Post newly-discovered games here

[CheeseBoar]

This thread is for newly-discovered DRM-free and client-free games, so put what you find in the comments below. I'll post my own comments to let you know that the wiki page has been updated!

Also, it seems like if you copy and paste the Steam store page URL into your comment, it'll give you a really nice link to the page itself, with a preview of the game, and everything (as you can see in many of the comments below). It's a really nice visual cue, so I recommend doing that whenever you find a DRM-free game.

PLEASE MAKE SURE you specify the operating system on which you tested the game. Not all games are created equally, and some games have versions that are DRM-free on one OS but not on another. Also, remember to do a quick check on the wiki page to see if the game is already listed there.

[Mankybus]

I tried Who's Lila on Linux in a separate prefix and without Steam, played through a couple of parts of the game that's unavailable in the demo so it's safe to say this may be DRM-free. However the DAEMON doesn't seem to be working, so a portion of the game remains unplayable until a workaround is figured out

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1697700/Whos_Lila/

[CheeseBoar]

You guys have been on a roll! I'll hopefully have the wiki page updated this weekend.

[Mankybus]

Doing my best whenever I have the time to run some tests on games I love :)

Another one that seems completely DRM-Free is The Consuming Shadow, followed all the same steps as before (Linux, separate prefix outside of Steam, etc) and the game boots with zero issue and everything seems fully playable. The entire game is in one single .exe.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/403830/The_Consuming_Shadow/

[CheeseBoar]

Okay, we're all updated again!

[Christina]

Been meaning to make my own contributions to this wonderful group:

I have confirmed that both Cruelty and backrooms Break are DRM-Free, I was able to get in contact with devs for both games on their respective discussion forums.

I have tested both Windows 10.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2248330/Backrooms_Break/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3011850/CRUELTY/

[CheeseBoar]

Originally posted by Christina:

I have confirmed that both Cruelty and backrooms Break are DRM-Free, I was able to get in contact with devs for both games on their respective discussion forums.

I love it when developers are willing to talk to us about this stuff. Thanks for the confirmations, I'll get those on the wiki page!

[BLINXERIZER]

Alisa is DRM-FREE out of the box. No tricks needed.

Windows 10

(had accidently posted this in the wrong thread)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1335530/Alisa/

[CheeseBoar]

As expected, The Rise of the Golden Idol (Windows tested) is DRM-free!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2716400/The_Rise_of_the_Golden_Idol/

[CheeseBoar]

Thanks to my wife's testing, I can confirm that Galaxy Burger (Windows) is DRM-free! Local multiplayer works, but not online.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2749770/Galaxy_Burger/

[BLINXERIZER]

Turbo Overkill is DRM-Free out of the box. No special tricks needed. Save file is cross compatible weather playing through the client or not.

Windows 10

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328350/Turbo_Overkill/

[CheeseBoar]

Okay, I'm asking anyone who has a few extra minutes for helping with something: It looks like as of the new anniversary update, Half-Life 2 is no longer DRM-free, as launching it outside of Steam results in an engine error that says "Failed to allocate minimum memory requirement for game (48 MB)." I'm wondering if there's a launch command to bypass this, but I can't figure it out. If no one can bypass this, we may need to remove the Half-Life 2 series from the list, which would really suck.

Testing in Windows, by the way. I should try the Linux ones later.

[BLINXERIZER]

Originally posted by CheeseBoar:

Gravity Circuit can be made DRM-free, and what may be my proudest find, it utilizes a trick that I hadn't yet seen!

This requires 7-Zip. I've tried other archiving programs, like PeaZip in Linux, but 7-Zip was the only one that worked for me (although they probably all work, I just don't have as much experience with other programs). In the 7-Zip File Manager, open GravityCircuit.exe as an archive. When it lists all of the files inside of the .exe, just delete the platform folder; when you exit 7-Zip, run the modified .exe, and the game will start without Steam! You can do this in the Linux version, too, by extracting the contents of GravityCircuit.AppImage and using 7-Zip to delete the platform folder from the GravityCircuit binary, which is located in the bin folder of the extracted contents. Just run that modified binary and the game will start, no need to repackage it as a new .AppImage file. Saving in both versions works perfectly fine, and the save data is recognized whether you're playing DRM-free or via Steam.

(I tested the Windows and Linux versions. I don't have the hardware to test the Mac version, but I can't imagine that it would be any different.)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858710/Gravity_Circuit/

Go back to this for a moment, I dunno if you tested it but after doing the 7zip thing, you can then delete the steam64_api.dll and luasteam.dll files (in the game folder) and it still launches without them. Dunno if there is real benefit from doing so nor if they change anything else about the game but it does seem to launch and play regardless.

[Christina]

Originally posted by CheeseBoar:

Okay, I'm asking anyone who has a few extra minutes for helping with something: It looks like as of the new anniversary update, Half-Life 2 is no longer DRM-free, as launching it outside of Steam results in an engine error that says "Failed to allocate minimum memory requirement for game (48 MB)." I'm wondering if there's a launch command to bypass this, but I can't figure it out. If no one can bypass this, we may need to remove the Half-Life 2 series from the list, which would really suck.

Hope someone can figure this out. I was actually worried about this when the new update came out, new features are nice but I was also worried Valve would screw us over somehow....

[BLINXERIZER]

Well to be fair, original Half-Life (and it's expansions) and Portal 2 (Portal 1 apparently is) aren't DRM-Free. I dunno about L4D 1 & 2.

[CheeseBoar]

Okay, and update to the new Half-Life 2 findings:

If you close the window of the error that pops up and *immediately* launch the game again, there's a chance that it'll bypass the error and the game will work fine. You still have to use the old method of adding launch commands or shortcut options to launch the different games, and the new complete version that combines everything into one title screen doesn't work, but I did get the games running individually again by just loading the game twice in quick succession. It's like it needs to put itself into memory first, and then it can launch find the second time.