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steam vs gog, which game store to buy from?
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I'm going to go against the grain here and say I primarily buy from Steam. A lot of indie games don't require Steam to run to play them and for the games that do, it's not hard to bypass. I just like having everything in one spot where I can redownload to other devices when needed, and I can have cloud saves for bouncing between my PC and Steam Deck. Also, if I nuke my OS for a 3rd time this month (changing distros), I won't have to start over on the games I'm playing.
Heroic Games Launcher works on Steam Deck, and syncs your achievements and cloud saves to GoG. The biggest downside to GoG is it requires you to use the Windows/Proton versions of your games for cloud sync to work.