GOG has announced the launch of their GOG Preservation Program, a new focus for their company using their own resources to preserve classic games to run on modern and future PC platforms.

The new GOG Preservation Program already offers over a hundred classic Windows games, which you can view over on its official catalog site, ranging from the original Diablo to Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and more, all now showing the new “Preserved by GOG” stamp.

“GOG, founded 16 years ago to preserve games, has made 2024 pivotal with the restoration of Alpha Protocol and classic Resident Evil titles,” GOG managing director Maciej Golębiewski said in a press release. “These releases embody our work: reviving games built on outdated, bespoke tech that original creators can no longer maintain. With the GOG Preservation Program, we continue our mission to make games live forever.”

Here’s a brief blurb on the program, plus a trailer:

The GOG Preservation Program ensures classic games remain playable on modern systems, even after their developers stopped supporting them. By maintaining these iconic titles, GOG helps you protect and relive the memories that shaped you, DRM-free and with dedicated tech support.

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.