Steam would never allow their Flagship IPs on GOG.

Picture this: The original Half-Life is twenty-five years old and cannot be played without an internet connection.

This only leads to piracy and as a result I think GOG will benefit greatly from what they are currently doing.

Even if they NEVER get a license for valve games.

If GOG ever gets the Half Life or Portal series, GOG's site might crash from all the traffic.

I didnt have to zip anything myself, all the HL and Portal games are playable for me without the steam client.
Heck 90% of my steam games work fine without their client, so when ppl on steam its not posible to play their steam games without the client thats just not true for the most part and is a myth by now.

Yes online games are not the same and require the Goldberg simulator, and yes ofc there is a few games here and there that has steam drm in it, such as steams version of Deux Ex.

I deleted my ~20 old account and in the process had to manually dl and transfer all my ~600 games to be able to keep and play them.
I didnt check go through all if they work yet, but so far 90% of the ones I did (at least 200 ive gone through by now) works fine.

So I was surprised the Portal and HL game works without the client tbh since its Valves own games, but they do :)
(might be a few HL mod games and such that dont, I never played all of those yet, but offical ones do)

You don’t need to zip them up, I just do to have a single compressed file for archival versus a folder full of game files. And yes, there are many games that can work without Steam, even a PCGamingWiki page dedicated to it, but GOG is always a thousand times more preferred.

Oh, well, that just simply invalidates my entire argument. If only I knew I had to go through hoops-how convenient.

Downloading steam is not DRM free.

you do realize that offline mode can and will break over time which means you can't play anything without it at some point

You do realize that offline mode on steam is not a drm free option that truly means you own the games you rented there and that you can't really backup these games in a way that you can play it on other pcs as many Steam games apply hardware level DRM and this all mean that offline mode is just a glorified "We're tricking you into thinking you can play your games offline!" statement, right? :P

if they do that then there will be chaos.
problem is because internet can be disrupted and there are still places without internet.

even fan made goldsrc and source games like half life echoes snowdrop escape swelter and entropy zero 1 and 2 should not be on gog because there is no workshop support on gog

Lordy Lordy, what have we here .... a Steam Delusionist ... fun for all.

@OP - To answer your question .... YES, every game should be available at GOG, DRM-Free.

However, due to folk like yourself, who just have no idea, many never will be.

But in reality, Valve is Steam or Steam is Valve ... choose your poison. So NO, realistically nothing made by them is likely to ever turn up on GOG.

While GOG is not a true competitor to Steam, most game sales being made at Steam, GOG is and will only ever remain small fry. So no game developer survives off of game sales made at GOG.

Now who left that door open, so that Steam weirdos could walk in off the street, and harass us with utter nonsense?