One way I’ve benefited from this is by using Epic’s free games deals. They’re a bit iffy over the summer, but during the holiday season they gave away a bunch o

One way I’ve benefited from this is by using Epic’s free games deals. They’re a bit iffy over the summer, but during the holiday season they gave away a bunch of games like the Metro series, the Tomb Raider series etc. I have a founders subscription which makes it good value but even without, by maximising the free games potential and Steam sales etc, I have a great gaming library I can spin up in a minute or two without needing a gaming PC. Not had noticeable latency issues. YMMV as always, but if I ever decide to build a gaming PC, I have those games in my Steam or Epic library and can run them locally (and most games will sync saves etc. so no progress lost). One game that really pissed me off was Elite: Frontiers because they decided they were no longer going to support macOS, but I was able to continue playing just by using GFN. So the argument of “once you’ve bought it once, you can play it forever” doesn’t really hold true for games you download and run locally in all cases either.