You can still play Steam games without Steam. They only put basic protection on the files that can be very easily bypassed (and yes, it’s legal). See Steam Goldberg emu
And even that basic protection is optional. There are a few games on Steam that have no DRM at all, Witcher 3 (but for some reason not the remaster) and Baldurs Gate 3 for example.
This happened to me as well. I used to buy anything I could from Gog, but after getting a Steam Deck and switching to Linux on my home PC I went back to Steam due to Gog’s refusal to support Linux.
According to fireb0rn, he had no problem buying it on GOG.
0 drm, and you can play entirely offline. Gog’s def the better choice here. How’re you going to play silksong after gestures broadly goes to shit?
Seamless steam deck support is my guess
You can still play Steam games without Steam. They only put basic protection on the files that can be very easily bypassed (and yes, it’s legal). See Steam Goldberg emu
And even that basic protection is optional. There are a few games on Steam that have no DRM at all, Witcher 3 (but for some reason not the remaster) and Baldurs Gate 3 for example.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam
Well gog doesn’t have a Linux client though, while steam really does a lot for Linux gaming. I used to prefer gog but I’m back to steam for now.
This happened to me as well. I used to buy anything I could from Gog, but after getting a Steam Deck and switching to Linux on my home PC I went back to Steam due to Gog’s refusal to support Linux.
I personally prefer using a browser, so it’s to my preference. Though I don’t like gog’s interface much.
Depends on your region. GOG doesn’t have regional pricing.
I just got it a half hour ago (2025-09-04 ~3PM UTC) on GOG and can confirm – no issues at that time!
I was able to get it on gog without issue as well.
I spent 1 hour after release trying to fight Steam and then just bought it on GOG with no problem whatsoever.
Playing the linux build on Steam Deck and it runs great.