I have just installed Walking Dead New Frontier and it looks like it fires up Gog Galaxy every time.

Please tell me it is a bug...

If you have Galaxy installed (for example, if you did not deselect Galaxy when using the installers that bundle Galaxy), games will launch Galaxy (at least the default shortcuts do so, launching the game executable directly shouldn't). If you don't have Galaxy installed, Galaxy can't be launched and thus the game will not launch Galaxy.

Is there a way to turn this off (other than uninstalling Galaxy) ?

I use Galaxy mainly to download offline installers for larger games, so would rather not uninstall it...

You could open the folder the game is installed in and create a new shortcut directly to the games .exe. That should work.

So when did that happen? I thought there has been only talks of such, not actual implementation yet. Or is it that darn Gwent?

That's only for your own convenience, because you might not even know that deep down inside you really like using the optional Galaxy client and you shouldn't have to limit yourself to the option of ignoring it just because of your own ignorance. ;)

I also heard about plans to include Galaxy in offline installlers, but thought it is a plan for future.

I checked the installer if I have missed Galaxy checkbox, but no - no such option in there.

I am not participating in Gwent beta.

Uninstalled Galaxy for now.

I practically moved away from Steam - got rid of my main account, on secondary have just few games which really interest me and will not come to Gog in many years (Stellaris, Civ 6). I hope Gog is not going to give me the reason to move back.

Strange, I don't remember it starting Galaxy with this game; are you sure that you didn't had Galaxy already started (as in minimized in the sys tray) ? There is no installer bundling Galaxy yet apart from Gwent beta.

See the thread "Offline installers with an option to install GOG Galaxy".

Due to the discussion and backlash, I understand they decided to continue offering installers that don't contain grab Galaxy. To be perfectly honest though, I've only partially followed the discussion and haven't bothered examining the situation.

I do note however that galaxy dll has been included in quite a few games, and I also note that with Dragons Dogma, a new folder called Galaxy is created and saves are apparently being located there. So there is no getting away from the fact that it is bit by bit creeping in.

Your game shortcut launches both galaxy and the game. Simply remove that shortcut and make a new shortcut of that game yourself.

well, a complex but working method would be to use an IDS like comodo suite and use a profile template for gog games that prevents them from calling the galaxy exe or the opposite (put a rule on galaxy exe that prevents external process and app to call it)

in sort, it basically means treating gog games or gog galaxy as a malware and quarantine/sandbox it

as i said: brutal and complex but honestly, since a coupld of week, i did in fact myself stopped treating gog installers and gog games as "normal installers" or "trusted apps" and i rather treat them as potentialy unwanted softwares or as known malwares... you are in for a surprise, then

galaxy doesnt uninstall itself cleanly, and leaves bits and stuffs behind that will make many games installers (or games executable) to miserably fail and report an error on end of installation or on launch

i had once a computer which had galaxy uninstalled, and since then, on this computer, many games i install and try to run usually gives me headache and trouble (errors, crashs at launch) while on my galaxy-virgin computer they run just fine

after the first batch of dozens of errors (and tech support tickets related) i was explained it was something related to galaxy (or "lack of it" any more on my system)

you can imagine how angry and frustrated i am regarding this topic !

It was the first alpha/beta versions (like the one bundled with the free AvP) that had issues with uninstalling, the current version doesn't have issue uninstalling.

Yeah I was active in that thread (not lately though). :) But GOG apparently postponed their plans, went back to the drawing board. That's why I was trying to get a confirmation from you are there really such installers there already which have Galaxy embedded (I believe not?).

As eumerius mentioned this is just a shortcut thing - it fires up something like Galaxy.exe -runapp C:\Games\WDNewFrontier.

Changed shortcut (obviously not working after uninstalling Galaxy) and it\s all good now.