• bigdog_00@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’d need something like the Goldberg Steam Emulator, since a lot of games rely on services and APIs that Steam provides

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      1 year ago

      Looks like it’s for MP? I almost never play MP, so maybe that’s why I haven’t run into it.

      Thanks for the correction. :)

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        1 year ago

        I believe it holds true for some single player games as well. I seem to remember Half-Life 2 not wanting to launch without Steam present, same for some other Source games. That really might not be the case though, I’m curious to do more testing… Either way, I watch enough Linux gaming on ARM SBCs (check out MicroLinux and LeePSPComputer on YouTube), can I see them using Goldberg from time to time to get games running with no Steam