Is there a way to ignore some games from the GOG list?
Or at least mark them as "not interested"?

There are some games that I don't own, don't like, and there is absolutely no chance I shall ever purchase. I would like to filter them out somehow from the rest and stop seeing them. Is there a way to do it?

I agree we need a "Not Interested" button but I doubt GOG will do it. If they did it'd certainly help them see which games people don't want and maybe help them make better choices on which games to bring into the store.

Not gonna happen, because obviously (unless someone makes a userscript).

If people are allowed to mark games as "never show me this", it's going to be used to temporarily hide games a user isn't interested in at the moment. Interests are transient, and a company with a permanent noncontroversial inventory isn't going to allow blacklisting some of it and miss out on the sales.

Source: am certified expert on recommenders.

Well, you could ask Barefoot to include this option in his Essentials. A 'hide owned games' option is already there. So maybe it wouldn't be too difficult to add a 'hide this game' option.

Some adblocker custom filter rule could probably do that for you.

But what about just don't clicking on game pages you are not interested in?

The site seems geared towards purposefully making it hard to navigate to individual games of interest by leaving out features such as this, or detailed price filtering (where you punch in the price range yourself, not pre-determined ranges), or price sorting, etc. I think the general idea is if you can't easily sort and filter the game list the way that you'd like to in order to optimize your time and effort, that you then have to manually pore over much more of the catalogue, and they're hoping that you will find and buy games you wouldn't have if you could get to what you wanted right away.

That might actually increase sales with some users, but I know for me it causes me to buy less because I can't easily filter out what I don't want and filter in what I do want. As the store gets more and more games it becomes ever increasingly hard to filter out stuff I just do not want to see and will never buy.

The sad thing is that the amount of effort it takes to write a simple price sort and some simple filters should be a few days to a week at best, and that's giving them the benefit of doubt IMHO. It's not that they can't or wont do it, it's that it just isn't a priority for whatever reason.

They need to allocate their developer resources very carefully due to finite resources, so that they can work on things like removing the option to configure where your downloads get stored for example. Such features don't invent themselves afterall! :)


All seriousness aside though, and on a humorous note now... I wonder how much longer it will be until Adalia Fundamentals and Barefoot Essentials are comprised of more code than the GOG website is.

</it's a joke> :oP

For specific searching and filtering, there is also the magog search engine.

You aren't the first one to wish for this feature. There's nil chance of it coming but please vote nevertheless.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/blacklist_like_opposite_of_wishlist_for_games

Your best chance is some scripted addon like Adalia Fundamentals.

I think this is unlikely, would lead to less impulse buying and overall would be a bad business decision most likely... what you may dislike today doesn't mean you won't have a different view tomorrow. As others have said, using some kind of script would be more practical and realistic.

There's a chance that they do it because steam finally did and GOG seems to want to copy them.

I didn't know that!
I 've just checked it and it looks awsome!
Thanks! Thanks for mentioning it. I have just voted for it.

GoG doesn't want to copy Steam. There are functions which Steam has that GoG is also adding because people want those functions.

The "Not interested" feature was added because people wanted filter out the vast amount of crap on Steam.

However, it was only added because is benefits VALVe. For its primary function is to allow VALVe to better target its Advertisements (game suggestions) to you.

I don't remember anyone wanting regional pricing. Give GOG time, look how long it took them to even start building a client.

I can. Some even still post about it now, in 2017.