Posted June 12, 2021
borisburke: Does Humble provide client-free, DRM-free, direct portable downloads? Or is it steam keys and such?
Sometimes installers yes, at least years ago. Not sure how often nowadays, at some point they started increasingly selling Steam keys, but in the past you got both. However:
- Their offline installers might be lagging even more behind than those of GOG. I guess they felt "you can play the Steam version if you want an up-to-date game", ie. there is/was less incentive to try to keep the offline version up to date.
- The naming and format of the offline installers was all over the place, as HB just provided whatever they got from the developers, who chose the installer format and the naming of the installer freely.
I guess that is not necessarily THAT important, but it just means different HB games install to different places, the naming of the game installers can be very obscure (I e.g. recall some game being called something like "setup_game_SB_22767632.exe"; good luck trying to remember what game that is, without running the installer), and some games didn't even have an installer, but just came with a zip file that you decompress yourself.
I guess those "zip-file" games are at least fully portable, with the games with proper installers, it may vary.