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Those apps (assuming they aren't indie) will almost always try to communicate with the Steam client. There are hooks which automatically run Steam if it's not a
by throwaway3699 5y ago
Those apps (assuming they aren't indie) will almost always try to communicate with the Steam client. There are hooks which automatically run Steam if it's not available.
- creshal 5y agoSteam API integration is entirely optional, so it's not just indie games that ignore them or fail gracefully. Obviously you can't access Steam's online services in the game, but that's not a stopper for many games.
- throwaway3699 5y agoAlmost all Steam games do use achievements and other stuff though (which works offline, but not forever). The reason I mention it is because you have to go out of the way to fail gracefully.
- poisonborz 5y agoThere are projects providing replacement Steam dll-s so these requests wouldn't crash the game (note, this isn't "cracking" the game, it just removes Steam dependency for games that were coded as such)