Blizzard App, GOG Galaxy, and the Epic Games Launcher just to name a few more.
Not sure if "Platform" is the word your looking for, But I get what your saying.
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battle.net
bethesda
arena.net
GOG
and of course... torrents xD
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Gaijin/Yuplay
Robotcache
& I guess you can count all kind of Free to Play/MMO etc...
yes too many...
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I think what you are looking for is game clients. If you do a search for PC game clients, you will get a bunch of results for websites that rank the best or most popular Steam alternatives.
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I take it that you mean stores where you can buy & download games (that don't just offer keys for other services)?
Apart from the ones mentioned earlier we also have places like:
Gamer's Gate
Big Fish
Humble Bundle (although it's mostly a key shop, they do have some games you can download from there)
itch.io
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If you mean available game launching clients, then:
Some of these and a few others sell games with custom or DRM-free installers, or ZIP files (GameHouse, Humble Bundle, WinGameStore, GamesPlanet, GamersGate, Amazon Digital Store, and so on), but they are not exactly desktop clients.
If you mean digital stores for PC games, then too many.
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I'd add GameSessions. It's not a full client but it's a download platform.
Is OnePlay dead? They bought Desura at some point, but I can't access the site now. They had a client.
Direct2Drive - I went there just now, and they offered me a free gaming subscription through a client, but damned if I can't find that client after that dialogue. The games I have there are downloadable as simple zip files. (Edit: Ah, the client can be downloaded by clicking "Your subscription is now activated" in the mail they sent. Totally intuitive.)
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Interestingly, Gamefly has my original D2D purchase history, while D2D has my original D2D games (and no purchase history).
As for OnePlay, when did that happen? Was there any official word or did it just disappear one day?
Edit: Oh, and the Playfire client from Green Man Gaming is still functional. GMG is no longer selling games for download, but the old games are still there.
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This is by far the best reply so far. Thumbs up, talgaby.
As a very minor addendum, there's also this thing called WildTangent Games. I don't know about nowadays, but the launcher used to come pre-installed in pre-built PCs, like from HP.
I know about this because a relative of mine started using it, and continues to today. It's awful. The client experiences crashes, but more often randomly pulls the player out of the game they are playing, minimizing it to the system tray. You also don't buy things with money directly: you buy "coins" which you can use to either purchase a game outright, or "rent" a game for a predetermined amount of time--y'know, because they can't make money on free demos. They used to encourage customers to pay a monthly plan for acquiring coins. Then, not only are many of the games crap, I think most of them are available on Steam, anyway.
The whole situation come off as super shady to me; in fact, I just tried to access their website, and I got one of those DATA CONSENT pop-ups.
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facebook gameroom , garena , gamejolt desktop app , itchio desktop app and kongregate kartridge...
minecraft and world of tanks use their own standalone client/launcher...
subscription-based service like utomik , playonjump and oneplay...
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tencent WeGame is coming to global pc gaming market too
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And they all want to launch when Windows starts. Hope you like long boot times.
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Yeah, I knew about this, but if you want access to your full library across multiple clients you'll have to open them all.
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Apart from Steam, of course
Origin, Uplay... emmm
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