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For sure. Unfortunately PC gamers wille at that shit right up without a moment's hesitation. Just look at how popular steam is.
You do know that something like 75-99% of games on steam don't have any drm, right? You can play most games right from the exe.
None ive ever purchased have been drm/launcher free. Even binding of Isaac and terraria need that bloated garbage excuse for a launcher open to run.
you probably don't even know what, or where the executable is located for any of those games
Running the app directly through steam/ the freedesktop launcher steam makes should work without internet access
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE43
no INTERNET needed, only wifi or hardwired local network