recently built my very first pc and was looking for sites to get games from ( >:) ) and now i cant stop downloading games. i dont even play them all - i just keep collecting them because they might be interesting or because ive heard that they are good. i’m also super happy that my rig is good enough to play them all without too many compromises :D
Basically every indie game on steam is also just yours to own.
Steam “drm” is entirely optional and can even just be turned off locally in any game more or less. Either just by throwing a simple txt file with the app id in the root folder or just removing the dll that hooks steams overlay into the game.
Strictly speaking the only reason steam games need steam to run at all is because the dll is hooking into steam cloud/overlay and community services. Hench why games “fail” to launch if steam isn’t on. The dll is unable to load the overlay so it crashes, your missing dependencies.
If you don’t need or want them they are optional tho with the simple removal of the dll or appid txt file.
Seriously you can just remove the steam API dll from silksong and it runs entirely locally. Same with RimWorld, factario, terraria, cave of qud, etc.
Steam IS a drm free platform by default. The mandatory requirement is opt in for devs.
I only point this out cause for some fucking reason this once common knowledge has been lost to time. And for some reason everyone thinks steam doesn’t allow you to play your games with out it.
Itchi and gog are great stores but they don’t have everything. And people shouldn’t feel limited because of nonsense like lack of knowledge of their options.