GOG Galaxy

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with GOG Galaxy, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Clicking Play shows syncing then silently resets, with no clear next step2025-10-17
Mac client cannot be quit normally, forcing users to force-quit2025-01-15
Installer used dark patterns to trick people into installing Galaxy2024-11-14
Launcher is buggy and slow to use2023-04-15
Direct installer links buried deeper and deeper, pushing users toward Galaxy2022-08-06