PC GOG Release?!

Yes, steam or GOG, it will be pirated anyways. It may not always be the case, but especially when it comes to indie games, piracy can be beneficial and act as marketing. The majority of loses comes from AAA titles. A DRM in some cases, can be more harmful to the game than piracy.

https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/gog-indie-game-store-piracy-gaming

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy-doesnt-hurt-game-sales-may-actually-help/

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/180277/Some_indies_dont_fight_piracy_they_embrace_it.php

 
There really is no need for this game to be on gog. Its on steam, its on humble bundle, its on Greenman gaming, and Games Planet. All of which have fairly frequent sales.
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All the other venues you listed are just key sellers for steam keys of 7d2d, the underlying "tech" is steam, the game is downloaded from steam and "supervised" from steam. People asking for gog usually want a DRM-free method of getting the game. Even though steams DRM is relatively benign and developers can elect to not have any DRM in the game executable itself, which a knowledable user then can use exactly like a game from gog.

 
An 99% of GOG's catalog is old games. They do have some newer games but they are vastly outnumbered by old games that the companies don't really care about if they are pirated or not.

 
An 99% of GOG's catalog is old games. They do have some newer games but they are vastly outnumbered by old games that the companies don't really care about if they are pirated or not.
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I don't know any percentage about the back-catalog but a quick sampling just now showed that old games make about 1/6th or less of all new entries on gog. GOG began with old games but after the low hanging fruits of old classics with owners still reachable had been drying up years ago they changed to a full-fledged game store.

steam is still nr. 1 by far, no question about that, even if you remove all the "fake games" clicked together from unity engine assets. Only very few AAA games use it, but a sizable portion of the "bigger" independent games release on gog (the really small games don't because gog still curates which games release on their platform).

For example games by obsidian, inxile and larian release on gog. And just now Darksiders III, Pathfinder Kingmaker and Cuphead make/made their intial release on gog too.

 
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