Subj : Re: Steam
To   : Al
From : Arelor
Date : Sun May 18 2025 17:38:26

  Re: Re: Steam
  By: Al to Arelor on Sun May 18 2025 01:13 pm

 >
 > I haven't been on steam for years but I used that option to backup and
 > reinstall games in the past. I'm sure if I looked through my stack of disks
 > I could find a few of them.
 >

I did a quick online search and so far it seems that Steam provide a way to pseudo-backup your games using their UI. By the look of it, the intent of such is that if your PC crashes you can re-import your game library into a new PC rather than redownload all your things.

It still leaves me cold as an alternative because your copies of the games are still linked to Steam and so far this pseudo-backup functionality is clearly less complete than just copying the game files over to archival media alonside a Steam DRM mocker.


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