GOG Preservation Program launches today!
GOG was created 16 years ago, with the mission to preserve games. 2024 has been a cornerstone year for pursuing that mission, with the restoration and release of Alpha Protocol and the classic Resident Evil series.
The release of classic Resident Evil titles illustrates, in many ways, what the center of our work has been for the last 16 years: Reviving games that have disappeared for decades and tend to run on bespoke tech that is difficult for their original creators to maintain.
Our original promise to classic game creators was that we’d offload all the work from their hands and ensure that games remain compatible with modern systems forever.
That’s why we are announcing a new project to make games live forever: The GOG Preservation Program, an official stamp on classic games improved by GOG. We commit our own resources to maintaining their compatibility with modern systems.
The Resident Evil series is part of the GOG Preservation Program, and 100 classic games from our catalog are being re-released today with updated or quality-tested builds, including Heroes of Might and Magic® 3: Complete and Dungeon Keeper™ 2.
On the GOG store, games part of the Preservation Program are identified with a dedicated stamp. You can also understand GOG's work on each game by looking at its Preservation Log. We will continue adding more games to the GOG Preservation Program from our existing catalog and new classic releases.
The Video Game History Foundation has shared that 87% of games created before 2010 are inaccessible today. With the help of the gaming community, we are set on getting that number down to zero.