Tired of Clicking “Next” on GOG Installers? Not Anymore.
If you’re like me, you love DRM-free games from GOG. But there’s one thing that drives me absolutely crazy: DLC installation.
You buy a game like Stellaris or Pathfinder, download the offline backup installers, and suddenly you’re staring at 20+ separate messy executable files. Installing them means launching each one, waiting for the wizard, clicking “Next” five times, waiting for it to finish, and repeating the process until you lose your mind.
I decided enough was enough over the weekend and wrote a solution.
Introducing the GOG Silent Installer
I’ve published a small toolkit on GitHub that automates this entire process. It’s designed to be completely foolproof.
How it Works
Instead of manually running each installer, you can now add a simple “Send To” shortcut to your Windows context menu.
The new workflow:
- Select all your DLC installer files in Explorer.
- Right-click > Send to > GOG Silent Installer.
- Grab a coffee while it installs everything silently in the background.
No wizard screens. No “Click Next”. No “Exit to finish”. It just works.
For the Tech-Savvy
Under the hood, it’s a PowerShell script that wraps the standard Inno Setup silent flags (
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/VERYSILENT |
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/NORESTART |
, etc.). It intelligently filters for executables and processes them sequentially so your PC doesn’t choke on launching 50 installers at once.
It also comes with a setup script that handles the boring part of adding the shortcut to your
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shell:sendto |
folder, so you don’t have to fiddle with paths manually.
Go Grab It
It’s open source, free, and available right now. If you have a backlog of GOG games you haven’t installed because it’s a hassle, give it a try!