GOG moves toward publishing after $25 million split from CD Projekt

GOG, the DRM-free PC storefront, is looking at publishing games of its own for the first time since it left CD Projekt, and its owner says some titles are already on the way.

CD Projekt sold GOG to co-founder Michał Kiciński for 90.7 million Polish zlotys, about $25 million, in a deal announced December 29. The purchase was fully funded by outside financing, and Kiciński keeps his roughly 10% stake in CD Projekt. ¹ The Verge put the price at $25.2 million. ²

Kiciński said in January that publishing is a direction that was closed off while GOG sat inside the group. At CD Projekt Red, he said, all publishing was tied to the studio’s own games, and the company did not want to spread its attention. ³ He also co-owns Retrovibe, the indie publisher behind Project Warlock, Shardpunk and BIOTA. ³

He said then that no decisions had been made and that his first priority was improving what GOG already does, with no change in philosophy. ³⁴ The new-games thread was already in the sale announcement, which promised “new games with real retro spirit.” ² Kiciński said he is personally involved in developing a few such games, and that they will “certainly make their strong appearance on GOG in 2026.” ¹

The headline of PC Gamer’s latest report says GOG has games on the way. ⁵⁶ That squares with the 2026 timeline Kiciński gave in December.

The money behind the move is modest. In the quarter ending Q3 2025, GOG posted a net profit of $478,000, after a loss of $278,000 a year earlier. CD Projekt’s main business earned $53 million over the same period. ¹ GOG managing director Maciej Gołębiowski said a single owner means faster decisions and more appetite for risk than a listed company would have. ³

What stays the same is spelled out. CD Projekt will keep selling The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 on GOG, along with its upcoming titles. ¹² Players keep access to games they bought, and the company says policies will not change. ¹ The catalog stood at more than 11,200 games at the last public count. ¹

The open question is what a store that also publishes does to the store. Rock Paper Shotgun’s writer raised the worry that GOG-published games could get priority placement on the homepage over everyone else’s. ⁴ That is a concern from one outlet’s commentary, not anything GOG has announced.

Our read: GOG built its name on rescuing other people’s old games. Publishing makes it a seller with its own titles on the shelf, a change in role that the DRM-free pledge does not address by itself. The company has said it wants to keep its identity while adding this, and the first retro releases in 2026 will show how it balances the two.

Footnotes

1. GamesIndustry.biz, “CD Projekt RED sells GOG platform to co-founder for $25 million”. Retrieved October 28, 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

2. The Verge, “GOG’s Steam-alternative PC game store is leaving CD Projekt, staying DRM-free”. Retrieved October 28, 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Eurogamer, ““I’m not afraid of risk” - A newly independent GOG eyes indie game publishing, something it couldn’t do under CD Projekt Red”. Retrieved October 28, 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

4. Rock Paper Shotgun, “What’s next for GOG? Publishing games, maybe, but its new owner isn’t in any rush”. Retrieved October 28, 2026. ↩ ↩²

5. PC Gamer, “GOG’s getting into publishing in its new, post-CD-Projekt life, and it already has games on the way”. Retrieved October 28, 2026. ↩

6. X, “Posts on X from @pcgamer”. Retrieved October 28, 2026. ↩