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MiniNinja Dec 7, 2018 @ 6:40am

Silly question but, does uninstalling games in steam from one PC delete my games in the other?

AS the title says, I've bought a new gaming laptop and before uninstalling games from my previous one, I've installed most of them in the new laptop. Now I want to clear up space in my old PC by clearing the steam games, but was wondering if deleting or uninstalling them in this PC (old), would also uninstall in the new one?

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Originally posted by Levi:

t was wondering if deleting or uninstalling them in this PC (old), would also uninstall in the new one?

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No.

Steam files are local files - meaning that they will exist on specific devices.

If you delete them on one device, the other device should not be affected.

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Ailwynn Dec 7, 2018 @ 9:58am

By uninstalling a game you just remove the files from the device you chose to uninstall it from. Though, you keep the game on your account and if you have it downloaded on another pc it does not uninstall itself, so you can keep playing on it. I hope that helps, i know I'm bad at explaining things.

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Levi Dec 7, 2018 @ 10:24am

t was wondering if deleting or uninstalling them in this PC (old), would also uninstall in the new one?

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No.

Steam files are local files - meaning that they will exist on specific devices.

If you delete them on one device, the other device should not be affected.

MiniNinja Dec 7, 2018 @ 8:38pm

Originally posted by Ailwynn:
By uninstalling a game you just remove the files from the device you chose to uninstall it from. Though, you keep the game on your account and if you have it downloaded on another pc it does not uninstall itself, so you can keep playing on it. I hope that helps, i know I'm bad at explaining things.

Yea I was able to understand from your comment. Thanks for clarifying this !

MiniNinja Dec 7, 2018 @ 8:38pm

Originally posted by Robin3sk:
t was wondering if deleting or uninstalling them in this PC (old), would also uninstall in the new one?
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No.

Steam files are local files - meaning that they will exist on specific devices.

If you delete them on one device, the other device should not be affected.

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Awesome. Thanks for helping me out!