: CryEngine 5.7 is the Long-Term Support (LTS) version and is the final iteration of the "V" series. New community-driven versions, like the CryEngine Community Edition , may also be distributed as patches that require an existing 5.7 installation.
While Epic Games provides robust ZIP downloads for Unreal Engine, and Unity has decent offline support, CryEngine is heavily tethered to its Launcher. The "work" involved in an offline installer is mostly manual labor—copying, pasting, and registry hacking. cryengine offline installer work
The offline installer works perfectly for running the engine. It only fails if you try to install new engine versions or assets without internet. : CryEngine 5