After being removed then bundled with Enhanced Edition
You can once again buy the fan-created ScummVM release of 1997’sBlade Runneradventure game via GOG. The fan version was removed from the store a little over a week ago when Nightdive Studios released their ownBlade Runner: Enhanced Edition, thenswiftly bundled together with that remasterwhen people complained.
Head to theBlade Runner page on GOGand it will default to the fanmade version. You can click a dropdown marked “Edition” in order to switch your purchase over to Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, should you wish.
Both versions cost the same and the Enhanced Edition still comes bundled together with the fan version. That means that you’re effectively making a choice over who you want to give your money to: Nightdive Studios for the Enhanced Edition, or the Blade Runner game’s rights holders for the fan version. Because, no, there’s no version of this where the fans get any money for the years of work they put in reverse engineering Westwood’s original game to run on modern computers.
All of this is has become an issue because the Nightdive Studios version is inferior to the fanmade Blade Runner release in several ways. Its attempts to increase the resolution of pre-rendered scenes, and to use machine learning to turn 15fps video into 60fps video, result in a game that loses the atmosphere the original captured so well, and sometimes just looks outright ugly. There are also glitches,as Alice0 lamented when she played it for us at launch.
