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A comment on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation. Parent comment

Re:Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games... by prmoustache on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:47PM (#48754145)
Can you backup steam games and run them without steam?
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Re:Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games... by craftkiller on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:10PM (#48755132)
Many of them, yes. It's up to the individual publisher whether they want to release their game DRM-free on steam. https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_g...

If you want to guarantee that you can backup your PC games and run them without a client, then there is always https://www.gog.com/

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