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The age old question we should be asking about all Online gaming store.

Definitive answer: No, there is no legal way.

Upon account creation and purchase, you accepted GOG's user agreement, which states explicitly:

3.3 Your GOG account and GOG content are personal to you and cannot be shared with, sold, gifted or transferred to anyone else.

Sorry for that! :(

Ask GOG support. One user did in the past with a more positive response:-
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/what_happens_to_gog_account/post3

I assume rites of death are an exception (even legally so) to policy 3.3.

Bear in mind the e-mail address associated with the account needs to be accessible as well. Otherwise, sooner or later, the account will be inaccessible due to two-factor authentication.

Yes there is a way.

All software products will become public domain... eventually.
As GOG offers DRM-free games, you only need to download them, keep them stored on some media, wait for the copyrights to expire, and you can legally have some people using your collection again.

Obviously there is a caveat, assuming a person dies very soon, and the copyrights expire after a long time, there can be a century or more when those games cannot be installed or played.

But technically speaking, ignoring the time factor, you can transfer your collection to your grandchildren or some other future relatives. Whether it makes any sense to do so is another matter, because after those games are public domain, they can download them elsewhere too.
Maybe there is some added family heritage value if they are files that grandfather originally downloaded, who knows.

1) Download all your games onto an HDD and put in your last will, who shall inherit it.

2) If you want to enable your heir to update the games on that HDD, insert:
- A) your account details, and
- B) your email details connected to the account.

Of course, you can completely skip the first step, if you go with step 2.
In that case simply put your account/email details in your last will and decide who shall get those.

Done.

For natewrench to "pass it on"? No.

Sure, his offspring can wait for games to get into the public domain ... some time in the 2060s, 70s, or 80s ... well good luck with that. But he can "pass on" absolutely nothing, because he virtually signed a contract that explicitly says he can not.

Sorry again. ;)

I'll get it, because I'm the most deserving user on Gog.
So if you intend to die soon anyway, no reason to put it off, your games will be in good hands with me.

Not sure why you would assume that, but I'm 99% sure that assumption is incorrect.

Here is an old article which details how and why Steam doesn't allow the transferring of accounts/games upon death of the account holder, which is because Steam didn't sign contracts with publishers that would allow for that to happen:

https://www.eurogamer.net/what-happens-to-your-steam-account-when-you-die

So, if your quoted statement was correct, then that would mean GOG somehow negotiated contracts where the publishers allowed their games on GOG to be transferred upon death.

In other words, publishers would have agreed to be giving GOG customers special benefits that they refuse to give to their Steam customers (not that I consider transferring accounts upon death to be "special benefits," as I think it should be allowed, but from the publishers' point of view, they are special benefits).

No way that is reality. For it to be reality, that would require GOG to have pulled off a miracle, which GOG most certainly did not do.

Also, if GOG did pull off such a miracle, then they certainly would be shouting it as loudly as they can, frequently, and making it a main part of the their marketing motto just like "a curated selection of DRM-free games" currently is.

They'd be promoting the heck out of the fact that they are the only store that allows digital games to be transferred after death.

But the reason why GOG never actually says a word about that in reality, is because they surely have not negotiated any such thing.

I initially read this as "can I take it with me in the afterlife and log in from there". To which I can only reply: "It doesn't seem to be against anything in the user agreement, so sure. I just hope they got fiber in the Elysian Fields." :P Make an engram of yourself and deploy it onto your son's body, Arasaka style?

Yeah, they're called back up installers.
They're GOG's best feature, so you might as well use it.

Short answer: Don't die.
Long answer: Take all your earthly possessions with you into the afterworld.