Anyone use Desura?
The aim of Desura is to provide gamers with a dependable interface which delivers the content they want to play in the quickest cross-pc way possible. At its heart is a digital distribution application which can serve (and patch) games, mods and addons to its members.
What makes us different?
- Developer driven
- Community run
- User made content
(basically an alternative to Steam…)
Nope, hadn’t heard about it until now. Sounds like a Steam for Indie games mostly?
I like the concept. Seems it might take some time for it to really lift off of the ground. The game list leaves some to be desired. Played any of them yet? Any suggestions?
Maybe Avictus can get a game published on there.
Hmm thought I replied to this already…
I haven’t tried Desura at all yet – was hoping someone here had more experience with it (hopefully with an opinion) before doing so.
I’ve heard of Desura. It’s a great concept. It’s been out for awhile now, but hasn’t generated too much “steam.” (Ha!)
It’s not as important these days as it was when it launched. Steam has become very indie-friendly from what I can tell. A big feature of Desura was that it supported mod management from within the client, which was a cool idea. However, I believe Steam is rolling that out now. I know Skyrim is going to have all of its mod management done from within Steam, but I’m not sure if Valve is offering that feature to all Steamworks licensees.
The publishing system for Desura is much more open. I don’t think they reject titles based on quality and probably only check for inappropriate content. My feeling about the current state of Desura is that most of its exclusive titles are probably games that were rejected by Valve for Steam publishing, or titles that weren’t submitted to Steam for ideological reasons. Desura doesn’t use any sort of DRM, but individual games can still ship with their own DRM if they want.
Desura also supports Linux, which is important for some people (but that doesn’t mean that all of the games on it also support Linux.)
Looking over their site (I haven’t looked into it in awhile) I notice they’ve turned the Minecraft publishing model into a feature of Desura. They call it Alphafunding.
Thanks, that answers most if not all of my questions. Guess I’ll stick with steam for now.
I want to deliberately tell game publishers with my wallet that I will only purchase their software via Steam. I do not want to have Desura, Steam, Origin, Impulse etc etc all installed and competing. While competition is a good thing for a free market as a whole, I strongly dislike companies thinking they should all have their own game catalog software that gets to run on my PC. One or two good ones (and steam is damn good at this point) is plenty. Unless you have a game changing (pun unintended) new feature(s), you should not have your own catalog software at this point. That’s my $0.02.