# Question games no longer available through the Steam store.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-games-no-longer-available-through-the-steam-store/688097>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 10, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-games-no-longer-available-through-the-steam-store/688097 "2014-05-10T02:07:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-games-no-longer-available-through-the-steam-store/688097/1 "2014-05-10T02:07:46Z")

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1.) If I purchased it before the removal, can I still download it, or is it gone altogether?

2.) Is there another way to get a legit download of the game that would allow me to use my Steam key to play it again or would I be SOL?

I’m low on of storage space, and I was thinking of temporarily uninstalling some games I’m not really playing lately, but worried about permanently losing them.

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-games-no-longer-available-through-the-steam-store/688097/2 "2014-05-10T02:18:31Z")

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As far as I know, of the few games removed from the Steam store all are still available for download if you purchased it before removal. I do recall that one may have been removed forever, but it’s extremely rare, and I think it was put back after enough people complained.

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**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-games-no-longer-available-through-the-steam-store/688097/3 "2014-05-10T02:38:20Z")

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> [@H3Knuckles](#):
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> I’m low on of storage space, and I was thinking of temporarily uninstalling some games I’m not really playing lately, but worried about permanently losing them.

You could just spend a hundred bucks for a few terabytes of external hard drive space. Steam supports making backups of your games in this fashion. And while it might not help if a game is removed for good, I’ve found a lot of recent games take well to simply copying and pasting the games, even between computers running different operating systems.

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**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-games-no-longer-available-through-the-steam-store/688097/4 "2014-05-10T05:55:39Z")

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Thanks **Jragon** , good to know. Oh, and **Grumman** , thanks for the tip; I didn’t realize you could do that.