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After installing a game through steam the desktop shortcut nor the icon in the whisker menu appear.
Games will launch through the steam client and run as usual though.
I have tried now but no success. The games work but only through the steam client.
Sorry it hasn't worked for you.
It might be possible to run games w/o steam but it doesn't sound like it works for long.
How to run Steam games offline forever (Tutorial)
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This doesn't work "forever". Eventually, maybe after a month but usually 3-6 months (possibly longer) of being offline without any kind of internet connection,
If those links don't help I'm afraid I'm out of ideas because even if you start the game from the folder it's in it will still start the steam client if it needs it. Sorry:-
Last idea would be to install Wine so you can play Windows games on Linux.
OR try PlayOnLinux:-
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