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You are in luck, Valve has SteamCMD[1] for users just like yourself! It is a command line version of the Steam client and can do most of what you need like down
by Starz0r 8y ago
You are in luck, Valve has SteamCMD[1] for users just like yourself! It is a command line version of the Steam client and can do most of what you need like downloading, updating, even verifying game integrity from the command line! I only wish it was open source, maybe someone can reverse engineer it?
[1] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD
- Laaas 8y agobut how do you run a game from that?
- h1d 8y agoIf it's possible someone can come up with a small UI that only lists and launches games.
- Rumudiez 8y agoFrom the article: https://github.com/DioJoestar/SteamCMD-GUI/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/DioJoestar/SteamCMD-GUI/blob/master/READM... They don’t seem to have a *nix referral, but seems totally possible to make.
- Fnoord 8y agoPlaynite [1]. Open source, lightning fast, and light on resources. You can even combine different platforms such as Steam + Battle.net. Saves you running each of these. Though you lose things like downloads and social. Heck, it even has support for emulators. [1] https://playnite.link https://playnite.link
- gitorian 8y agoNever heard of it, but the project sounds promising. You still have to install the proprietary client, right?
- xPaw 8y agoSteam protocol has been well understood for a while now: https://github.com/steamre/steamkit https://github.com/steamre/steamkit Which is based on reverse engineering the Steam client, so you can implement game downloading yourself.
- Fnoord 8y agoIt appears to be only for downloading/updating game servers; not for downloading/updating games.