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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

But then, how do you keep the game for later, like reinstalling it on a system that does not run steam, that won't work right?

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's just a folder. You keep the folder.

When you want to run it, you go to the folder and double-click the .exe of the game.

If you want, you can drop a shortcut to that exe somewhere convenient.

"Installing" is just putting files in a folder somewhere, and maybe adding a shortcut to the start menu so the user can find and run whatever got installed. There's nothing special about it.

Unless the .exe needs some other program to be installed, or some files that need to be available somewhere else (which these DRM free games don't), you can just move the folder the game is in wherever you like, another PC even, and it'll still run just fine.

[-] fluckx@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

This. I used to have a bunch of the games backed up on a hard drive because copying the files over & patching was faster than redownloading it.

[-] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Same - I used this tool which worked great for that workflow:

http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Pirate magic, me boy!

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, you can do that. It's obviously on you to figure out how you want to do it, but that's exactly what no DRM means

And I don't mean it's technically possible, you can backup the game files through steam and put them on a flash drive, and there you go

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