A couple of Steam gifting questions

The Game Room
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  1. Is it possible to buy a gift game for someone who doesn’t currently have a Steam account?

  2. How are those Train Simulator games? Easy to play for an old timer, say someone who has played the MS Flight Simulator games in the past?

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You can buy a gift game for someone not on steam but they won’t be able to play it unless they set up the steam client.

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As Inner Stickler says, to play a Steam game, your intended target will need to set up a Steam account. There is an option on purchase of a gift to send the gift code through email, and I would like to think that that email would talk someone through installing Steam and entering the code.

The Train Simulator games are excellent. There are two setting - one a very easy “Stop/Go” style control, the other using more realistic controls. Electric and diesel engines are also pretty easy in this mode, although steam engines are more involved.

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Thanks!