The digital gaming world has been on the grow for years and while Steam is arguably the head honcho, GOG.com is a worthy alternative. Beginning life in 2008, the PC storefront is currently celebrating its 15th year with a mega sale event that sees hundreds of games being discounted.
If you head over to the GOG website, you can peruse all the games that have had their prices slashed for the celebrations. There’s pretty much something for everyone here, whether you want 40% off Cyberpunk 2077, 75% off the GOTY edition of Fallout 3, or some other percent signs attached to some other game.
There’s also a blog post that gives a little bit of history about the service, as well as a few facts about the website. For example, did you know you can use the famous Konami code on the homepage?
Intended to preserve PC gaming
Started by CD Projekt around the time it found fame with the Witcher series, Good Old Games was born as a means of digitally distributing PC games. This idea goes back even further – to 1994 – in which the company wanted a way of combating video game piracy in Poland by, as the website itself says, “offering classic games at budget-friendly prices.”
As the digital age grew in the 2000s, the likes of GOG.com have become a haven for “forgotten gems.” While the company responsible for it would become better known as the developer of AAA games (under the CD Projekt Red brand), its PC gaming storefront is a strong force in the quest to keep classic games in circulation.
