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A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding OP's question and just suggesting places that offer free games.
OP is asking if there's any not shady way to get a game that's offered for free on Steam without DRM other than using the Steam client.
If the game is only available through Steam then unfortunately the answer is no. Depending on the nature of your objection to the Steam client there are some possible courses of action other than going somewhere sketchy though.
You could install it, download the game, copy it from the Steam install location, then uninstall Steam.
Alternatively keep a sandboxed Steam client installed in a VM to download the game which you extract from the VM.
Another option might be to just ask someone you know that does use Steam to download the game and send it to you.
Oh yea, I think I am just gonna use a VM and make a burner account. Still the original phrasing of the question was bad so don't blame them lol. It's edited. Some people still suggested itch.io after that (I already use itch.io and GOG btw (And also got all my games off steam except the ones with denuvo or that, they were mostly indie singleplayer games anyways)) but it was certainly less people.