Estate planning as a GOG account holder
GOG sp. z o.o. (Michal Kicinski) reviews transfer requests for accounts individually upon receipt of documentation
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GOG is a DRM-free gaming platform. Unlike other major gaming platforms, GOG games come with standalone offline backup installers that work independently of the account, the GOG GALAXY client, and GOG's servers. This makes GOG one of the few major gaming platforms where downloaded games can practically survive account loss. GOG also operates a Preservation Program that maintains classic titles for compatibility with modern operating systems. A GOG account holds a digital game library, GOG Wallet funds, cloud saves (via GOG GALAXY), and wishlist/review data. GOG sp. z o.o. is a Polish company headquartered at ul. Jagiellonska 74, 03-301 Warsaw, Poland; the platform is operated independently from CD PROJEKT following co-founder Michal Kicinski's acquisition of 100% of GOG in late December 2025.
GOG sp. z o.o. (Michal Kicinski) reviews transfer requests for GOG accounts on a case-by-case basis after the account holder's death. Approval is at the company's sole discretion, and documentation requirements must be met before any transfer is considered.
What happens at death
GOG publishes no death, bereavement, or estate policy at all. The GOG User Agreement classifies accounts and content as personal and non-transferable: section 3.3 reads "Your GOG account and GOG content are personal to you and cannot be shared with, sold, gifted or transferred to anyone else." Section 8.2 applies the same rule to Virtual Goods, which "cannot be 'bought', 'sold', gifted, transferred or redeemed." Nothing in the Agreement addresses what happens on the account holder's death, so there is no automatic forfeiture clause and no automatic transfer right -- any request is handled individually through general GOG Support. GOG has been reported in the gaming press (June 2024, attributed to GOG spokesperson Zuzanna Rybacka) as willing to consider an account transfer where a court order specifically entitles a named person to the account, covers the digital content and the EULAs of the games in it, and names the GOG username or account email; that statement has never been published on a GOG-owned page and could not be corroborated on one. Independently of the account question, GOG's DRM-free model means offline backup installers already downloaded function without any account, client, or server, so already-downloaded game files remain usable regardless of account status.
Planning your estate
Protecting GOG accounts while the account is active
No beneficiary designation, accounts can only be redeemed, not transferred, and 7-step plan.
View details →When someone dies
Handling GOG accounts after a death
Transfer is handled on a case-by-case basis, 7-step process, and 5 required documents.
View details →There is no beneficiary designation option for GOG. This means accounts cannot be directed to a specific person through the program itself, unlike traditional financial accounts.
Frequently asked questions
GOG documents installing games "without the app, using the offline installer": sign in at gog.com/account, select a game, and click "DOWNLOAD OFFLINE BACKUP GAME INSTALLERS." Those setup files run from a download folder without the GOG GALAXY client. For estate purposes that means a hard drive of GOG installers keeps working after the account is gone, which is not true of platforms that authenticate every launch. The single most useful estate planning step for a GOG library is downloading those installers during life.
GOG has not published this on its own site. The description in circulation comes from a June 2024 press statement attributed to GOG: the order should specifically entitle a named person to the decedent's GOG account, cover the digital content attached to it while taking into account the EULAs of the specific games within it, and reference the GOG username or at least the email address used to create the account. Treat this as a reported position rather than a published policy, and expect GOG to review any request individually.
GOG publishes no inactivity deletion policy. The only deletion route documented is the user-initiated one: pressing DELETE ACCOUNT in account settings sends a confirmation request to the account email, after which the profile is permanently deleted within 14 days. The deletion can be cancelled from account settings during those 14 days; afterwards GOG states removal is permanent and irrevocable. The absence of a dormancy policy gives an estate more time to locate an account than platforms that purge after a fixed period of non-use.
Per GOG's own instructions, access the account with a browser at gog.com/account, select a game, click "DOWNLOAD OFFLINE BACKUP GAME INSTALLERS" and download all necessary setup files, then run the install application from the download folder. The GOG GALAXY app is optional and is not required to install or play. Store the installers on an external drive for a complete backup of the decedent's library, and repeat for bonus content where a title offers it.
No. Section 3.3 of the User Agreement makes the account and its content personal and non-transferable, and section 8.2 applies the same rule to Virtual Goods, which "cannot be 'bought', 'sold', gifted, transferred or redeemed, exchanged for other Virtual Goods, 'real world' money, goods, services or items of monetary value." GOG keys and codes can only be gifted or transferred in the ways GOG permits. Wallet funds can be used to buy a gift copy of a game for another GOG user, but the funds themselves cannot be moved.
Sources
Data sourced from GOG sp. z o.o. (Michal Kicinski) primary sources (8 pages reviewed). How we research.
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