What do you like about steam compared to gog vice versa?
What do you appreciate on both sides and what not so much?

Both stores are great and its fine to like them equally

1. You don't need to wait a decade and a half before a game is released there.

2. You can filter out games based on various criteria like content (e.g. adult-only sexual content, violence or gore), tags, or specific titles.

3. You can completely remove items from your account, not just hide them.

At this point I really have to wonder if it's just intentional trolling.

Also, isn't this against the rules here? Not that I like the rule about not talking about other stores, but it's there. I think. I'm honestly not sure how it works.

Steam actually has a variety of board games to purchase.

You are allowed ti talk about other stores.

I don't, but uh, they do organize things quite a bit better over there. Nice tabs where there are no surprises. The community hub looks basically the same every game click on, and their guides are quite useful. Plus many of the reviews are absolute triumphs of actual writing, though many of them fall into a morass of irrelevancy.

Oh, and Steam's command line utility is pretty nice, though niche; mainly made for setting up headless servers, it can still pull down updates and other things. Very nice if you want to lower your overhead.

Baffling though, even if you can pull downloads like workshop mods, some games have them explicitly blocked.

In short, it'd be nice if GOG had GOGcmd.

They have a large library and an established community with discussions and guides.

Otherwise GOG is better. That's a bad thing, as far as I'm concerned. The other day I was going to uninstall a free game, by going to Manage > Uninstall and in the same menu I saw "remove from account". I just spent over a hundred hours unlocking achievements, the last thing I'd wanna do is accidentally delete it. Or get hacked and have my games deleted. Thankfully that stupid option is not there for paid games, but I will still have to be extra careful when uninstalling games.

I don`t like Steam, sorry.
...prefer EA over Steam due to the much more interesting games... although...it is not comparable to Go_G!= offline installers,
that is all nothing!

...can`t get over BG3 with a turn-based system and if on Steam there will be BG3 with normal fighting I will go even there :D

edit:
I built a playhouse in my garden for video games and design/inspirational purposes... without internet in it, yet with a big screen, comfortable chair, all controllers, and a window that is giving me a view of wild birds... I am bringing here my mobile to turn on the internet and write on the forum...
when you want to play a game, you need to focus, the internet will distract you, your mobile will distract you, no mobiles is a policy in serious places, if you really like your games, not for fame or for getting friends if you really like your games... you LOVE offline installers : )

Steam has functional products (more that can be said about GOG in these last two weeks) that get actually updated ASAP (more that can be said about GOG... well, ever).

The main con for me is that as the biggest gaming paltform by far there is so much stuff it's basically impossible to find anything truly intersting you wouldn't have found otherwise without knowing already rpecisely what you're searching for.
On GOG I often stumble upon games I'd have most likely missed that I end up loving.

- Big Picture Mode and in house streaming through Steam Link
- extensive controller support

I can stream any game I own (be it Steam, GOG, good ol' retail or any other platform) to my big TV in the living room if I'm in the mood for couch (co-op) gaming. My PC chugs away at my desk while I game away on the couch. I can use practically any gamepad I have as long as it's USB and customize the control scheme to my heart's content.

Shame about the DRM...

Plenty of drm free games on steam. I use goldberg and steaml. for the ones which have steam drm to back them up

Steam pros:

Not having to check a list of Games that treat Steam customers as second class citizens.
Functional forums.

GOG pros:

Offline installers.
(Mostly) DRM free.
Not needing a bloated client running in the background in order to play a game.

1. Games dont take forever to get there (a little on GOG due to market share issues)

2. Lively communities where individual game boards actually have content like walkthroughs, videos, etc. (Only lively social board is the general board on GOG which they can work on)

I came into PC gaming relatively late so prefer achievements on Playstation over Steam. In terms of games, Epic gives the best

I like GOG for its decent curation of games and offline installers. Would like more DRM-free AA games like Nier Automata but with the recent Yakuza influx, GOG is doing well although a little worried about DRM-ish content in their recent CDPR games.

Why just Steam? If we're going to talk about other gaming sites, let's talk about all the ones that we have experience with.

Epic is one of my favorite other stores because they keep giving away free games every Thursday (and sometimes daily during sales.) I have a long list of games, some available on GOG and some not, that I got through this store. I bought Costume Quest on GOG, then Epic gave me Costume Quest 2 for free. A lot of the games (not all of them) are properly DRM-free and will work without the Epic launcher or an online connection.

Itch is another nice storefront IF you like indie developers. There's been some games that have shown up here on GOG that I first heard about due to having played the demo version on itch. Yes, the site has a lot of game jams and things of questionable quality, but there really is some good stuff if you're willing to look around. Even some of the game jam stuff is worth playing. Some of my favorites from this site (not on GOG) include the other Chook & Sosig games, A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, Back Home for Christmas, Beasts of Maravilla Island, Catlandia, Character Sheets Please, Cuckoo Curling, Little Things Remastered, Self-Checkout Unlimited, and Vignettes.

IndieGala is an odd one. The site has the absolute worst launcher, and the website isn't much better. It's also full of porn games and Steam keys. However the freebies are always without DRM and downloaded from the IndiGala site/launcher directly. Another oddity of this one is that there's games in the launcher's freebie section that don't show up on the website's freebie section as if the thing is so bad that they forgot to go in and remove it. I really do mean games that are not free on Steam, GOG or any other site that they show up on... like 2Dark is still there, which is $24.99 (US) on Steam. Fortunately once a game is claimed through the launcher, you don't need to use it to actually play it.

There's also FireFlower Games. While I haven't bought anything there, I do recognize some of their freebie stuff as things that are also available on Itch.

As for Steam, the thing I like about Steam is that their forum require you to have actually purchased a game yourself in order to post anything. I think that GOG should do the same thing as it might help prevent the forums here from being spammed up by bots during what are the evening hours for my time zone.

STEAM...

1. Selection and timely releases.

2. Active Groups with their recommendations

3. Access to developers. Many indie devs are active on Steam forums.

4. Active MP servers. While I'm not a big MP player, this is where I go to play MP and Co-Op games

5. Steam games are often updated to the latest patch

GOG...

1. mostly DRM-free catalog

2. Site and Sales are slightly easier to navigate than Steam

3. GOG occasionally responds (in action) to forum requests

4. In the past GOG Support has been accommodating (with me) when GOG has made mistakes