for me

"Update: We're terribly sorry, but due to technical issues with Steam library verification, we had to remove GOG Connect for Stellaris. We're investigating in order to resolve it and will try to bring you back this offer in the near future."

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I think only me who get missing stellaris after hit refresh

5 years ago
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Apparently, people were getting it who don't actually own it on Steam. I think they realised this and shut it down for now.

5 years ago
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Thanks for the info, then there is no need of playing the "hit the refresh button" game

5 years ago
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Does anyone else have a problem with this one? For me it doesn't show that it has a new game added. A few months back i contacted GOG to reset my Connect, but i guess its broken again.

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Thank you. I missed that one.

5 years ago
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No visible games here? :( (Germany)

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Ups. How stupid. :D
Thanks, for that answer.

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Afaik there was only Stellaris.

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Still no available games for me.

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"The current batch of 8 games is available until 6-June-2019, 16:00 UTC:"

Don't understand why it says "8 games" .

5 years ago
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Because I forgot to edit it, that's why. :)

5 years ago
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lol ,thanks for the info.

5 years ago
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Not to necro for nothing but i thought back then they just made some mistake, they'd fix it and come back again, now it's been pretty long again since the last real batch. Over half a year? Does it cost too much, and slowly dying?

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ZOMG I got all excited for nothing! :-P

5 years ago
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Same here, i went directly to GOG to check before even checking the thread. xD

5 years ago
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Sowwy :x I thought making a new topic about it would be silly too. :p

I am not visiting the GOG forums, so thought maybe they said something there about last month, and someone knows.

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No worries, I was just teasing, especially since you said, "Not to necro for nothing." :p

5 years ago
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Don't do that man :)) not fair

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If I recall correctly GOG doesn't have direct control over what is available for connect. It was the developers who decided if they wanted to participate.

Also I refer to https://steamcommunity.com/groups/gogcomco#announcements to see when games were available

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Probably they realized it isn't worth it, most people only care about Steam.
If anything gog lost money with connect

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I hope not, I like the connect system and have been waiting on them bringing more games to it again. I didn't see the Stellaris offer during the short period it ran so I can't remember the last time they had a connect offer going.

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Well the last replies before that here were from 6 months ago, so i assume then, and i think that would be accurate.

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Connect has always been a special 1 day-2 week promotion thing that comes and goes. They have to get agreements from the game license holders to do it. As I recall from vague recollection of how it works, they are only losing out on bandwidth cost. That would be because the game publisher/devs are agreeing to give the game free on gog without compensation beyond what they received from selling it to you already on steam. It's a win for gog.com since the bigger the game library there, the more likely someone is to use the service and buy something. Bandwidth hosting might not even be an issue if they host their own servers without data limits on the lines. Only doing it during sales and promotions increases the chance someone will buy something while limiting the number of people just using it for DRM-free copies without purchasing.

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My guess is they won't need Connect anymore with Galaxy 2.0, where you will have access to your Steam library anyway.

5 years ago
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But it's not really the same.

5 years ago
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True but from my understanding Connect was created to convince I'd-use-GOG-if-I-had-all-my-Steam-games-there people to use GOG. Galaxy 2.0 does that for free.

I might be wrong though.

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Access to Steam games and having them DRM-free are very different.

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True but from my understanding Connect was created to convince I'd-use-GOG-if-I-had-all-my-Steam-games-there people to use GOG. Galaxy 2.0 does that for free.

I might be wrong though.

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GOG Galaxy 2.0 would just combine all your client libraries into one for easy access. It wouldn't make your Steam/Uplay etc games suddenly become DRM-free, and I'm sure you'd still need to have GOG Galaxy 2.0 connected to the internet in order to run those DRM games run/update while in game to progress, and they'd still be just as difficult backing up.

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5 years ago
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Again, I agree with you but I was talking about completely different aspect of Connect :)

5 years ago
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Amid Evil and Dusk are supposed to be available with GOG Connect, but the later is not available on their site, yet.

5 years ago
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Yeah, they're working on the multiplayer to work without Steamworks. Both are great games, only played a little bit of AMID EVIL so far but highly recommend DUSK.

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I initially wanted to wait for the gog release of DUSK, but when I realized that I could just pick it up for 10 bucks at the Humble Store and connect it later on I just didn't want to wait any longer. While I enjoyed AE, the weapon selection feels a bit off: Not counting the superweapon, you basicly only need 3 weapons: the target seeking orbs for long range attacks, the rocket launcher for AoE damage and the Shard Gun for utiliy(recoil, enemies with shields) and DPS.

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Damn, I missed the Stellaris one...

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It was glitched, anyway, so there was no guarantee of getting the game. I couldn't get it to work, myself.

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If you owned the game like I did, you had to start the download. This, for some odd reason, made GOG recognise that you had it.

But... people who didn't own the game were able to claim it without any bother at all. It was odd.

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Well Lugum is right Gog refresh & Imported Games
But With Gog 2.0 At moment in Beta Does all this.
Yer it's not Right YET
I have games Listed Twice from Different Sites But 1 may be DLC s. NOT TRIED IT ALL OUT YET NEED A CLEAR HEAD (NO BEER)

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I always have a clear head without beer.

5 years ago
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The next bump will be Gog Connect 4real :)

It has been a while actually since we've seen a big one ,must be due something soon .

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6 months, don't think we ever had such a big gap.

5 years ago
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I think GogConnect is no more

5 years ago
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Most likely so.

5 years ago
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I think if they were going to discontinue Connect, they'd make an announcement and not just give up on it without telling anybody. That doesn't seem to be their style - they're usually good about stuff like that.

5 years ago
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They ditched Reclaim Your Game, did they make an announcement about it?
https://www.gog.com/reclaim
Last update Sep 28, 2017

5 years ago
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To be fair, I think GOG Connect is a little higher profile than Reclaim Your Game, which I didn't even know was a thing until you posted that.

5 years ago
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I didn't even consider there were boxed copies of some of those games around o.O

5 years ago
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Probably on hold while they get the new cross-service version of Galaxy out.

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