Developer and publisher CD Projekt RED (CDPR) has sold distribution platform GOG to one of its founders for PLN 90.7 million (around US$25 million/£18.6 million).
Mishał Kicinski, one of the members of the team that founded CD Projekt RED and GOG (originally known as Good Old Games), is now the sole owner of GOG. The purchase was financed entirely through external financing, and Kiciński remains CDPR's second-largest individual shareholder, owning 10% of the company's shares.
The deal includes CDPR's commitment to continue publishing its own games, including The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 franchises, on the GOG platform, along with its original mission to preserve classic games. According to the company's latest public statement, GOG's catalog currently contains more than 11,200 games. The company said that users will still retain access to all purchased games, policies will not change, and any donations or direct funding will continue to directly support the platform. An FAQ published along with the announcement states that the platform is financially stable and “has had a truly encouraging year” in which we have seen “more enthusiasm from gamers for our mission than ever before.”
GOG was enthusiastic supporter of the arthouse release Santa Ragione Horses After this, the game was blocked on Steam and the Epic Game Store. In August, as part of the Freedomtobuy.games initiative, a package of games was distributed for free indicate the platform’s commitment to the buyer’s choice after Steam and itch.io changed their approach to listing adult content.
“GOG and Michael Kiciński share a common belief that games should last forever,” said Maciej Goliczewski, Managing Director of GOG, in a press release. “In a market that's increasingly crowded, more insular, and increasingly forgetting classic games, we're doubling down on what only GOG does: reviving classics, keeping them playable on modern PCs, and helping great games find audiences over time.”
Kiciński also emphasized that “GOG has always been looking for new games with a retro feel,” saying that he is “personally involved in the development of several similar games, and they will certainly appear on GOG in 2026.”
The sale simplifies CDPR's operations by removing a business unit that generated very little overall revenue. In the company's latest earnings report for the period ending in the third quarter of 2025, GOG posted a net profit of $478,000 (PLN 1.7 million) after a loss of $278,000 for the same period in 2024. Meanwhile, CDPR's core business generated a net profit of $53 million (PLN 19.1 million) in the 2025 period.
The bulk of the company's developers are currently working on The Witcher 4, and the team working on Cyberpunk 2 is expanding out of its new North American hub in Boston. The company is also working on Project Sirius, a multiplayer game set in the Witcher universe, and a new IP called Project Hadar.
