List of Steam DRM free games

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Since we have a lot of tards on this forum fighting the Steam for fake or minor reasons, while their main argument is something along "If Steam dies in 100 years, my grandchildren will not be able to play my games, unlike physical copies (which have limited lifetime, but let's ignore it, because Valve is just evil!)" I thought of making this thread, so people would stop retarding and screaming all around that Gabe makes Steam always-on forced DRM. Well, he does not, he does it to his games only and the rest is up to other publishers (and devs?) releasing their games. For example Paradox never includes any DRM in his games even on steam. You can just download steam, buy any Paradox title, install, cut-paste folder from steam directory, uninstall steam and enjoy the game without DRM.

The list includes titles bought and tested by me and copy pasted from this thread: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_steam/ (thanks Bazilisek and other GOG members!). It's by no means complete or even near completion.

All Dosbox games
1000 Amps
All Zombies Must Die* (run ShippingPC-Bzb2Game.exe)
Alpha Protocol (run Binaries\APGame.exe, NOT APLauncher.exe)
Analogue: A Hate Story
A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda (error message can be dismissed)
Atom Zombie Smasher (run atom_net.exe, NOT atomzombiesmasher.exe)
Aztaka
Basement Collection, The (doesn't show unlocked content)
Bastion
BEEP
Ben There, Dan That
Binding of Isaac, The
Blackwell series (achievements disabled)
Blocks That Matter
Bob Came in Pieces
Botanicula
Breath of Death VII
Broken Sword 2
Cogs
Containment
Cortex Command
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Crusader Kings
Crusader Kings 2 (+ all bought DLCs if you also copy the folder in My Documents)
Cthulhu Saves the World
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!
Dangerous Waters
Data Jammers: FastForward
DCS: Black Shark
DEFCON
Divine Divinity
Dream Machine, The
Dungeon Siege 2 (but not 1 or 3)
Dungeons of Dredmor (mods installed through the Steam Workshop aren't available)
Elven Legacy
Ether Vapor Remaster
Eufloria
Europa Universalis III Chronicles
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Faerie Solitaire
Fallout 3
Far Cry 2
Frozen Synapse
FTL:Faster Than Light
Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
Gemini Rue
Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto 2
Gratuitous Space Battles
Hacker Evolution Duality
Home
Jamestown
Legend of Grimrock (will launch Steam if it can be found, but runs if it cannot)
Legendary
Lightfish*
Lone Survivor
Lucid
Lunar Flight
Machinarium
Majesty HD (but not Majesty Gold)
Majesty 2 Collection
Mini Ninjas
Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, The
Mount and Blade: Warband (Steam CD key can be used to redeem a DRM-free copy)
Multiwinia
Nimbus
Noitu Love 2: Devolution
NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
Painkiller Redemption
Path, The
PixelJunk Eden* (error message can be dismissed)
Polynomial, The
Psychonauts
Puzzle Quest 2
Rayman Origins
Really Big Sky
Rock of Ages*
Saira
Samorost 2
Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Classics
Serious Sam 2 (but neither of the Serious Sam HD Encounters)
Sniper Elite
Snuggle Truck
SOL: Exodus
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 – Episode I (but not Episode II)
Space Rangers
Super Crate Box
Super Laser Racer
Super Meat Boy
Tales of Monkey Island – Episode 1 (but not the remaining episodes)
Thief: The Dark Project
Thief II: The Metal Age
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
TRAUMA
Trapped Dead
Unstoppable Gorg
Vertex Dispenser
Victoria II
Virus Named TOM, A
VVVVVV
Windosill
Wizorb
Worms Pinball
(Supposedly all other Paradox titles not included on the list, like Hearts of Iron III or Sengoku)

So if a publisher is to force DRM on a game, I'd rather have it as Steam instead of Securom crap or anything similar which often tends to fail and tell that your copy is pirated or is incompatible with other installed software and does not allow to run the game (I had both cases too many times). Still, not all Steam games are DRM free, but then you can just download crack.exe.

In during

STEAM IS DRM

/thread


Nice list though, Ponydwarf.

SecuRom is fairly mild though, I'd say, TAGES and STARFORCE were the worst shit until the new always-online idiocy.

Err... but the point of this thread is that it's not for all games. For many of them, it's only required to download and that's all.

If Steam or Valve itself ever goes away (which is looking more and more likely, since they're fucking around with Linux consoles and indie shit instead of releasing brilliant, original games like they should), the great and noble god-emperor Gaben The Gargantuan will most likely provide some workaround for the DRM, they've always said so. He has so far proven himself an honest BRO so there's no reason not to take his word. Personally, I'm more worried about the stuff that has extra, super-shitty DRM stuffed in over and above Steam, like Fallout 3 and the Batman games with GFWL, or the Ubisoft games. Those servers are far more likely to leave us stranded than Steam ever would.

All ArmAs* are DRM free on Steam
That means
ArmA Cold War Assault
ArmA 1 / Gold
ArmA 2 / OA

*DLCs have a retarded Stardock DRM however

Dont forget that the man is not immortal and will most likely die before Steam does. Who knows who would succeed him in that case.

Granted I dont think Steam is any worse than the classic cds/dvds.

ITZ stealing my memory!