Steam Deck compatibility - not exactly fair, but it is what it is
Steam Input - I tend to piggy back off Steam using Heroic Launcher
library organisation features - I think Heroic has this now though? I use Linux, so I don’t know if galaxy has this
family library sharing
That said, I think GOG is fine. But to say it has the same features as Steam is silly, I only mentioned the ones I care about, but there are plenty more.
Thanks for the correction. I play through Heroic and haven’t really needed to use what you listed, probably why it’s a blind spot for me. But it’s also why I prefer GOG, no downsides for me.
Another one: steam has some sort of multiplayer integration for devs, so they don’t need to host their own servers and you don’t need to expose ports; instead you can add people using your steam friends. Found this out to my sadness when I bought risk of rain 1 on Gog and the multiplayer was completely gutted compared to my friend who bought on steam.
That’s a great feature indeed. And then there’s their CO-OP feature making couch coop online a thing.
It’s starting to feel like an advertisement for Steam, but they hardly need it 😄
I can relate to the port forwarding troubles. That’s been the biggest hurdle about gaming for decades. Idk if lan-emulating solutions can circumvent. Back in the day there were Tunngle, Evolve, Himachi and ZeroTier. I think Tailscale might be the way to go today.
Believe me, if there were alternatives I’d list them instead/as well. Itch.io is the best alternative afaik, and it has no features at all, just a download link.
If you wanted to be tagged as a steam fanboy just say so 😅
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onlyone feature GOG doesn’t have that Steam has that I can think of is the workshop, but they have all the rest like savegame cloud sync etc.EDIT: @[email protected]’s comment below points out additional missing features.
That’s not true, here are a few more:
That said, I think GOG is fine. But to say it has the same features as Steam is silly, I only mentioned the ones I care about, but there are plenty more.
Thanks for the correction. I play through Heroic and haven’t really needed to use what you listed, probably why it’s a blind spot for me. But it’s also why I prefer GOG, no downsides for me.
Like I said, GOG is fine. I just find value in what Steam offers, but I do occasionally pick up games from GOG.
Another one: steam has some sort of multiplayer integration for devs, so they don’t need to host their own servers and you don’t need to expose ports; instead you can add people using your steam friends. Found this out to my sadness when I bought risk of rain 1 on Gog and the multiplayer was completely gutted compared to my friend who bought on steam.
That’s a great feature indeed. And then there’s their CO-OP feature making couch coop online a thing.
It’s starting to feel like an advertisement for Steam, but they hardly need it 😄
I can relate to the port forwarding troubles. That’s been the biggest hurdle about gaming for decades. Idk if lan-emulating solutions can circumvent. Back in the day there were Tunngle, Evolve, Himachi and ZeroTier. I think Tailscale might be the way to go today.
I’m not a Steam fanboy, I’m just sick of GOG being praised as the saviour of gaming in every video game thread on Lemmy.
Believe me, if there were alternatives I’d list them instead/as well. Itch.io is the best alternative afaik, and it has no features at all, just a download link.