Are games required to post if Broadband connection required?

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

Recently I bought a single player game(no MP no co op options) to play when my internet is down.


I learned however, that the game requires internet to play, You cant launch or continue to play, without an active internet connection.

The game at no point states a broad band connection is required, like other games do.


So is this required? Or can you sell a game that requires online always but not state that in the pc requirement section?

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

I never heard of a single player non-online game that requires internet to start a match or game, like if its not there then I cant imagine thats actually the issue..

[Muppet among Puppets]

Which game?

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

Originally posted by Shizune:

I never heard of a single player non-online game that requires internet to start a match or game, like if its not there then I cant imagine thats actually the issue..

Stranded Alien Dawn My internet was offline all day. I bought that game with intent to play when my service is down.

You cant play if you dont have internet. It wont load. And they make no mention on the store page of Network: Broadband Internet connection It has no mention.

Tried their support, it reroutes you to steam store page.

I cant get past the auto boot steam support for over 2 hours in a game.

The game is being sold as a single player game, but it is a single player online only game. Since internet is required,



Something doesnt seem right about not including that info.

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Which game?

Stranded Alien Dawn

https://imgur.com/9FNLZTQ

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

So while I indeed dont see it on the page, that may of just been a slight oversight, they are missing a few bits of info altogether but it being an early access game implies (at least to me) they are focused more on getting the game functional then details on the page. I might be wrong but thats just what I see.

[Muppet among Puppets]

It uses denuvo drm. But you are right, there is nothing that indicates for the average user that online connection is required.

To clarify: Does the game run offline after you started it once with online connection? And if you run steam in offline mode?

If no to both, you have a reason to ask for a refund because the store page does not inform you enough.

[d3str0y3r]

Originally posted by ToothlessRaider:

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Which game?

Stranded Alien Dawn

https://imgur.com/9FNLZTQ

That message is because it uses Denuvo Anti-tamper which requires an internet for the first launch. And i believe once every 30 days after that.

Any game that uses Denuvo Anti-tamper has this requirement.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Originally posted by d3str0y3r:

Originally posted by ToothlessRaider:

Stranded Alien Dawn

https://imgur.com/9FNLZTQ

That message is because it uses Denuvo Anti-tamper which requires an internet for the first launch. And i believe once every 30 days after that.

Any game that uses Denuvo Anti-tamper has this requirement.

Ahhh that makes sense then, wonder if the devs are aware of that..

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

Originally posted by d3str0y3r:

Originally posted by ToothlessRaider:

Stranded Alien Dawn

https://imgur.com/9FNLZTQ

That message is because it uses Denuvo Anti-tamper which requires an internet for the first launch. And i believe once every 30 days after that.

Any game that uses Denuvo Anti-tamper has this requirement.

Understood, but it would be nice if they said this on the store page. My purchase was made with the intentions of playing offline.

I live on a 40 acre farm, and Xfinity is redoing the lines to fiber optics, so I am 10 hours offline daily for next few weeks. I cant enjoy the game I bought with the intent I bought it for.


Not saying I was scammed. But I was sold a product with false labels that directly resulted in me making a purchase.


Had the devs labeled the game correctly, I would have bought another game instead.

So in that regards, I feel kind of cheated. And I cant contact the devs, their website keeps relinking to steam. Steam auto denies request over 2 hours.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by ToothlessRaider:

I live on a 40 acre farm, and Xfinity is redoing the lines to fiber optics, so I am 10 hours offline daily for next few weeks.

You get fibre internet. Only 10 hours offline a day for a while. The game runs 30 days offline.

That sounds very positive for me. Start the game on a weekend once in a while. And soon you have fibre internet. Awesome.

Look at it this way.

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Originally posted by ToothlessRaider:

I live on a 40 acre farm, and Xfinity is redoing the lines to fiber optics, so I am 10 hours offline daily for next few weeks.

You get fibre internet. Only 10 hours offline a day for a while. The game runs 30 days offline.

That sounds very positive for me. Start the game on a weekend once in a while. And soon you have fibre internet. Awesome.

Look at it this way.

I live on a 40 acre farm. When I lived in Chicago, inside the city. I never had issues.

I traded bullets for corn. But at the cost of stability of service. For the past 10 years we have outages all the time. Atleast once every 3 month a drunk college kind rams the transformers on Highway 2 sending the entire town into a no service for a day or 2.


Or a cold snap screws the line.


I already have get 900mps down and 30 up, so fiber doesnt do much for me. I bought the game for offline use mainly. When I am online I have other thing I do,


The price of the game wont kill me. I just dont like being mis informed when I make a purchase. Just leaves a foul taste.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by ToothlessRaider:

Originally posted by d3str0y3r:

That message is because it uses Denuvo Anti-tamper which requires an internet for the first launch. And i believe once every 30 days after that.

Any game that uses Denuvo Anti-tamper has this requirement.

Understood, but it would be nice if they said this on the store page. My purchase was made with the intentions of playing offline.

I live on a 40 acre farm, and Xfinity is redoing the lines to fiber optics, so I am 10 hours offline daily for next few weeks. I cant enjoy the game I bought with the intent I bought it for.


Not saying I was scammed. But I was sold a product with false labels that directly resulted in me making a purchase.


Had the devs labeled the game correctly, I would have bought another game instead.

So in that regards, I feel kind of cheated. And I cant contact the devs, their website keeps relinking to steam. Steam auto denies request over 2 hours.

Your achievements indicate January. So your over both parameters of the refund policy. The website lists that Denuvo Anti-Tamper is there (gold box on the right). While it doesn't outright say you need online verification every 30 days, Denuvo being listed means it can be interpreted as being listed. So the labels are correct.

It's up to the customer to inform themselves on what that means. Just like, for example, system requirements.

You can try a manual ticket. Find the purchase, choose the "I have a question about this purchase" option and explain politely. If they still say "no", take that as final. You can always be lucky.