SOMA on GOG?

**Sakonosolo** · 08-29-2015, 04:12 AM

I'm still debating if I should get it on GOG or Steam. Quite a few games on Steam allow playing without Steam running and I'm wondering if that will be the case with SOMA. I mean I'm not one of those drm=evil people and I like Steam in general and don't know which I want to order on. If anyone from Frictional sees this, can you play SOMA without Steam running?

**7heDubz** · 08-29-2015, 07:25 AM

I would assume not, you can always run in offline mode,

~~Googolplex~~ · 08-29-2015, 12:22 PM

Jens said they won't use Steam DRM, which means Steam must not be running.

**Traggey** · 08-29-2015, 01:39 PM

Steam is not required to play the game, merely to download it.

**Bucic** · 09-20-2015, 12:23 PM

I personally like to support smaller players whenever I can. In case of games it's difficult because I buy two games per year at most. So this seems like a perfect occasion to support GOG! Besides, you can always add GOG games to Steam library if you want and if you don't pay attention to "achievments" and other gimmicks.

**syclick** · 09-20-2015, 07:33 PM

Seems the Humble Bundle Store simply offers a Steam key.

~~A.M Team~~ · 09-20-2015, 07:46 PM

(09-20-2015, 12:23 PM)Bucic Wrote: I personally like to support smaller players whenever I can. In case of games it's difficult because I buy two games per year at most. So this seems like a perfect occasion to support GOG! Besides, you can always add GOG games to Steam library if you want and if you don't pay attention to "achievments" and other gimmicks.

They only pop up during transitions or when they don't break immersion, but you can hide them.

**Kein** · 09-21-2015, 12:29 AM

I'm 100% sure GoG version will be superior to any other version.

**Bucic** · 09-22-2015, 11:39 AM

(09-20-2015, 07:46 PM)TheDoctorPoo Wrote:
(09-20-2015, 12:23 PM)Bucic Wrote: I personally like to support smaller players whenever I can. In case of games it's difficult because I buy two games per year at most. So this seems like a perfect occasion to support GOG! Besides, you can always add GOG games to Steam library if you want and if you don't pay attention to "achievments" and other gimmicks.

They only pop up during transitions or when they don't break immersion, but you can hide them.

You misunderstood my post.

**nebej** · 09-22-2015, 12:36 PM

The steam version of the game ships with two exes.
1) Soma.exe (Steam cloud and workshop support but no DRM)
2) Soma_NoSteam.exe (free from all the steam stuff)