I don't want to talk the list down - your efforts are appreciated - but the original pastebin was outdated and/or flawed, games like Half-Life or FTL are (now?) DRM-free. It's tricky with false positives if you use a blacklist.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I also think some games made it on their because someone(s) might have confused the wiki and the pastebin.

Regardless, I think that if we keep the wiki up-to-date, it should be fine. I have to say, though, if there's a game I really like and I see it on the pastebin, I try again anyways because who knows ^^

The way I do it, is that I just check whatever games I currently have installed.

But later, I am going to check some games which take minutes to install, so it's easier/faster for me. Both ways are a good way to do it, imo.

I tried Half Minute Hero a while back, and unless something has changed, it does require Steam to be running, unfortunately; I'll try it again later, though.

I got the game from that Groupees bundle an hour ago. And...yep, requires Steam to be running in the background in order to play. Oh well, so much for that. =/

I didn't see it in the thread (both search and other stuff) and was wondering that, but thanks anyways. :)

Does anyone know if the great game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is DRM free.
And I can´t find these Games on the List: Alien Breed, Ion Assult, Lumines
and please tell me is Toy Soldiers DRM free!!! Thanks.

If someone could, please

Add Gun Metal, can run w/o steam as per the post linked.

Add Valdis Story, can run w/o steam as per the post linked. Note: delete the steam_api.dll, and it should run.

I'll start editing the wiki myself once I figure out how to not ruin it when I do it, lol.

Wiki Link

For anyone who has it/them, would you be willing to test Lost Planet, either the original or the Colonies Edition? The demo runs without Steam, but I don't want to just assume that means the full version will, as well.

For anyone who has Dragon Commander on Steam...
...is it DRM-FREE there?

Or when you have Steam client-program closed, does running the game's launcher or its main EXE file unfortunately force the Steam client-program to boot-up?
I just tried this - since I have it on Steam.

Running the Enslaved.EXE file from the actual game-folder while Steam client-program is closed DOES NOT boot-up the Steam client-program. :D

Enslaved.EXE is in this location:
{wherever you stored it within the Steam folder}\Enslaved\Binaries\Win32\Enslaved.EXE.

Game's running just fine. :D

I should note:
I have NOT tried copying all 14.3 GB of this file to another folder to see if it boots-up, though.
Maybe someone else wants to try this, since I don't wanna copy 14GB somewhere else?
I only have ran the EXE from the Steam-folder directly, while Steam program is closed - and that indeed works. :D

It is perfectly possible to implement DRM without having any kind of client running.

But, I don't know really what DRM that Enslaved is using, if it even is.
There's no sort of Securom, Tages, or any of that madness - from what I see.
You just boot the game from the game-folder and its Enslaved.EXE - and it goes, even w/ Steam closed.

I was trying to figure out where saves went - found 'em, thanks to this post:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/245280/discussions/0/666824800739729424/

For me, it's in the last location the guy listed - since I was playing w/ Steam program closed (i.e. no Steam-Cloud saves).

Yes. Imperial Edition.

Awesome.
Thanks. :D

I will have to make sure that I get it from Steam then, when I get around to buying it.
I love when Steam basically gives you both worlds of DRM-FREE benefits + Steam benefits.

I wish this game had a demo, though.

I was waiting for a sale on GOG, but I just settled on the current sale instead. I feel dirty.

Other Larian games are also on the wiki, fyi:

http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

Thanks for checking Enslaved, I'll add it in when I get the chance.