So GOG Galaxy. It exists.

But not for a lot of us. Some of us have system reasons such as GOG Galaxy refusing to exist.

Others of us find the client to be an overt mess of a product that does too many things.

Among these and other schools of thought, products have emerged.

The recently released GOGCLI

MiniGalaxy

GoGRepo

Lutris

LGOG

Playnite

Gamehub

And I'm sure there's probably more. So which is your choice?

Nothing, I use nothing but the Offline installers.

Nothing. I use PoL but I don't think it really counts. It just makes it much easier for me to deal with Wine.

Offline installers do the trick for me. Granted, I only play singleplayer.

Same here.

I use the offline installers for normal use. For backup I use gogrepo together with the GOGrepo-GUI.

As with everyone else so far - nothing. I see no need for Galaxy, and just use the offline installers to install the game and the start menu (or windows explorer) to launch the games. No need for anything else (although having the downloader back would be nice)

Nothing. I've simply never seen the point of anything beyond directly grabbing the offline installers. I know some people like GOGRepo to automate that and I can understand why. At the same time there are some games here which for several reasons, eg...

- Games like Don't Starve & This War of Mine which have had newer DLC added that I'm not interested in for which older builds are preferable / smaller / less buggy.

- Games like Divinity Original Sin which last time I checked the newest build is still buggy whilst GOG have removed the last bug-free version for downloaders and force Galaxy "rollbacks" for anything else.

- Games that haven't been updated but have been "enhanced" for Galaxy (eg, replacing Blackwell series older fast 4-in-1 installer with individual installers). Or the endless stream of "updated internal installer structure, no changes to game files" non-updates.

- Games that use source ports, mods or texture packs for which it's much faster when reinstalling to get everything set up then zip the lot up at once. Eg, installing GZDoom, adding Doom 1-2, Heretic, Hexen, Hedon, Strife, etc, customizing key bindings, adding custom WADs, etc, creating direct shortcut links, and then just backing that folder up once is much faster to reinstall & reconfigure each time. Same with DOS games, I can install 200 of them (a mix of GOG and non-GOG) with just 3-4x clicks vs one at a time. Same with ScummVM, I have around 35-40x games installed under one \ScummVM folder then backup that folder and C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ScummVM\scummvm.ini, and the whole lot is ready in just a few clicks vs one at a time.

^ For stuff like that you might actually want to deliberately keep an "out of date" offline installer or have a manual zip based method (especially with heavily modded games), for which clients / alternative downloaders don't really speed anything up / there's no real substitute to doing it yourself.

It's only the DRM-Free installers plus my good old retail collection for me - nothing more, nothing less; i'm old-fashioned when it comes to playing PC games and i like it that way. And based on my computer gaming preferences* I don't even see any point in using any sort of client or other application at all.

(*) no multiplayer, no need for achievement lists, no need for gaming profiles etc.

Sure. But I use Lutris to help me (keep track) of the games I have installed, so that way I can essentially pick what I want from a nice clean menu. That and it has support for games that aren't just on GOG; like the YKnytt or Retroarch.

Only offline installers for me. I also tried Playnite which is open source but I couldn't figure out how to download and install gog games with it.

Offline installers kept on a NAS, occasionally rsynced to an offline external hard drive.

On Linux I use Gamehub as it handles downloading all the offline installers and the file integrity check.

A folder labeled "games".

While I do use Galaxy, I prefer Playnite and Launchbox. For backing up, I use GOGRepo.