Free Steam Alternatives

cd projekt red. Good consumer practices, no drm, ethical threatment of developers

you own your games for real and there is better quality control.

The curated content means that there's significantly less absolute crap than you'll find on Steam. DRM free means no DRM treating you like a pirate when you're just trying to play the game you bought. I love GoG Galaxy 2.0 as a launcher, since it can also add in games from other services, although I am sad that there's no native Linux client yet. Overall, just great stuff.

GOG is a store where you actually buy game, while Steam is a store where you rent game, most people sadly don't know that and think they own their Steam game.

GOG cares about game, Steam cares about copyright and money.

Having the standard of only selling DRM free products is great. Also I believe many older games have been made compatible with modern OS's because the efforts and funds of gog, which is an effort I very much appreciate.

GOG offers the exact same software you get on Steam... except bundled with mystery software that you can't opt out of.

DRM Free games, that's already a lot!

Quite possibly the best place available to lose an afternoon digging through both free and paid indie games ever since Desura kicked the bucket.

Live life, breathe air. I know somehow we're gonna get there, and it'll be so wonderful.

In my experience, it's one of the few that are both user-friendly and developer-friendly at the same time.

A bunch of unvetted shovelware titles, many of which have only minutes of gameplay if that

Lots of free and paid games and most don't require installers so you don't need admin.

While it has a ways to go UI and UX-wise, the Epic store has a good game selection, is significantly more picky than Steam's We'll Take Anything attitude that leads to boatloads of crapware, and does a better job of supporting developers. Sure, it's a front for aa huge corporation, but it's not like Steam is much better.

different games and encourages competition in the industry, its good

Epic Games forces games (not all) who were announced to release on other distribution platforms to release exclusively on their storefront.

Whatever you said Steam is just more easy to use and more widespread than Epic Games, but EGS itself is quite good

Good bye Steam Hello EGS!

Great alternative to Steam, as paying out more revenue to developers.

Awful. I made an effort a while back to delete the application as soon as possible even if that meant not being able to play a legal copy of The Sims 4. It just wasn't worth that for me. So much unnecessary bloat for reasons I'm still trying to figure out.

it costs very little (£20) for a year pass on origin, the year pass gives you a lot of EA games and 10% off any purchases in-game. It also has very clean UI. Overall a great service.

Even years later, Origin just isn't a good software manager, with installations often breaking and needing to be reinstalled from a known good state, occasionally destroying folders unrelated to Origin, frequent remote code exploits, and credit card leaks.

Small library of games. Uncomfortable chat. Extra launcher, which is only needed for EA, not to pay third-party companies for promotion.

It's just not Steam. Honestly at this point in time using any other method is better than using Steam.

It has game that Steam hasn't

Lutris isn't exactly a store, the way Steam is, but it's great for managing large game libraries, and even supports seamless emulation.

Many Installers are broken and users are welcomed to guess which and how... Mix of minefield and junkyard in practice. Just save your time.

Very decent and no need to install it for most phones

Only for mobile and isnt game orianted, also lacks everything besides buying apps

Only for mobile games. Steam is only for PC games (until Steam Deck becomes available)

Almost purely used for the Ubisoft catalog (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, etc.) but a much tighter offering than it was when it launched in 2009.

Most of indie titles are born here before going to steam