Enebias: I was about to buy Gorky 17, then I remembered this thread (and I noticed many others before me remembered it as well).

Since I am living a very similar situation right now, there is absolutely no chance that I will give my money to those vile bloodsuckers.
I already fed too many beasts of that kind with my hard-earned money: I will NEVER help them again.
Supporting THAT kind of business would make me just as rotten as them.
Since they seem to have gone bankrupt, I hope to see Gorky 17 published here by another company at a later date. That day, I will add it to my library.

opeter1: GOG, I was double charged and I don't know, why. I already sent you a support ticket.

Matruchus: Probably TopWare trying to rip you off :) LOL
Seriously though gog will sort you out.

Erich_Zann: The games are nothing alike save the alternated real-time exploration (quite barebones in case of Gorky 17) and turn-based combat.

Gorky 17 is, in practice, more puzzle-like : combat is grid-based and weapons have patterns of attack instead of pure range ; that is, for instance some guns can only fire orthogonally, some only diagonally, some both but with a minimum range, etc. Enemies behave the same, which makes for a more chess-like combat.
The fact that the grid is made of squares kind of reinforces that, as is the fact that all fights are set pieces : you can't place your troops beforehand and battles start out of the blue, jRPG-like. So if the scripts dictates that you will be ambushed, you'll be ambushed. If the script dictates that somehow your troops are suddenly a board apart before combat begins, so be it.

All in all a fun game for a playthrough, with some battles providing quite decent challenge. Just be forewarned and don't go in expecting Jagged Alliance or Silent Storm. Maybe a more apt comparison, mutatis mutandis, would be Nintendo Wars.