I would lose some of my library, but I think most of it would still work.
A lot of steam games dont have drm
You would lose only most of your library, not all of it
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 days ago
RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 days ago
If a game has multiplayer, it most likely has DRM
Terraria and Cuphead are games i know dont work because of that
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It depends on the game and how they handle steam, if they see steam as a requirement then the game is choosing to use steam as a very rudimentary (and easily bypassed) DRM. But this is more about lazy development than DRM, essentially they’re not expecting the steam APIs to fail, which is ridiculous considering they have non-steam versions, so a simple if statement would solve this issue. Also this paints those games in a very bad light to me, because if they’re doing that with some API call on steam they might be doing it with another and now the game needs to be online always.
There are plenty of multiplayer games that don’t require steam, iirc all of the paradox games you can just copy the folder to a different computer without steam and run the binaries.
And while not ideal, someone else pointed in another comment that there’s an open source implementation of the steam API, so worst case scenario you just replace the library in your backup and you’re done.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Can you not connect by IP in Terraria? I had though I had multiplayer running without even starting steam at one point…
RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 days ago
Because steam multiplayer is implemented into the game, you cant open the app if steam is not installed
OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Plenty of games don’t rely on any Steamworks API at all. For the remaining http://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/ exits
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
But he’s not talking about those ones.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 days ago
You can play the game without the steam client