Realms of the Haunting is a First-Person Adventure/First-Person Shooter hybrid released by Gremlin Interactive at the very end of 1996 in the US and then in Europe in early 1997. GOG has over 1000 titles in its library, making it one of the largest digital distribution companies around, and their catalog continues to grow by several titles a week. Many games come in multiple languages, some come with OSX or Linux support, and most come with additional bonuses like soundtracks and wallpapers. GOG strips every bit of DRM out of the title, makes it work on Windows 7/8/10, and then releases it at a decent price around the world wherever it can. Nowadays they are complicated bits of software that can sometimes make games unplayable for legitimate owners. In the past these were simple, like code wheels or the infamous Red Sheet of Sim City. It is a fancy term for anti-piracy measures. If you have never played a PC game before, DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. GOG is unique in that every game it provides is DRM free. Being that the first four years of life they only added old games, this was the obvious distribution platform for us to start with. Feel free to debate our choices with us on the forums.įrom 2008 until 2012, GOG was known as Good Old Games, an offshoot of CD Projekt Red (know for the Witcher Series) based in Warsaw, Poland. But don’t worry if we pass over one of your favorite titles, there will be more articles for other services and specific genres. We are starting with a local favorite, GOG. This is the result, our first Hidden Gems of PC Gaming article, where we have taken several forum regulars: Ack, Bogusmeatfactory, fastbilly1, MrPopo, and noiseredux, and asked them to find their favorite Hidden Gem title in several different online services. After much debating we came to the conclusion to do a twist of our standard set of articles and personalize them. From shareware to indies to expansion packs to free-to-play, the list will never end. There are literally tens of thousands of PC games from the last forty years. I know what you are thinking, “There are way too many PC games to make an accurate list that is manageable.” You are correct. So we have decided to take a detour into PC gaming for our main page articles for a while. But what we rarely speak about is the extensive PC gaming that many of our staff and forum members take part in on a weekly basis. Typically we here at Racketboy are known for retro console gaming. Be sure to check out the rest of Racketboy’s extra-useful Hidden Gems series
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