GOG can't compete with Epic on the frequency of their free offerings,
but that's not for lack of trying. They may not give games as
frequently, and the games they offer are usually a lot older and less
desirable, but... um.... look, it's a free game; you want it or not?

* The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_dark_eye_chains_of_satinav
This is another of those games I /know/ that I have
played in the past, and yet I remember nothing about
it. It's a side-scrolling adventure game in the
classic style; it's based on the "Dark Eye" fantasy
RPG setting (also used in the old Arkania games, if
you remember those) and it generally reviewed well...
but beyond that? A total blank. That it left so
little impression implies it wasn't completely
terrible (those are always memorable!), but it
doesn't speak highly of the game otherwise. Oh well;
adventure fans might want it.

Like all GOG give-aways, you have 72 hours to claim the game before
the offer expires. Three days to increment The Number; that's more
than enough time. Click-click!

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:15:49 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

>Like all GOG give-aways, you have 72 hours to claim the game before
>the offer expires. Three days to increment The Number; that's more
>than enough time. Click-click!

I did click-click. Thank you. I like the art style.

On 12/27/2024 7:15 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>
> GOG can't compete with Epic on the frequency of their free offerings,
> but that's not for lack of trying. They may not give games as
> frequently, and the games they offer are usually a lot older and less
> desirable, but... um.... look, it's a free game; you want it or not?
>
Not.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

On 12/27/2024 4:15 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>
> GOG can't compete with Epic on the frequency of their free offerings,
> but that's not for lack of trying. They may not give games as
> frequently, and the games they offer are usually a lot older and less
> desirable, but... um.... look, it's a free game; you want it or not?
>
>
> * The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
> https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_dark_eye_chains_of_satinav
> This is another of those games I /know/ that I have
> played in the past, and yet I remember nothing about
> it. It's a side-scrolling adventure game in the
> classic style; it's based on the "Dark Eye" fantasy
> RPG setting (also used in the old Arkania games, if
> you remember those) and it generally reviewed well...
> but beyond that? A total blank. That it left so
> little impression implies it wasn't completely
> terrible (those are always memorable!), but it
> doesn't speak highly of the game otherwise. Oh well;
> adventure fans might want it.
>
> Like all GOG give-aways, you have 72 hours to claim the game before
> the offer expires. Three days to increment The Number; that's more
> than enough time. Click-click!
>

I have it on Steam already, now I have it on Gog as well. I played it
before and I definitely meant to get further into it, but it suffers
from what I sometimes call the melancholy disease: the life of the
protagonist is so miserable from the beginning it gets you down in real
life. Everybody hates him because of a prophecy, nobody likes him, and
fitting for the adventure genre everyone treats him kind of shitty. That
works well if the character is some self-obsessed dunce like Roger Wilco
or Guybrush, it doesn't work that well if the character is an ultimately
decent, if a bit downtrodden guy.

Anyway, yes, it's based on the Aventuria setting. It seems they wanted
to branch out into adventure games for a while, but the lack of further
games in the vein (outside of one sequel) tells me it was not as
successful as they wanted it to be.