I had resisted going on Steam for a very long time due to my doubts about overpowered players in the market, but as we all know, after a while there came the first eagerly awaited game that was not available anywhere else.

I never became happy with Steam, its restrictions, the 90s interface and continued to try to avoid the store as much as possible. Accordingly, I purchased most games on GOG due to not-so-substantial restrictions and was reasonably happy with ‘Galaxy’ for a long time.

But then came August 2022 and with it version 2.0.53. At GOG they now thought it was a great idea to copy Steam & Ubi’s restriction of keeping games up to date: Scheduling game updates for installed games you’re not actively playing, as they call it in the changelog. In practice? Complete bullshit. Not even Train Valley, which I played at least once a week and already for over 100 hours, gets updated without me manually triggering the update via ‘Downloads’. Except for Epic Games, this anti-customer practice seems to be common practice everywhere by now.

So what I would love to have: A script/tool that opens the Steam, GOG and Microsoft Store windows, starts all the updates, watches them, and shuts down or puts the computer on standby when the updates are complete. Start when you go out, return home to play. Does anyone know of anything like this perhaps? Or would anyone know where to suggest something like this?