Here's one big benefit to Hytale not being on Steam: its refund policy is way better than Valve's

I'm pretty heavily Steam-pilled at this point. When I want to play a game and it comes out on a platform other than Steam, I always sigh dramatically and mutter a curse under my breath.

That's because now I have to download or at least update some other launcher, try to remember whatever the hell my password is because I haven't used it for so long, and jump through whatever two-factor authorization hoops I set up in the distant, forgotten past. Sometimes I even have to register for a whole new account somewhere.