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GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers. (x.com)

submitted 1 month ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have plenty drm free games in steam where I copied the game folder into other computers and it ran offline. At that point, there's no difference between an installer and a compressed copy of that game. For reference, Grim dawn but there's plenty more.

"Installing" is just semantics for decompressing a file in specific folders, you can the collect that data and "install" the game wherever. As long as you can run the game without steam, it doesn't matter that you used steam to buy it.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

You're right! Some games on Steam are DRM-free.

All games on GOG are DRM-free as a rule.