As opposed to Steam, GOG will let you create backups of your games that will survive GOG itself. GOG provides offline backup installers that don’t need a launcher, internet or anything.
I always tell everyone to at least get a fully DRM-free copy of their favorite childhood gaming memory.
Gabadabs@kbin.social 8 months ago
It is, but most of their library is DRM free, so once you download it, those files are yours. Steam won't let you launch a game without logging into your account, gog doesn't even check.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is this for real? I’m able to go to the folder on my hard drive and launch steam games without opening steam.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Steam has a drm system, not everything uses it though
kadu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ninchuka@lemmy.one 8 months ago
not all games on steam use the DRM
HKayn@dormi.zone 8 months ago
Are you able to launch all your Steam games without Steam?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
It’s almost certainly still going through steam. Steam has a .dll in all your game folders and it interacts with Steam. You don’t have to launch it through the launcher for it to use Steam. If you ever pirate a game and look at the crack files, there will often be that same name .dll in it. This is to bypass that Steam interface. If the game came from GoG it won’t even have a crack. It just works.
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Huhh. Very unusual. You don’t already have steam open?
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nope.