Can this be played offline?

[GreatKuabara]

I wont have internet for a week and after a fail attempt at buying FF15 ive learned to ask around before i buy a game. So simply put can i play this with zero internet?

[m0k]

This game is 100% offline singleplayer. You only have to download it.

[GreatKuabara]

ok awesome thanks cuz ive realized steam is testly about offline and online needed for games

[Valden21]

Most of the time, a game that is online only will say so in the requirements section of the game's store page. Not all of them do, but most of them will.

[StreamWhenGuy]

I think they have introduced some restrictions recently. I heard about it somewhere. You have to be online on Steam on the first launch, and there is some limited amount of days or hours you can play in offline mode, then you need to go online to continue. Don't know if true though

[GreatKuabara]

that sounds so stupid when a console can do it and consoles suck ass

[Bomb Bloke]

Originally posted by StreamWhenGuy:

I think they have introduced some restrictions recently. I heard about it somewhere. You have to be online on Steam on the first launch, and there are some limited amount of days or hours you can play in offline mode, then you need to go online to continue. Don't know if true though :fengxi:

To install a game through Steam you need to be online. This is true even if you have all the files already on your drive - it'll insist on checking the servers to confirm they're the right copies, and the Steam launcher won't let you start a game until its checked it for updates at least once (and installed anything it happens to find).

Once a game has been launched at least once, you're generally good to go in offline mode. If you go online and more updates are found, though, Steam'll block that game from play again (online or offline) until they're installed. Games which lack DRM can still be started from outside of the Steam launcher, though.

Offline mode doesn't have an official "time limit" on it, as such. It just tends to bug out at random intervals, forcing players to go online again before they can re-activate it. Users who are affected are often able to get it working again by changing their system clock, but how long the mode works for after you enter it seems random... days, weeks, months, reports are highly variable. Valve says it's not supposed to stop at all.

[GreatKuabara]

for a main gaming store and launcher client it seems thats a serious issue that should have been long adressed

[xat.com/flirt]

try putting steam in offline mode early and turning your internet off and see if you can launch the game. the game can be played offline, but you need to be able to login to your steam account first which requires internet before you can even get into offline mode. i was in a hurricane and didnt have internet for an entire week and tried to play this game for some entertainment during this time, but couldnt get steam into offline mode because of this. i had to drive to a mcdonalds and use their wifi to get into offline mode and then go back home and launch the game. once in offline mode in steam, never close steam again otherwise you will be locked out of your account again without any internet. if you're careful it should work.