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I've been obsessing over RimWorld again after finding out about Biotech and Anomaly which I had to get. I have it on GOG for some reason. Either it was on sale at some point or was given out free. But it's the only not old game I have on there and not on Steam; but I added it to Steam as a non-Steam game.
And then there's all the old games I have on there that may or may not also be on Steam. They weren't on Steam when I got them originally, but some have since been put on Steam (like Heretic and Hexen).
I also own ARMA 2 through Greenman Gaming, all the borderlands and Civ 6 on Epic (because free), and most of the Battlefield games and the C&C complete pack on EA's bullshit.
I'm not sure if you are in the same boat, but I bought ARMA 2 and Operation Arrowhead many years back directly from the dev's website. I logged into their site about a year ago, copied the registration keys, pasted them into Steam, and was able to redeem it through Steam directly. If your games have CD keys, Steam can oftentimes accept those directly like you are entering a Steam product key. I think you put it into the field where you enter Steam gift cards and product keys.
The Operation Arrowhead DLC (as well as all the others I got after that one, like the PMC addon) is shown on my Steam list and I think around that time they had some way of getting your non-Steam release of the base game on it because at the time they didn't have steam keys to do it, and launching the DLC does start the actual game, but the base game isn't actually listed in my Steam library, so I have no idea what's going on there 🤷🏻♂️
It's not that big of a deal since I have moved onto Arma 3 years ago and arma 4 is right around the corner.