Might be a notable exception but i have almost a thousand of those exceptions :-P. Also while Steam itself is needed for the initial download, some games can ju

Might be a notable exception but i have almost a thousand of those exceptions :-P. Also while Steam itself is needed for the initial download, some games can just be copied to another place and work fine, especially indie games that do not bother with DRM. A bigger issue is the Steamworks APIs but if you only care about singleplayer games there are drop-in replacements like Goldberg's emulator[0] which is opensource (LGPL). (also there are more places to buy DRM-free games than only GOG - e.g. itch.io, Zoom Platform, GamersGate and Humble Store to name a few - though GOG has most of the games) [0] https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator