Many older games are on GoG too, but as a whole, greed and all these damn launchers are the problem. Dev stops shipping or distributing copies - off to myabandonware as all software should instead of re-re-re-re-milking people and stuffing them into some ecosystem.
Most older games on steam are $5 or less, and many of them are still very fun to play, also more recent games go on sale on steam all the time
Many older games are on GoG too, but as a whole, greed and all these damn launchers are the problem. Dev stops shipping or distributing copies - off to myabandonware as all software should instead of re-re-re-re-milking people and stuffing them into some ecosystem.