Can you play cracked games using the Steam launcher?

As the title says, if someone theoretically wanted to play a cracked game on Linux (not me), could they use the official Steam launcher, or would they have to use Lutris?

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13 Comments

CrayonRosary@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y (7 replies)

You can add any program as a non-steam game to Steam. It simply adds it as a shortcut, but you can add art and icons.

It was a joke a long time ago to rename a random exe like Notepad as "Half Life 3 Beta", add it to Steam, and troll your friends by leaving it running all day.

wiccan2@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

Not only adds it as a shortcut, but also allows you to use steam input to remap controls, very useful on the deck.

taiyang@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I'm stealing that for the next time I'm playing a non-steam game. It's just old enough nobody will know.

Mkengine@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

What is the most convenient way to add art? Is there a tool, something more automatic than downloading jpgs from some website yourself?

CrayonRosary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

You just right click the game entry in various contexts to add an icon, banner art, etc. There are like 4 different sizes and contexts.

BlessedDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

SGDBoop

Mkengine@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

It's important to mention that you need to set the shortcut to run as Proton Experimental.

WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y

Yup, I prefer lutris though

AceSLS@ani.social · 2 pts · 2y

Like another comment already said, yes you can. Why would you do that though? Steam sucks so much and running games with lutris works about 5 times better

kurumin@linux.community · 0 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Test (seems to have a federation problem here)

Petter1@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Test

tea@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2y

Test