Based on our record, Bottles seems to be a lot more popular than GOG Galaxy. While we know about 227 links to Bottles, we've tracked only 4 mentions of GOG Galaxy. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
On a fresh GOG GALAXY installation, in the main view "recent" you should see a giveaway banner on the top, you can claim it there. If you have GOG GALAXY installed already and don't see the banner, you can uninstall, and then install it again from https://gog.com/galaxy Please note that uninstallation will cause you to have to reconnect your integrations, add installed games again ("add games & friends" -> scan... Source: almost 3 years ago
Update: 2.0.40 has a fix for missing games. Can be force-updated via gog.com/galaxy installer. Source: almost 3 years ago
Update – all below problems are solved in 2.0.40 which can be force-updated by using the installer from gog.com/galaxy. Source: almost 3 years ago
Try using GOG GALAXY installer from https://gog.com/galaxy , it should update your currently installed client to newest version. You can try reinstalling in case you already have the newest one. :). Source: about 3 years ago
If it need installation (or has some kind of wizard), probably look into UseBottles and once installed, link the .exe to Steam. Source: 5 months ago
Bottles is very convenient to manage wine https://usebottles.com/. Source: 5 months ago
For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you... Source: 5 months ago
Bottles is great for old classic non-steam games. I haven't tried 🏴☠️ with it but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Source: 5 months ago
Lutris is wonderful. I also recommend Bottles. https://usebottles.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
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