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RabbitCatRobot Oct 25, 2022 @ 7:44pm
Playing same steam games in the same house on 2 computers? (Not remote play)
Am moving in with my chick soon, am giving her my other computer, shes not much of a gamer, but we do play a few games together. Some I'd like to play don't support split-screen or same screen.
Is there a away to be logged into the same game, at the same time on the same account in the same house hold?
like I want to install the game on both PCs, not use remote play.
thanks if you can point me in the right direction.
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Anonymous Helper Oct 25, 2022 @ 7:52pm 
By getting her her own separate Steam account and buying another copy of the game for that account.
Last edited by Anonymous Helper; Oct 25, 2022 @ 7:53pm
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RabbitCatRobot Oct 25, 2022 @ 7:53pm 
I thought there was some kinda family share or something we could do
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rawWwRrr Oct 25, 2022 @ 7:59pm 
Family sharing doesn't remove the one game running per library limit.

A common workaround is to set the library owner's Steam install to offline mode. It would let the borrower through family share play games while allowing the library owner to continue playing games that don't require them to be online, like single player games. If you're hoping to both be online in some multi-player game at the same time while using your library, that's not going to happen. In those instances you'll want to make sure that she owns a copy of that game on her own account.
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RabbitCatRobot Oct 25, 2022 @ 8:30pm 
I have no intention of us both being online . just wanna play some games together on diff PCs without having to buy the game twice
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Samurai Oct 25, 2022 @ 8:40pm 
Alternatively, find two copies of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1/2 and absolutely rekt her.
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RabbitCatRobot Oct 25, 2022 @ 10:15pm 
Originally posted by Excalibur:
Alternatively, find two copies of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1/2 and absolutely rekt her.
lol that was random
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Pscht Oct 25, 2022 @ 11:51pm 
Originally posted by lovemehate:
I have no intention of us both being online . just wanna play some games together
And how is that supposed to work? Hardly any games offer a LAN mode these days.
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RabbitCatRobot Oct 28, 2022 @ 12:44am 
Originally posted by Pscht:
Originally posted by lovemehate:
I have no intention of us both being online . just wanna play some games together
And how is that supposed to work? Hardly any games offer a LAN mode these days.
Why would we need LAN when the games would of been downloaded, and connected to steam. Online?
Clearly it does not work that way, so it does not matter.
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Haruspex Oct 28, 2022 @ 1:14am 
Originally posted by lovemehate:
Originally posted by Pscht:
And how is that supposed to work? Hardly any games offer a LAN mode these days.
Why would we need LAN when the games would of been downloaded, and connected to steam. Online?
Clearly it does not work that way, so it does not matter.

Because to play the game at the same time, one of you needs to be offline. You can't play together online when one of you is offline.

With LAN, at least you could connect to each other on your local network. Again though, hardly any newer games even support that.

Really the best thing is for her to just get her own account with it's own library.
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