Re: Top 20 Steam Games

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From: rri... Ross Ridge
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:28

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Dimensional Traveler  <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
>Its linked "enough" that it tracks the number of hours I've played it 
>and when I last played it.

It only tracks those things if you start it from Steam client.  You can
bypass the client completely by just running the program "dosbox.exe"
in the game's install directory.  It's not copy protected so you can
also copy it somewhere else and uninstall the Steam client if you want.

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