Epic Games that work without the launcher

[nomdeplume]

Indeed. There's a thread on the GOG forum maintaining an Epic Games That Work Without The Epic Launcher spreadsheet. Some good ones on there (Batman Arkham Trilogy, Ark: Survival, Subnautica, Civ VI, etc) that are all still DRM'd on Steam.

Encountered this post while doing a search on "Subnautica."

That spreadsheet engaged my imagination enough to bump this in order to find out if anyone is aware the current state of games listed there (and usefulness of -EpicPortal command line switch). Obviously I would like to have ability to take my purchased games offline when desired.

[Thread was a front page editorial unlikely to see replies because it doesn't show in Recent Discussions.]

 

[dgianstefani]

GitHub - derrod/legendary: Legendary - A free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher

Legendary - A free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher - derrod/legendary

github.com

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[64K]

Encountered this post while doing a search on "Subnautica."

That spreadsheet engaged my imagination enough to bump this in order to find out if anyone is aware the current state of games listed there (and usefulness of -EpicPortal command line switch). Obviously I would like to have ability to take my purchased games offline when desired.

[Thread was a front page editorial unlikely to see replies because it doesn't show in Recent Discussions.]

Almost every game that I have on EGS doesn't require the launcher at all. I just go into the individual game folder and double click on the exe
An additional plus to this is that you don't even have to be online this way.

 

[BSim500]

Encountered this post while doing a search on "Subnautica."

That spreadsheet engaged my imagination enough to bump this in order to find out if anyone is aware the current state of games listed there (and usefulness of -EpicPortal command line switch). Obviously I would like to have ability to take my purchased games offline when desired.

Unfortunately GOG locked both it and the Steam version threads due to 'advertising' competing stores. The maintainer of the list has said in chat that the DRM-Free Epic Games list was moved to PCGW instead where it's now better maintained by multiple editors:-
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store

... whilst the Steam version is below:-
https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

 

[nomdeplume]

Unfortunately GOG locked both it and the Steam version threads due to 'advertising' competing stores. The maintainer of the list has said in chat that the DRM-Free Epic Games list was moved to PCGW instead where it's now better maintained by multiple editors:-
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store

... whilst the Steam version is below:-
https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

Yes, it was your post I quoted (and deleted) before pasting it here. Thank you for the equally informative reply.

Will dig into the command line stuff and everything else on my own time.

Almost every game that I have on EGS doesn't require the launcher at all. I just go into the individual game folder and double click on the exe
An additional plus to this is that you don't even have to be online this way.

I have very few games and none that are tied to online multiplayer. Of those the only one I tried offline was Snow Runner (which is listed as playable offline).

 

[BSim500]

Almost every game that I have on EGS doesn't require the launcher at all. I just go into the individual game folder and double click on the exe
An additional plus to this is that you don't even have to be online this way.

It's a lot more mixed than that. Literally every Ubisoft game on there is double-DRM'd (even Monopoly Plus has Denuvo), whilst for some games like Alien Isolation all the DLC doesn't work if the launcher isn't running. Borderlands 3 has had Denuvo removed yet the "base" client DRM is still present on Steam & Epic. As mentioned above, PCGW is now the "definitive" list for this stuff and has replaced the old spreadsheet.

 

[64K]

I have very few games and none that are tied to online multiplayer. Of those the only one I tried offline was Snow Runner (which is listed as playable offline).

Try it by clicking on exe in your other game folders. A lot of them don't require an internet connection.

Another thing is that there are games on Steam that don't use the Steam DRM and will launch even if Internet is down. Someone always tells me that you have to go to offline mode first but that's not true in some cases. Mostly older games.

 

[nomdeplume]

Will try this on everything I have installed tonight. Also probably install Subnautica which started this all.