![]() ![]() It’s also a prescient move at a time when the big platform players like Microsoft are looking to adopt a ‘play anything, anywhere’ service for the next generation of games they publish. It’s already promising more features than the Epic Game Store which, as I write this, still doesn’t even let you type in the name of a game to search your library. Galaxy 2.0 has identified an area of friction for those of us with games scattered across various services. Karwowski gives the example of a plugin that might let you stream Xbox games to a Mac or PC. GOG also hopes that plugins will give it new functionality. “That means GOG Galaxy 2.0 will import the games from different PC platforms with activities, achievements, and stats.” Social spaceĮventually GOG wants to provide a unified friends list that let you chat with a cross platform version of your friends list. “In the early days we had this one sentence that stayed in our head like an earworm that wouldn’t let go: all the games and friends in one place,” says Karwowski. Galaxy also keeps track of game stats like ‘time played’ and lets you compare stats with other players in your friends list.įor GOG, social features are almost as important as providing a unified game library. Galaxy can pull a lot of information about your games when you link it to a client, but if you want naming conventions to sync up across your library, or want to create precise tags, you have to do a bit of organisational work. This does require some admin on the user’s part, and I look forward to the UI being refined over time. GOG has anticipated that Galaxy’s library could contain a thousand or more games for avid hobbyists, so the search and filter functions are extensive and heavily customisable. Fancy playing a shooter? Sort the library by games with the uninstalled tag, and the FPS tag, and take your pick. You can sort games by genre tags, or series tags that can pull up, for example, every Assassin’s Creed game you own. If you have ever forgotten a game existed because it’s tucked away in Origin, Galaxy will be of obvious benefit, but there are also powerful sorting tools and your library can be tweaked to your needs. ![]() In the demo I’m shown, GOG launches a game in seconds without any intermediary steps. Once you’ve built your cohesive library, you can launch those games directly without logging into further programs. It’s one-click import and one-click remove.” ![]() “If you disconnect from GOG Galaxy all of your data you’ve imported into Galaxy will be removed from our servers as well. “There’s one more thing which we did which I think should be a standard when it comes to any apps or platforms that amass user data. Removing client permissions from Galaxy 2.0 is just as easy. ![]()
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