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Why wont steam allow you to play a game you downloaded?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 12/11/2022

Was it a prepurchase? If so, you can't play the game until it is actually released. What you did was preloading a game, which means downloading it before, so you can play it immediately after it's released.

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