Octopath Traveler I and II Land on GOG October 8 at 70% and 60% Off, Joining the Preservation Program

By CriticalPixel · 2026-10-02

Square Enix's two HD-2D JRPGs are walking onto a store that has never carried them. Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II both release on GOG on October 8, and GOG has already confirmed they will sit inside its Preservation Program. According to RPG Site, both games get a launch discount that runs from 12 a.m. PT on October 8 until midnight on October 18: 70% off the original and 60% off the sequel. That is a ten-day window, which is plenty of time to talk yourself into buying two very long games you may not finish before the next sale.

Octopath Traveler II HD-2D screenshot from the official Steam store page

What GOG is actually promising

GOG has published store pages and trailers for both games, and wishlisting is open now. The Octopath Traveler II page currently reads Coming soon, with a note that the game was made up to today's standards as part of the GOG Preservation Program. The page also lists a Windows 11 verified badge, a GOG version changelog, tech support and what GOG calls lifetime maintenance, meaning the store says it will keep the game running years from now. That is a real service pitch, and it is the only reason this release is more interesting than another storefront checkbox.

The PC requirements on that page are friendly. Minimum is a Ryzen 3 1200 or Core i3-6100 with 8 GB of RAM and a Radeon RX 460 or GTX 750, DirectX 12 and 10 GB of storage. Recommended bumps the graphics to an RX 470, Arc A750 or GTX 1060 6GB. Nobody is going to need a new GPU to run a pixel art RPG, and that is how it should be.

The Steam price comparison

Here is the part the announcement does not mention. Both games are already discounted on Steam right now. The Octopath Traveler store page shows 70% off with a special offer valid until October 8, and the Octopath Traveler II page shows 60% off with the same October 8 end date. The percentages match GOG's launch discounts to the point. I read those pages from a Brazilian storefront, so the figures were in reais and I am not going to quote converted dollar prices as if they were official.

So the discount itself is not the exclusive hook. Steam's offers expire on October 8, the day GOG opens, and GOG then keeps its cut going through October 18. If you want the cheapest possible copy and you do not care where it lives, you can buy on Steam today at the same percentage. If you prefer GOG's version, you have ten extra days after Steam's sale ends to make up your mind. That is a decent bit of timing from GOG, and it also quietly tells you the 70% and 60% numbers are the going rate for these games, not a special favor.

Octopath Traveler II town scene in the HD-2D art style from the official Steam store page

Where else these games already live

RPG Site notes that both Octopath Traveler games are now available on PS5, PS4, Xbox, Switch, Switch 2 and PC through Steam, GOG and Xbox PC. That is a very wide footprint for a pair of games that began life as Nintendo showpieces. Square Enix has clearly decided that spreading the series across every storefront it can find is the plan, and GOG becomes the latest box ticked. You can read it as smart distribution or as a publisher chasing every last wallet, and both readings are probably true.

What players are saying

Reaction is mixed and a bit sarcastic, though the sample is small. I read the replies under the Wario64 post that surfaced the news, and a handful of people reacted. One joked that GOG said it was saving video games and then marked them down 70% like clearance finds. Another asked why these games need preserving at all if they are not that old. A third wondered whether to wait or whether Steam's price would be the same, which, going by the Steam pages, is a fair question with a fairly clear answer. A few were simply happy to have two big RPGs landing in the same week. That is limited feedback, so treat it as a mood, not a verdict.

The CriticalPixel take

The skeptical reply has a point. Preservation, as a word, belongs to games that are disappearing, and neither of these is a delisted relic. Slapping the Preservation Program label on two titles that are on every major platform looks like marketing-flavored housekeeping. What GOG is really selling is the maintenance promise: tested on Windows 11, updated through a changelog, kept alive over time. If that holds up, it is genuinely useful for anyone who has watched a Steam purchase age badly, and it is a better argument than the label.

The discounts are good, but they are a Steam match, and anyone who tracks this stuff will tell you that you are not getting a secret deal. I would also like GOG to be clearer about what the Preservation Program changes in practice for a game that was never at risk. Until then, the honest pitch is simple: if you want these two eight-traveler epics on GOG, October 8 is the day, and the sale gives you until October 18 to pull the trigger. If you do not care about the storefront, you could have saved money on Steam before the clock runs out.

Octopath Traveler II battle screen from the official Steam store page

Either way, this is a solid fall for JRPG fans with a backlog that never shrinks. Two games, two storefronts, and roughly the same discount on both. Pick your launcher, pick your traveler and try not to start both on the same weekend.