Question about some old great RPGs that are not on Steam.

https://reddit.com/r/neverwinternights/comments/n07zfp/may_an_enhanced_or_remastered_neverwinter_nights/gwfzifm/

All the IE games + NWN1 were made by Bioware. Beamdog team is made up of people who used to work at Bioware, so the transition was pretty much obvious.

NWN2 was made by Obsidian. The rights to NWN2 were in the hands of Atari, which was later absorbed by EA and so now Hasbro has the right to its name. So not even Obsidian has the rights to remake it, and if they did, Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart said in a talk that NWN2 almost bankrupted them because the game involved too many resources they didn't know they needed (which explains why there are so many missing animations and some spells and FX are half baked) so he has some PTSD about it.

Wizards of the Coast owns D&D, but they don't own Neverwinter Nights 2.

So no, a remaster o enhanced version, at this point in life, is very much never going to happen.

I love NWN2, more than NWN1, but at this point, NWN2 is more of a risk than an assured success. Because even though there's still an audience for the game, the audience is "stuck in time" for a game that is now being crushed by newer titles and an enhanced version wouldn't (statistically speaking) surpass the investment nor compete with better games already established.```

For older games GOG contacts the rights-holders and makes a deal with them. Now, most of these games won't work out of the box so GOG has to work on them to make sure they're playable on modern systems. Other companies, like Nightdive, similarly acquire licenses for older games and work on them, and are able to publish them on many platforms including Steam.

Keep in mind that GOG was a website that, as far as I know, started primarily with having older game titles (Hence the name). Maybe they tried to make more of an effort to get these games on their platform, since it was their primary focus back then.

And in either case, if you do want all your games in one handy launcher, you can as hbarkas already mentioned, add them to steam as non-steam games, or you can use GOG's launcher, which now integrates with all sorts of other launchers, such as Steam for instance.

You can use GOG Galaxy 2.0 to manage all your games across all platforms