I have recently realized that I could claim tons of games from amazon with prime subscription that are claimed in GOG. And it seems GOG has some games available for Linux. There usually are couple of download links for different OSes

lutris

I purchased Outerworlds on Steam and could not get it to load.

I pirated it and run it through WINE and have no problems.

Robes for frogs, apparently.

Yeah, its like a lot of people don't know you can just... move files out of Steam's directory, and 95% of the time, game still runs, just, not through Steam.

What even is a Steam rip, anyway?

A voice of reason... about videogame platforms!?
It's nice to see you here, people are ridiculous about this stuff.

Imagine being sane, neither an steam only, pc master race enthusiast, nor a FOSS Linux 100% privacy and anonymity zealot.

Steam is as much de facto a seller of DRM-free games as a electric appliances store is a seller of quake games machines: some people with the right skills might get quake to work in some of the smart fridges or smart TVs they sell, but they're definitelly not made for it, definitelly not sold as supporting that feature and definitelly no support whatsoever is provided for that feature.

When you're making a purchasing decision on their store, Steam doesn't tell you upfront if the game has or not their DRM hence you cannot make an informed decision on that factor: Steam most definitelly do not want potential customers to select games on the basis or absence of DRM.

Also the install process of a game in a new machine with Steam is always via their store which can arbitrarily refuse you access to the games you supposedly bought (only according to Steam, you only "licensed" them) whilst with GOG once you downloaded the offline installer it's de facto yours (even in legal environments where such sales are not treated the same as sales of games in physical media - which are treated as owned). The copying over of a Steam game is a hack, which even without the Steam phone-home DRM might not work, for example, if the game won't run properly when certain registry keys created during install are not present.

I lament it, but I understand it. Last year's reports showed that GoG was barely staying afloat. Their rival shows Linux is only 3% of current market, so GoG probably doesn't want to spread themselves any thinner until they get some surplus cash to test the waters with.

Thank goodness for Heroic launcher.

Zoom is good about promoting Linux and has DRM free games. https://www.zoom-platform.com/

Nor public movements to do with it either. They're certainly an interesting company...

I'm on Linux as well and I just use heroic for my gog library

It's not official, but I'm liking Heroic Launcher. Really, GoG should just support them(or Lutris) and link to them directly for linux support.

I use both Steam with Proton (for Steam store games) and Lutris with Wine (for the rest, mainly GOG) and the rate of one-click-setup success in both is about the same (maybe slightly better for Steam), with Lutris with Wine being more easy to tweak for solving the problems for those games that won't just directly run, plus Lutris lets me do way much more configuration customizing, so for example all my games under Lutris run sandboxed with networking disabled by default.

Granted, I am a Techie so I can more easilly figure out how to tweak all those configuration options and how to track launch problems in the logs.

Maybe Steam with Proton has a slight advantage for non-Techies (or Techies who just don't have the patience to even try to tweak things when a game won't run and just give up on it and move on), but it's not really that amazing - I get the impression it's more of a problem of misinformation (people hear about Steam and Proton and how it's all great, so try it and stick with it, but they don't hear enough about Lutris and the Heroic Launcher so end up not even trying either of them): it looks a lot to me like an instance of the usual "open source vs commercial software" marketing problem.

Mind you, without Lutris (or, as others mentioned, the Heroic Launcher which is similar) with all the nice install scripts properly configuring Wine for the specific game being installed, trying to game on Linux by directly configuring Wine (+DXVK) would be as an experience bad as gaming on Linux was a decade ago.

PS: That said, using the GOG client on Linux is a hassle and best avoided. both Lutris and Heroic integrate with GOG, listing the games in your account and seamlessly downloading the installers when you chose to install a game.

Imagine what happens if Steam Valve just stops developing Proton.

Oh, haha, well, then uh, in not too much time, linux gaming for all future games beyond that point goes back to being roughly where WINE was a decade ago, future games that work on linux goes back to being a really weird, esoteric, niche thing.

People really don't understand that Proton basically is the most important project in the history of linux, of free software, in terms of getting an actually sizeable chunk of people to use linux regularly, to abandon corporate OSs.

Akcthually you can publish drm free games on steam, it's just that you cannot download an installer. But for some games you can just copy the folder and it's going to work even without steam. Also GOG enforces drm free games

Unofficial:

Minigalaxy and Heroic are both clients which support GoG

And when GoG does regional pricing.

So much more expensive if you don't live in the US/Western Europe.

i mean you dont really need the launcher

I use Lutris with GOG works great

Heroic with GOG works great on Linux. Why wait?

Blizz's battle.net or whatever it's called nowadays.

battle net, it’s blizzard’s launcher

Their acronym is "Good Old Games", so I suspect it's a play on that.

Apparently, there is a line of succession already planned.

I mean, GOG is owned by Amazon soooo...

Gaming cosplayers, of course.

I love the idea of GoG, but it’s also the only client that forces me to pay in local currency with local taxes when I travel too. Have to use a VPN and change my time zone in settings to get it to let me pay in USD. Steam does it based on billing address and card.