Digital video game storefront Good Old Games, aka GOG, is hosting a massive sales event dedicated to open-world games. Or, well, mostly open-world games. It really depends on how you define what is and isn’t an open-world game.
This week, GOG launched a big ol’ sales event featuring some remarkably steep discounts on a variety of games that it classifies as open world. The sales event runs until October 25 and features nearly 400 PC games, including some big hits like The Outer Worlds, Saints Row: The Third, Shadow of Mordor, Sleeping Dogs, and Far Cry 2. All of these games are only available on PC and, like all other games on GOG, don’t feature any DRM. Which is great! This is a good sale. And if all you care about is seeing a list of some of the best and biggest deals I spotted from the sale, scroll past the next paragraph and check that list out. Enjoy it! Happy shopping.
Okay, the real sickos are still here. Good. Scrolling through GOG’s list of open-world games made me ponder what is an open-world game. How do you define it? Is Slime Rancher an open-world game, or just a game that features a large map you can freely explore? Do open-world games need side quests? Activities to complete? I think so, but perhaps my definition is too strict? Or maybe trying to categorize every piece of media into various genres and subgenres is silly, and I should stop thinking about this so much? Probably that one.
- Deadly Premontion: Director’s Cut – $1.25 ($25)
- Dropsy – $1 ($10)
- The Outer Worlds – $8 ($30)
- Greedfall – $3 ($35)
- Slime Rancher – $5 ($20)
- Hard West – $2 ($20)
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor – $4 ($20)
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition – $6 ($60)
- Rebel Galaxy – $2 ($20)
- Rebel Galaxy Outlaw – $5 ($30)
- Saints Row 2 – $1.5 ($10)
- Saints Row: The Third Remastered – $3 ($30)
- Saints Row IV: Re-Elected – 3 ($20)
- Saints Row: Gat out of Hell – $4 ($15)
- Dungeon Siege Collection (1,2,3) – $5 ($20)
- The Testament of Sherlock Holmes – $2 ($20)
- LEGO DC Super-Villains Deluxe Edition – $9 ($55)
- Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition – $3 ($20)
- American Fugitive – $4 ($20)
- Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) – $5 ($30)
- Brutal Legend – $3 ($15)
- No Man’s Sky – $24 ($60)
- Far Cry – $3 ($10)
- Far Cry 2 – $3 ($10)
- Two Worlds Epic Edition – $5 ($15)
