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While true for some games that require their online services. There’s nothing keeping you from downloading a game and backing up the install files on your own media to play later… A lot of games will run without steam open if you just run the executable…
Sounds to me like you want an iPhone… There’s nothing wrong with that as long as you know what you’re getting into which it sounds like you do…
A project like GOS will never have that level of polish and it seems like that’s what you’re looking for…