Yeah, iconic is different for each people. For me, The Witcher is the brand of Gog/Cd Project. Also, the best seller HoMM3 could be the most iconic if a lot of people bought it.

Good luck with that. After many years here I'd be deeply shocked if OP made a topic that wasn't intentionally ridiculous, vague, and/or inciting disagreements.

Can't say, what the most iconic game on GOG is, but THE most iconic game isn't on GOG.

It's probably a tie between the classic RPGs (Fallout, Planescape Torment etc) and The Witcher series, I feel like other games are not that iconic for GOG

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What do you mean? I could find it on GOG with no difficulty at all: https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri

(GOG, where did you find these screenshots? They look awful, the actual game is much less of a pain for the eyes)

He's talking about OutRun.


(If he isn't, he should!)

HoMM3. It seems to be consistently in the bestsellers list, and the version sold here is pretty universally regarded as superior to the HD version on Steam.

There are personal preferences or toward someone with a certain taste. Everyone got a certain taste, it can not be helped. Iconic to me would mean if a game is able to pass a certain quality, either at a very unique spot or in general, simply a game able to "set a certain special mark in its genre".

In this term i can only point at the outstanding games at a certain genre.

Which is:

JRPG: Legend of Heroes Series and the YS series, everything available on GoG now.

RPG: Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3 and Grim Dawn, with Horizon Zero Dawn having some special place in my heart°

Retro Style 2D RPG: Chained Echoes and Cross Code are surely outstanding

Horror Adventure: Alan Wake, Beyond Two Souls and Silent Hill 4 are among the best of them. Probably as well Resident Evil 1-3, which got no bundle discount on many countries... "it is just to good".

Open World RPG: Guess not hard to say, Morrowind and Skyrim... just do not forget to use mods, tons of it, a huge work.

2D Action Adventure (kinda comparable to Metroidvania): Hollow Knight and Bloodstained: Ritual are surely at the very edge. Honorable mention for Frontier Hunter Erza with its general "art direction" i enjoy a lot.

C RPG (games primarily designed for PC, may lack pad support) Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Dragon Age Origins, Divinity II and the true classics "Star Wars KotoR 1&2: Will need lot of modding but there might be a remake soon".

C Action Adventure (this time with no or low RPG elements): Thief 2 The Metal Age and Vampire the Masquerade

Action Adventure: Huge genre but the Tomb Raider Series, God of War and Shadow Man Remastered is at the top. Worth to mention: Yakuza and "Like a Dragon"-Series, although GoG is struggling getting the newest releases so far.

Abstract 2D Action Adventure: New and rather difficult to describe genre, which has been evolved from a certain minimalist design. Not huge yet but the best of them are "Hyper Light Drifter" and "Unsighted".

Space Shooter: "Freespace 2" is surely the all time classics which, when played with mods... is till the newest age, still a milestone any other games of this genre may have to watch out for. From the newest release it clearly is Everspace 2 with its in many term unique approach, outstanding almost fully handcrafted°° graphic and combat... but a rather weak story. No Mans Sky as an special example of a game where everything is procedurally generated, perhaps in the now most refined way we ever had on any game. °°Everspace 2 got procedurally generated stuff too but only inside a Leviathan which is part of the endgame, as i said a very interesting game.

Space Sim: A rather niche genre but it is clearly the "X-series", especially X3 and X4. Astrox Imperium got potential but unfortunately no one knows if the dev will ever continue developing it.

RPG Shooter: Deus Ex (there is a great mod), Control Ultimate Edition and Days Gone as good examples.

Shooter: System Shock 1+2, Stalker-series and Metro-series.

Retro Style Shooter (minimalist design recreated): Dusk and Amid Evil

Strategy/Tactics: Civ 3 + 4 and Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga

RTS: Supreme Commander (Multiplayer with Fanservers available) and a RTS with a unique sound design "Dark Reign 2", playable on LAN.

Jump and Run: Phoenotopia Awakening, Freedom Planet and Owlboy.

Visual Sim: Life is Strange CE, The Walking Dead

J-Visual Sim: Opus CE and Evenicle

J-Visual Novel: BaldrSky and Full Metal Muramasa.

Arcade: KoF Series, Space Ranger HD

Puzzle: The Talos Principle, Disco Elysium and Battle Chief Brigade

Isometric CRP: Baldurs Gate 1+2 Classic (either with mods or the remaster), Titan Quest and Tyranny.

°Aloys roots is that of an outcast, someone barely accepted or understood by society, yet she slowly was able to slowly lurk into the heart of a huge crowd. Kinda my own situation in many terms.

Without a doubt, The Witcher.

This is the one for me, it is what brought me to the store in first place when I wanted to buy it and found there is a better way than buying DRMed games and cracking the DRM to play peacefully

The lack of Balatro, because it speaks volumes. :p

The Evil Within 1 is a very awful game. And GOG only has the most awful version. The somewhat-fixed version, which is vastly superior to the GOG version, has been missing on GOG for years, and probably will remain missing forever.

As for the question in the thread title: IMO there is no such thing as a "most iconic" game, because "iconic" is a subjective term based on personal preferences & biases, and also based on the generational time period into which one happens to have been born, which makes it even more subjective.

I will investigate the matter, any hints what happened here appreciated. In general this genre is very challenging, because just a few really good stuff, i feel. Even lesser with a solid playing time.