Hello, I've just bought DoD and I'm yet to explore it completely, but I was wondering - is there a way to play it without Steam? You see, I sometime get bored in work and I can't install Steam there and so far I haven't found a way to make Steam portable So - is there a non-Steam version?
One option (the one I use) is to install the game at home, then open the Steam client and chose the 'Go Offline' option. As long as you have the game installed you can still run it with Steam in Offline mode without being connected to Steam
The problem with that is that you need to install steam and get the game installed. Which ceemko can not do on the work computer. I don't actually have any ideas myself, just wanted to point out that that would not really work
Try to make a copy of "Steam" from C:\ or wherever and put it on a USB drive? Not sure. Can you play games via the site? Hmm I am not sure, maybe have a look at those...
I'm not sure about windows, but it's probably the same. If you go into the install directory for Steam and look in SteamApps/common/dungeons\ of\ dredmor/ you should be able to find the executable. On my computer this executable can be ran independently of steam.
If you are a linux guy, you still can wait for the linux binaries and use them at work. If you're not, then you screwed.
Uh I actually just made a copy of the game from steamapps/common folder to my flashdrive and it works flawlessly This solution at first seemed so trivial I didn't even hope it would work so I haven't tried it at first..
It's not possible to run the game without Steam. It is possible however to get Steam working from behind a proxy. I occassionally use a program called WideCap to bounce steam through an external proxy so I can autehnticate steam into offline mode.
As I said - by copying the DoD directory from steamapps/common you will make it work on your flash drive anywhere, even without Steam. Tested.
Actually I tested that just now and it works! I didn't even bother trying before because all other Steam games try to launch steam even if you launch the executable directly. Of course you'll need to manually 'sync' your portable version with Steam every once and awhile as patches come out.
