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I mean, this is one way to archive. The way I did it was just to use the steam client and shift-right click install everything I wanted to backup on a compressed drive. The games aren't actually installed until you run them for the first time.

Gog, on the other hand, doesn't let you do this, so I resorted to lgogdownloader.

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As I mentioned in my post, I wanted to archive directly to my server and due to the (rather unique) circumstances I wasn't able to run Steam on the server.

You can download the independent installers for all games on GOG either through their website directly, or through the GOG launcher. I regularly do this to have the installers for my games on my local NAS.

Yeah. I use lgogdownloader to do this in bulk. It's very configurable from the command line. It can be run in Windows with WSL.

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