• katy ✨
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    7 hours ago

    me: steam is terrible; it’s just drm with a nice bow on top

    steam: steam visual novel fest starts now

    me: i love steam stuffs more items on my wishlist

    (for real tho itch.io and gog are much better use them - and download the actual offline installers from gog don’t use galaxy)

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      GOG Galaxy isn’t bad to use. It has cloud saves, and update checking - which is useful for some people. And games installed using the offline installers still show up in galaxy (and can be updated etc.) In fact, you can download the offline installers from the Galaxy app itself if you want to.

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        2 hours ago

        yeah it wasn’t necessarily an alternative; i was just saying they’re better because they tend to support indie devs and/or are more drm free than steam. i didn’t know of a purely non american one that i use :(

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          54 minutes ago

          Apparently GOG is Polish. DRM free, too; the one time I used it it literally just gave me the raw game files, like back in the day.

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            i didn’t know they were polish but yup! for most games you can go into your account and download all the manuals and exes/pkgs for any game you own!