Good Old Galaxy

A simple GOG client for Linux forked from Minigalaxy.

Features

The most important features of Good Old Galaxy:

• Log in with your GOG account
• Download the Linux games you own on GOG
• Launch them

In addition to that, Good Old Galaxy also allows you to:

• Update your games
• Install and update DLC
• Download your goodies
• Select in which language you’d prefer to download your games
• Change where games are installed
• Create launcher icons on desktop
• Search your GOG Linux library
• Show all games or just the ones you’ve installed
• Filter your library by genre, operating system, language or tags
• View the error message if a game fails to launch
• Enable displaying the FPS in games
• Use the system’s Scummvm or Dosbox installation
• Install Windows games using Wine

Supported languages

Currently Good Old Galaxy can be displayed in the following languages:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• English
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Norwegian Bokmål
• Norwegian Nynorsk
• Polish
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese
• Spanish
• Taiwanese Mandarin
• Turkish

System requirements

Good Old Galaxy should work on the following distributions:

• Debian Buster (10.0) or newer
• Ubuntu 18.10 or newer
• Arch Linux
• Manjaro
• Fedora 31+
• openSUSE Tumbleweed
• Gentoo
• MX Linux 19
• Solus

Good Old Galaxy will not work for the following distributions because they do not contain the required version of PyGObject:

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Linux Mint 19.3
• openSUSE 15.1

Other Linux distributions may work as well. Good Old Galaxy requires the following dependencies:

• GTK+
• Python 3
• PyGObject 3.29.1+
• Webkit2gtk with API version 4.0 support
• Python Requests

Installation

Other distributions

On other distributions Good Old Galaxy can be downloaded and started with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/mdgomes/goodoldgalaxy.git
cd goodoldgalaxy
bin/goodoldgalaxy

This will be the development version. Alternatively a tarball of a specific release can be downloaded from the releases page.

Support

Bugs reports and feature requests can also be made here.

Contribute

Currently help is needed with the following:

• Reporting bugs in the issue tracker.
• Translating to different languages. Instructions here.
• Testing issues with the “needs testing” tag.
• Working on or giving input on issues with the “help wanted” or “good first issue” tag. Also check out the the wiki for developer information.

Known issues

Expect to see the following issues:

• Some games will always show there is an update available.
• The option to open the store page for games doesn’t work at the moment.

Special thanks

Special thanks goes out to all contributors:

• sharkwouter for creating Minigalaxy on the first place
• makson96 for multiple code contributions
• Odelpasso for multiple code contributions
• SvdB-nonp for multiple code contributions
• tim77 for packaging minigalaxy for Fedora, Flathub and multiple code contributions
• larslindq for multiple code contributions
• BlindJerobine for translating to German and adding the support option
• JoshuaFern for packaging minigalaxy for NixOS and for contributing code
• sgn for fixing a bug
• s8321414 for translating to Taiwanese Mandarin
• fuzunspm for translating to Turkish
• thomansb22 for translating to French
• ArturWroblewski for translating to Polish
• kimmalmo for translating to Norwegian Bokmål
• EsdrasTarsis for translating to Brazilian Portuguese
• protheory8 for translating to Russian
• LordPilum for translating to Norwegian Nynorsk
• dummyx for translating to simplified Chinese
• juanborda for translating to Spanish
• jubalh for packaging minigalaxy for openSUSE
• gasinvein for packaging minigalaxy for flathub
• metafarion for packaging minigalaxy for Gentoo
• SwampRabbit and Steven Pusser for packaging minigalaxy for MX Linux