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theandrewbailey
on April 4, 2018
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Only if you have a version that exists outside Steam. If a game has been installed through Steam, it must have the Steam client running to play.
dleslie
on April 4, 2018
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Only if the Game requires it; that's an API call.
Many games you get from Steam can be run without the client.
thirdsun
on April 4, 2018
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That‘s really up to the game developer, who can (and often do) use Steam DRM, but it‘s certainly not mandatory.
eikenberry
on April 4, 2018
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Not true. I know I've been able to run many games by directly running the binary on the filesystem w/o the Steam client running.
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