GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead

You can't bequeath your Steam account to your loved ones when the sad day of your passing comes around, at least not without breaking the TOS, but it turns out you can leave your GOG games to someone—as long as everyone involved is willing to do some legwork up front.

Nobody likes to think about this sort of thing too much, and when we do I imagine we're generally more focused on what needs to be deleted rather than what should be left for others. (Or maybe that's just me?) But most of us have accumulated sizable digital game libraries over the years, and it's a genuinely awful waste to let them be lost, especially when we know others who would appreciate such a gift.

Giving someone your username and password is easy enough, but legally bequeathing a digital library turns out to be a lot trickier. Valve is a hard «no» on the matter—which I suppose is actually quite simple, if not the desired response—but GOG says it will try to accommodate such requests, as long as those left behind can prove that everything is on the up-and-up.

«As you may know, GOG does not collect information sufficient to truly identify a particular person (such as name and surname) or their family or marital status,» GOG said in a statement provided to PC Gamer. «For this reason, we are not able to establish that someone is related to a particular user or that a particular user has passed away.

»In general, your GOG account and GOG content is not transferable. However, if you can obtain a copy of a court order that specifically entitles someone to your GOG personal account, the digital content attached to it taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it, and that specifically refers to your GOG username or at least email address used to create such an account, we'd do our best to make it happen. We're willing to handle such a situation and preserve your GOG library—but currently we can only do it with the help of the justice system."

GOG noted in its statement that one of the big