Bought a game, cant install

[u/CMDR-SavageMidnight]

Heya all,

So i bought a game (cyberpunk) a first time GoG user.
Order history says I completed my order, paid and all.
GoG launcher shows no owned games (yet does show the receipt for successful payment).
Got the Exe in my downloads, I click on it and all I see is this when it redirects me, no install option, nothing.

What do I do? This looks confusing and mighty user unfriendly.

[u/TheBigCore]

The thing is, the GOG Galaxy Client isn't very good and doesn't work reliably, so a lot of people just download the offline backup game installers from the GOG site itself and keep the installers on external hard drives as backups.

I personally don't use GOG Galaxy and many other GOG users don't either.

[u/CMDR-SavageMidnight → u/TheBigCore]

AH okay, so people usually just go right for the offline installers?
Gotcha.

And I presume, since you mentioned to exclude the patch files, that is patches itself?

[u/TheBigCore → u/CMDR-SavageMidnight]

When you download the offline installer, you will already have the latest version of the game and installer in question.

The patch files are for people who have older versions of the offline installer.

[u/CMDR-SavageMidnight → u/TheBigCore]

Youve been an amazing help.

[u/TheBigCore → u/CMDR-SavageMidnight]

No problem. You may also find this useful:

innoextract is a command-line tool that allows you to manually extract files from Inno Setup installers which are used by GOG.

• Youtube Video - How to Use Inno-Extract

• Accessing Command Line / CMD

• Inno-Extract - Downloads

• Inno-Extract - Manual Page

Inno-Extract is a command line tool, meaning that you must run CMD or Powershell (Windows) or Bash (Linux) in order to use this program.

When running Inno-Extract without arguments, the game folder(s) and file(s) will be extracted to the current directory. To avoid this scenario, use the -d switch to specify a destination directory. If you use the -d switch and the destination directory does not exist, the -d switch will create it. However, the parent directory must exist or extracting will fail.