Running the game w/o steam running

[friendlyx3]

I'm just wondering if it's intended that you cannot play the game with steam not open/running? I just don't want to open steam every time I want to run the game. I play single player only as well. Also the play offline option is greyed out in the same dialog.

[Roland]

You must have steam running when you start the game so it can run the authentication.  Once you are in the world you can ALT TAB over to close Steam and keep playing as far as I know.

[Syphon583]

I might be mistaken, but I don't think you need steam to run it. Many people run multiple overhaul mods concurrently (though separate saves, obviously), and to play each one, you can create a custom exe on your desktop. You can add the exe shortcut on your desktop and just don't edit any of the parameters. From Steam, click on the gear icon when viewing 7 Days in the Library. Click Properties (I think) and you should see an option to view the local files. That should open your steam directory

"[drive and folder you save your steam library]\Steam\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die"

 

In there you should see the exe file. Right click and select Send to Desktop. You'll want to close steam completely before you launch the exe from the desktop (right click the icon in the system tray and select Exit) just to make sure it works as intended. Again, I don't think steam needs to be running for it to work, but give that a go.

[friendlyx3]

33 minutes ago, Syphon583 said:

I might be mistaken, but I don't think you need steam to run it. Many people run multiple overhaul mods concurrently (though separate saves, obviously), and to play each one, you can create a custom exe on your desktop. You can add the exe shortcut on your desktop and just don't edit any of the parameters. From Steam, click on the gear icon when viewing 7 Days in the Library. Click Properties (I think) and you should see an option to view the local files. That should open your steam directory

"[drive and folder you save your steam library]\Steam\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die"

 

In there you should see the exe file. Right click and select Send to Desktop. You'll want to close steam completely before you launch the exe from the desktop (right click the icon in the system tray and select Exit) just to make sure it works as intended. Again, I don't think steam needs to be running for it to work, but give that a go.

 

This is how my setup is currently. It no longer works with A20. Right before you get to the game menu it displays the dialog I mentioned above. As Roland has stated above, the game now requires steam to be open when opening the game. So basically creating a shortcut like you mentioned will unfortunately lead to the mentioned dialog popping up(assuming steam isn't open). It's not a big deal I was just curious.

Edited June 22, 2022 by friendlyx3 (see edit history)

[Syphon583]

Ah, yeah that's a shame. I guess I've never fully tested running it without Steam myself as I've never had a reason to.