For the final couple months, GOG has been gathering suggestions on the GOG Galaxy mega-games-launcher from its crew of closed beta testers. Today they’ve opened the gates and let loose what they’ve been engaged on, the monolithic-sounding GOG Galaxy 2.0 Atlas Update. The replace features a complete lot of organizational prospects, a Marie Kondo feverdream of fresh, tidy sorting choices and search tags. GOG, it appears, is angling for this to develop into your important hub for conserving observe of each single launch from previous, current, and future.
The Galaxy launcher got its first big update earlier in the year, giving folks a solution to maintain observe of their whole games library whether or not it’s on Steam, Epic, GOG and even consoles. With the brand new Atlas replace, nonetheless, they’ve now launched an excellent beefier international search characteristic. This permits you to search for actually any game, says GOG.
“Global search can find games you don’t own. Basically any game in existance,” in response to the announcement vid. And – should you personal it – you may manually hyperlink it and launch it from there.
Once a game is linked, which simply requires the .exe file, it’ll be added to the launcher together with its boxart. GOG Galaxy can even observe your in-game progress for you, which itself handily seems proper beneath the game title within the launcher. Check out the video above for a full breakdown of all of the adjustments.
The Atlas replace is dwell proper now whenever you launch GOG Galaxy 2.0. If you’re attention-grabbing in in testing it, you may join the beta on its official site.
