[sershe]

They are merely trying to commoditize their complement https://gwern.net/complement

Your games are still not owned by you, they are locked inside your Steam account (liable to be suspended at any time) and app (as I've learned when I couldn't play when their pretend-but-not-really-offline mode broke; I now block it at firewall level most of the time). That part will never become "community" oriented.

[preisschild]

Steam Games can definitely be DRM free too. Its the developer/publishers choice.

[sershe]

Can you actually download these games like one can with GOG? As far as I can tell, even indie games require steam to run.

DRM is also kind of orthogonal to their terms. Ubisoft has their own DRM; let's say I am ok with Ubisoft's since at least they made the game, would I be able to play Anno that I "purchased" on Steam if Valve suspends my Steam account for some random reason?

[preisschild]

> Can you actually download these games like one can with GOG?

To download and update Steam games you obviously need Steam, but once DRM free games are downloaded you can keep playing them without Steam.

Heck, we even shared some drm-free games someone bought in my friends-group over a personal torrent among us, so we could play coop with each other to test the game out before we bought it ourselves.

[blibble]

yes

I copied FTL, and Into The Breach out of my steam directory to another machine

and they work fine