One of Steam’s biggest competitors is launching a new feature to try to lure users away from Valve’s digital PC store. Today GOG — formerly known as Good Old Games — announced GOG Connect, a new tool that lets users connect a Steam account and import select games to their GOG library. The company describes it as a way to “grow or jumpstart your GOG.com library.”
GOG’s new ‘connect’ feature lets you import select Steam games
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At present, however, the number of supported games is relatively small, with just over 20 titles available to transfer from Steam to GOG. That’s a far cry from the thousands of Steam games, but GOG’s list does include some big-name titles, including Jonathan Blow’s The Witness and the very first Witcher game. The list of available games will also change over time. “These are limited-time offers made possible by participating developers and publishers,” the company says, “so stay tuned as we bring new titles onboard in the future.”
GOG has been making a strong push to compete with Steam over the last year or so, and the new “connect” feature is just the latest move. Last year, the company launched a new client called GOG Galaxy, that was similar to Steam but with several important changes, most notably the lack of DRM. Since then GOG has also released a handful of useful features, such as the ability to roll back troublesome game updates.
You can check out the complete list of GOG Connect-supported games here.
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