lgogdownloader
Shares rank 4 of 5 HTTP clients by recommenders
Free, open-source tool that people use to back up GOG game installers to a local drive, with maintainers who can be contacted directly.
Free, open-source tool that people use to back up GOG game installers to a local drive, with maintainers who can be contacted directly.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Used for local GOG installer backups
“GOG has allowed third party backup software like https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader to exist.”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?” “I still do regular backups of GOG installers to a local hard drive with lgogdownloader”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client” Open source with reachable developers
“And they are open source, I can go and talk to the people making these clients directly”
Comment from 29 Dec 2025 in “GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you” Listed among Linux game-download options
“there are plenty of options, including projects like Lutris and lgogdownloader”
Comment from 29 Dec 2025 in “GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you”
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| curl | 100 | 26 | 79% | 12 | — | Approved |
| wget | 19 | 1 | 95% | 10 | — | Approved |
| HTTPie | 7 | 1 | 88% | 6 | — | — |
| lgogdownloaderThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
| curl-impersonate | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
4 of the 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I still do regular backups of GOG installers to a local hard drive with lgogdownloader”
“And they are open source, I can go and talk to the people making these clients directly”
“there are plenty of options, including projects like Lutris and lgogdownloader”
“GOG has allowed third party backup software like https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader to exist.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.