One way for gamers to help developers in developing games is to buy the original product directly, either physically or online. In the past, when you wanted to buy a game, you had to physically or come to a game store, but nowadays game stores are starting to lose out to digital game stores because they are practical, making it easier for consumers to buy original games.
Now it’s a lot developer which sells its games online at digital game stores. If you search on the internet, you will definitely find game developers, both new and well-known. Below the author will provide recommendations for various websites that sell trusted digital games.
Welcome to VazGaming, and here are 13 cheap original digital game stores for steam alternatives to buy trusted original games, not pirated ones.
1. Steam
When it comes to the most popular game distributor, Steam is probably the most widely known and popular among gamers today. Steam is a digital service created by Valve and has been around for a long time.
Regarding games, Steam has thousands of games with various genres and friendly prices, but back to the discussion for game stores other than Steam, there are the following below, the Steam alternative digital game store.
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2. Origin
Origin is an online store service made by Electronic Arts (EA). The services and features provided are almost similar to Steam, the difference is that EA acts as a developer and publisher of the games it makes and then sells on Origin.
Origin is still new but its development is quite fast. An interesting feature of Origin is that you can return a game that you have purchased if it turns out that the game is not strong on a PC or is not satisfied like buying a game at a regular store, of course with various terms and conditions owned by EA.
3. GOG.com
GOG.com or formerly called Good Old Games is famous because some of the games sold are classic games. Even though they now accept modern games, they still retain their established identity as classic game sellers.
GOG.com sells games DRM-free or Digital Rights Management-free which means you can use any installer that already exists on your computer. This website is perfect for those of you who want to reminisce about classic games.
4. Microsoft Windows Store
Microsoft Windows as the owner of the OS most widely used by people around the world created their own game store called the Windows Store, although currently there are not too many games but in the future there will definitely be more and more. The advantage of this Windows Store is that some game titles can be integrated with the Xbox console.
5. Battle.net
At the beginning of the founding of Battle.net in 1996 they only served one game, namely Diablo. Until now, Battle.net has had many exciting game titles, and home to popular games such as Overwatch, Hearthstone, Starcraft, World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm and Diablo 3, on average, Battle.net only sells games developed by Blizzard. just.
But there are other things besides that, namely the Activision Destiny 2 game which is sold exclusively on Battle.net. Although the games offered are not as many as games on Steam, Origin or others, maybe you can have a look at them first, maybe someone will be interested.
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6. Humble Bundle
Almost the same as Desura, but Desura is now closed, some of the games that Humble Bundle sells are indie games that are not well known. You can buy games at low prices on the website as well as donate because 10% of the sales proceeds will be donated to charities. In addition you will also get a Steam Key and DRM-free of the games you bought.
7. Amazon
For this one you may be familiar, Amazon is the largest online store in the world that also sells various digital games you know. Amazon as famous as online shop largest in the world, but Amazon is also trying its luck in the game production business
One way to do this is to offer attractive discounts. After you buy a game on Amazon, you will be given a code that you can claim on Steam, Origin, or other DRM or you can also download some of the games directly from Amazon’s servers. It’s just that the game is sold specifically for addresses in the United States, but hopefully in the future it will be available in Indonesia.
8. Uplay
Uplay is made by Ubisoft and is basically similar to Origin, a combined game store and social/DRM platform. But different from Origin, Ubisoft Uplay also offers the main release of the game to other stores, for example Steam, but even if you buy Ubisoft games on Steam, you will also have to download Uplay later.
Although it does have a unique way, it never hurts to check out the various games on offer. Sometimes games that are on the official Uplay have special discounts that are not available in other game stores.
You can see various games on Uplay via the link above or directly download the Uplay app via this link.
9. Greenman Gaming
Next, there is Green Man Gaming, which is famous for selling various games in the form of digital keys which can then be claimed on Steam, Origin, Battle.net, Uplay and other DRM, of course at prices that are sometimes cheaper than the original store.
Plus Green man Gaming offers retail prices that are standard for most game titles. Especially if you become a VIP customer here, you will get a lot of discounts from EXP loyalty.
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10. Itch.io
If you are a lover of indie genre games, then Itch.io is the place for you to visit. On Itch.io you can not only find many indie game titles from various platforms such as PC Windows, Mac OS and Linux but also you can get tools, assets, physical games and many others.
11. GamersGate
The main service offered by GamersGate is to offer game keys and games based on DRM-free. So later you will get digital credit in the form of “Blue Coin” coins for every purchase.
So that you get more coins, you can participate in the GamersGate community. For example, repeating various games or helping answer questions. The coins you get can be exchanged to buy the game you want.
12. Direct2Drive
The Direct2Drive service is also the same as other digital game stores, after selecting the desired game and then making a payment, you can quickly download the game and play. The games offered by Direct2Drive are always new and officially DRM-activated on Steam, Uplay, Origin and others that support D2D.
The cool thing is, Direct2Drive often gives discounts on various games, ranging from one game to a large number at once but cheap. Interested? Maybe you can take a look at it first.
13. Newegg
Newegg is an online retailer with a variety of goods it sells, much like Amazon. In one of the categories that you can click via the link above they also sell various games from various platforms at competitive prices, sometimes they do big discounts.
Those are the 13 original cheap digital game stores for Steam alternatives, so if all you know is that Steam is wrong, it turns out that there are many, right. And hopefully the recommendations of the various shops above are useful, all of these stores can be trusted.
Besides developer and the above website there are many other websites that provide online services for game distribution. For PC games, for example, Sony. While mobile games you know Google Play and the App Store. How, about the game store above is interesting, isn’t it?
