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DAH333 Jan 18, 2014 @ 9:10am
What would happen to my steam games if my PC breaks?
My PC is getting old and could break soon, if my PC dies will I lose all my games and what I bought in thoughs games be lost.

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Tev Jan 18, 2014 @ 9:17am 
Your games are tied to your Steam account, not your computer. You can download your games back even if you didn't store any files. If you have a bad internet connection, you can just copy the SteamApps folder to some external HDD.

Some games have Steam Cloud -saving (which means Steam downloads your saves back from the cloud if they don't exist on your HDD.), those that don't have Steam Cloud, usually have the saves under My Documents or %appdata%
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DAH333 Jan 18, 2014 @ 10:00am 
Thank you so much.
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Ineffable Anathema Jan 18, 2014 @ 10:13am 
I have to add, always keep a manual backup of ALL of your save games. NEVER trust Steam Cloud or the games to save them. Both have been known to destroy saves.
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DAH333 Jan 18, 2014 @ 1:57pm 
Thank you
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