This was previously available as a opt in beta, but is now available for everyone.

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      The catch is that many game publishers won’t release their games on GOG, or wait for several years after release before they start to sell it there.

      Technically, Steam DRM is optional and any publishers who want to can sell their games through steam without any form of DRM. The game files are transferable, and you don’t need steam running or logged in to run the game. But most publishers don’t want DRM removed, and so it’s pretty rare.

      Here’s a list of Steam games that have DRM disabled. There’s also a number of games that will run DRM free if you put a txt file with the game’s steam ID number in it.

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      You own the games on steam too. It’s the same thing, steam just has a front end with graphics.

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          No, many steam games use steam to verify if you own the game. It’s up to developers if they require their game to have steam drm or not.

          If the game doesn’t have Steam DRM, you can just copy the game folder and run it anywhere. But many games will require steam (with an account that owns the game) to be running before they’ll open.

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            See, that’s what I thought, because I have tried to put a game once on another PC and it didn’t work. So, it makes sense now, it depends on the devs. This is why I like gog. You just have the .exe and you can install it anywhere you want

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          Yup. They’re just files. You’ll want to move the entire game folder for steam, the install file doesn’t come with the games.

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            I see, it makes sense as the game would have a bunch of dependencies that are all over that folder. Thank you, I didn’t know that.