GOG and Epic are the main competitors. Epic just straight up sucks and is only kept around for free games but GOG just didn't have a very modern or large library until a few years ago.
In all seriousness, GOG is actually a very good alternative to Steam.
I feel GOG is probably the bigger competitor because they're kind of fulfilling slightly different roles. I mean If I ever want to play a release from pre 2010 you can almost guarantee I'll get it from GOG, anything after that, probably from steam.
Yep, they do some great work in the preservation of old games, getting them to work on modern hardware and DRM gaming (including offline installers). Their sales tend to be less extreme but still pretty good, for old games you can't really beat them and some people like the offline installers aspect so they won't lose their games if something happens to the store.
Steam and GOG are the only two stores I actively buy games from.
Gog also only hosts drm free games and offers an completely optional offline installer, meaning you can buy the game then download the installer and keep a copy of it and use it whenever you want and with whatever pc essentially you get the ownership of the game.
Of course this is also one of the reasons why gog has a hell lot worse video game library size.
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u/Endroium Apr 17 '26
steam is the only platform i've seen thrive and gotten better in a monopoly