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Re:DX-Ball by nixroot on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:53AM (#28886497)
Steam is pretty DRM free. Games have Steam integration which checks if your account owns the game, but they don't attempt to prevent tampering like true DRM does. If Steam were to disappear you could easily un-steam your games.

GOG also bans third party DRM software. It's great, but big publishers don't like that which is why GOG is mostly indie.

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Re:DX-Ball by Wowfunhappy on Saturday October 16, 2021 @07:54AM (#28887210)
> If Steam were to disappear you could easily un-steam your games.

Speaking as someone who actually does this (because I despise the Steam client), it’s not easy. Different games need different Steam emulators to work, and titles that seem to run initially will break in weird ways mid-game.

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Re:DX-Ball by MikusR on Saturday October 16, 2021 @05:04AM (#28886537)
This burger is mostly meat free except for the beef used to make the burger
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Re:DX-Ball by captn3m0 on Saturday October 16, 2021 @06:27AM (#28886862)
https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

While not huge, it is a pretty big list.

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Re:DX-Ball by Wowfunhappy on Saturday October 16, 2021 @08:42AM (#28887456)
It's a big list because there are a lot of games on Steam. However, the chance that any given Steam game in your library will be DRM Free is very small. I've also had cases in the past where I bought a game because it was on this list, but the list was seemingly wrong because the game had DRM.

I've actually had much better luck with the Epic Game Store, although it's seemingly not as good as it used to be.

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