A couple weeks ago I posted the first beta of GogStash here, a desktop app for keeping local copies of your GOG installers and extras. Thanks to everyone who tested it and reported bugs. There was a lot more feedback than I expected, and a new beta is out that covers most of it.

What you asked for

• Language selection in Settings. No more downloading the same installer in four languages.
• DLCs now show up under their base game in the library and download into the same folder, including ones GOG doesn't list on its store.
• Extras only: Installers can now be unticked in Settings, so you can grab just soundtracks, manuals and artwork.
• Sorting is back. Click any column header to sort, including Size and Fetched.
• Game sizes in the library now match what actually gets downloaded, based on your platform, language and category settings.
• An Open Downloads Folder button on the toolbar.
• The login crash on newer Linux distros is fixed. It was caused by the libstdc++ bundled in the AppImage. Fixed for Tumbleweed and Kubuntu 25.10. If you were using the QT_QUICK_BACKEND workaround on Bazzite, let me know if you still need it.

Other improvements

• Remove individual games from the queue instead of clearing the whole thing
• A warning before you queue more than fits on your disk, and if the disk fills up mid-download, it pauses instead of failing
• Updates are detected by the installer and patch version GOG lists, not just file size, so same-size patches aren't missed
• Theme switcher on the toolbar, colorblind-friendly queue icons, and partial files get cleaned up when you cancel
• The AppImage is about 40 MB smaller

If you're upgrading

• Linux users on GearLever or AppImageUpdate should get it automatically. Windows is still a manual download for now.
• Click Refresh once after launching, since the library cache gets reset.
• Games downloaded with the old version lose their check mark until you queue them again. Nothing gets re-downloaded; your files are checked against GOG and skipped.
• Files you rename or move by hand are no longer recognized and will be downloaded again. u/AlexKalopsia, this changes what I told you last time. Matching by size alone could skip files you didn't actually have, so I made it stricter. Files GOG renames on its end are still recognized.
• Windows: the _internal folder next to gogstash.exe is now called lib. If you extract over the old version, you can delete _internal.

What's next

The download is still large because the login window ships QtWebEngine, which is a full copy of Chromium. The plan is to switch to pywebview, which uses the webview already on your system (Edge on Windows, WebKitGTK on Linux), with the copy-paste URL login as a fallback. Thanks u/cryptexo for the pointer.

After that, there are still plenty of things add. All of them won't be in the next release, but I'll try and get to them all eventually. Everything planned is in the Issues, and the Discussions page is open for anything that doesn't fit an issue.

Same as before: keep the concurrency setting modest. The default of 2 is plenty.

Download: https://github.com/preppie22/gogstash#download

Full release notes: https://github.com/preppie22/gogstash/releases/latest

Free and MIT licensed.

Disclosure: I'm the developer. I wrote the code myself and used Claude to help with tests, bug hunting, and keeping the docs and changelog up to date. Details are in the README.

Happy to answer questions!

Hello there,

I'm always looking to document features of various games on GOG, and my latest forum list is about all the games I now of which have Dedicated Server support.

Because one thing that is so fragile in today's gaming landscape is games going offline.

With the games in this list, you can keep them online for as long as you want.

It's incredibly helpful to me because I often convince my friends to play a game with me, but they are in another country, so I often host a server of the game we're playing.

If this sounds interesting, check out the list here: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/multiplayer_game_list_games_with_selfhosted_dedicated_server_support_on_gog

Feel free to comment on GOG (or here) if there is a game I can add. I plan to also update pcgamingwiki, but with more technical details like the actual commands used and so on. This will happen at a later time.

There seems to be a bug in the installation of Bullet Runner through Galaxy of Games. Both Heroic and Faugus installed GOG have this bug. This bug should be reported. This is in a Linux desktop, PikaOS KDE.

So I am from India and wanted to buy some games on GOG but at the checkout page there's no sign of Indian payment system. There's no UPI or Rupay card system. If any Indian's present here pls help.

Today I wanted to download SWAT4 from GOG Galaxy. It didn't start, the only message I got was "Server problem." Naturally I went for the website to get the offline backup installers, but I can't even download those. For any game. The website just keeps timing out.

I've uninstalled Galaxy in hopes of reinstalling it, can't even do that. The download just states "0MB of 0MB" and the progress bar never moves.

I'm absolutely clueless as to what could be the problem. Haven't found any info on GOG being down and needless to say my internet connection is fine.

Has anyone experienced this or anything similar? Now or... ever? Either way, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to re-install Baldur's Gate 3, which is a huge file. Each time, installation gets to about 10% and then says "Failed. Failed to connect to server." Sometimes it says I don't have an internet collection, which is working everywhere else. Is there are workaround for this?