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Sometimes I think I made the right decision to just get a huge harddrive and download all my favorite entertainment in drm free format. Movies, music, games, books. I saw this coming a mile away a decade ago. The only thing that will really hurt me is if/when Steam inevitably goes full corporate cucks and starts going hard on the DRM locking down my library.
Can you save your steam games on a hard drive? I'm really interested in this possibility,I would also like to preserve some of my games on MY hardware
Yes you can install steam games on an external drive or seperate partition, but it still requires you to sign into account to access them, and if you try to say play the same game on two different computers at the same time with the same account steam will force you to close one of them. I recommend buying games off GOG when you can since they are truly DRM free you may not get cloud saves or workshop content but you aren't being bossed around by steam either.
You don't really have to be connected to steam because they actually allow DRM-free games iirc. Obviously it depends on the game.
There are many DRM free games on steam. Not quite as good as gog of course.
GOG actually changed that policy to some degree. I don't think it's a guarantee that all GOG games are DRM free.