What you say is true but it is a incorrect answer to what he is asking. Because there is no benefit of buying the game on Steam since you also get the Steam version when you buy from the website, and vice versa. Your answer says the benefit of actually playing the game through Steam.Tertius wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 7:51 pmSteam has the advantage that it will keep Factorio updated. Since there will be a major expansion released the next days, I guess there will be quite some bugfixes and possibly balancing updates over the next months, so this is quite useful. Steam also includes saving to the steam cloud, which enables you to play on different PCs without requiring you to manually copy savefiles over. Can also be seen as kind of backup - saves in the Steam cloud are still there even if you crash your computer.
To add to Koub's reply, you can also set Steam to stay on a older version, maybe even have multiple versions installed at the same time, latter im not sure about.