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Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 5 days ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] chameleon@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago

It technically still exists in the game properties -> installed files tab, but it doesn't really work. The backup files you get require you to be online to meaningfully restore and will trigger a patch to the latest game version.

Practically speaking it's better to just make a copy of the game install directory manually, gives you a better chance of things working (even though most games require some kind of external tooling for that).

[-] ouch@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

What file format does the Steam backup use?

[-] chameleon@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

For current exports, it's some custom .csm/.csd file combo. Not sure if there's any tools for working with it, seems like it'd be more annoying than just using a normal archive format either way.