Tou don't, the default shortcuts it creates uses an url like format and steam to track down what exact binary you want to run, but if you double click the exe in the directory it works with steam closed. Lots of games (specifically indie games) have no DRM at all, you can freely copy to some other storage and play it later.
>Lots of games (specifically indie games) have no DRM at all, you can freely copy to some other storage and play it later.
I doubt your "lots" claim, it is ambiguous, do you maybe mean a very few ?
I found this
>Total number of DRM-free games: 1,075 out of 41,147 games in total.
Tou don't, the default shortcuts it creates uses an url like format and steam to track down what exact binary you want to run, but if you double click the exe in the directory it works with steam closed. Lots of games (specifically indie games) have no DRM at all, you can freely copy to some other storage and play it later.