Hi, this game looks incredible and I really want to play it. Can I play Beta without steam?
Hi, Sorry to say but afaik it’s only the final release that will be available without steam.
Yes having both alpha and beta working with steam makes it easier/less work for the devs to allow people to play the game which will mean more time actually working on the game.
The game on release will be steam free, if you don’t like the online aspect of steam you can always play Grim Dawn in offline mode.
When I bought the game, it stated you could not?
You currently cannot play alpha/beta without Steam.
Only final Release is confirmed to have a DRM free non-Steam version (available over Humble Store).
You need to have/create a Steam-Account, and to download the beta client, as well as all beta patches through the Steam-Client which you must have installed.
The only thing you can do is, once the game is installed you can switch Steam into offline mode. After that you can play Grim Dawn without being connected to the internet (no always-on required). But you will have to switch Steam back to online-mode and connect it again temporarily to download patches.