• Qvest@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Some games from Steam can still be used without Steam’s DRM. It’s a little difficult to pull it off, but it can be done

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        A lot of games don’t require Steam’s DRM, you quit Steam and launch through the Steam directory and it still works. I haven’t tried it, but I’m pretty sure I can copy that game to a computer with no internet access and no Steam client and it’ll work. I haven’t done that though, I’ve only done it when I forgot my kids were playing on my account on another computer and wanted to play a game.

        A lot of games don’t work this way, but a lot do. Try it for yourself.

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          You’d need something like the Goldberg Steam Emulator, since a lot of games rely on services and APIs that Steam provides

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              I believe it holds true for some single player games as well. I seem to remember Half-Life 2 not wanting to launch without Steam present, same for some other Source games. That really might not be the case though, I’m curious to do more testing… Either way, I watch enough Linux gaming on ARM SBCs (check out MicroLinux and LeePSPComputer on YouTube), can I see them using Goldberg from time to time to get games running with no Steam

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        Even then. If steam actually locks out out of your games, then I bet hacked will quickly put more effort to sidestep the drm and make that more easily accessible.

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      Drm on Steam is optional. It’s up to the dev whether to include any or not.

      However, if the game uses any steam features, like achievements, voice chat, leaderboards, etc., then those won’t work without steam.