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Hey have you tried Steam Family or whatever it’s called? You can make a new user and they have access to all of your game library. Only one account would be able to play at a time but it would solve your save file dilemma - games files are in the common folder but save files are in the user folder

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borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Since they just have the one pc, they should be able to just make a serving user on the pc then sign in to the single steam account. The new user won’t have any save files in the local user directories, so the game gets launched and you’ll only see the “second” set of saves. No idea how this would work with cloud saves on the steam side though.

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- eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You would have to completely disable cloud saves for this which is risky.
  
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- glimse@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That would be even more work IMO
  
  Unless they want to separate their non-game files, too
  
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  - borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Wait, so how does that work for games that store saves in ‘c:\users%user%\my documents’ and stuff? That’s why I assumed they’d also need a separate user account on the pc.
    
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    glimse@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Good question. At the very least, steam will cloud sync it regardless of where it’s at on the drive so that’s an option
    
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- RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This might have been the issue as well? All the saves were in the Cloud. But I’m not very techy. While I can follow instructions (I think), software seems to hate me. The hardware, we’re friends!
  
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  - borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If that was the issue then doing two separate user accounts on the PC, then having a primary steam account (the existing one with all the games) and a secondary new one, and putting them into a Steam family together just like the person I replied to said would be functionally equivalent to yall having two separate PCs with your own steam accounts when it comes to saves and steam achievements and stuff, but you only need to buy and install the game once. It’ll also let you have separate config files so if one person like controls bound one way and the other another you’re not having to rebind each time yall swap who is playing and everything.
    
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    RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Rebound keys is important because husband has cerebral palsy and needs to heavily modify the layout, that’s good then!
    
    So many games also don’t allow that as well, multiple key maps!
    
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