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At this point, unless you can put it on a thumb drive and run it on any computer you meet without Internet connection...
You don't own it.
btw that's the case with most steam games. if it doesn't have DRM, all you need is the goldberg emu dll and done.
Gog is pretty good although they mostly have older games and small titles. I don't like there launcher as it is privacy invasive.
Luckily you don't need to use their launcher. Just download and run the installer for the game.
Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if there was some "remote kill" built into those local installers. For all you know it might delete itself on a particular date.