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What do you mean by just grab the original steam files mate?
Not sure what it's called, but there's a downloader that just pulls the files straight from Steam. If you don't own the game, Steam won't run it, but you already have the files and you can use a Steam DRM crack.
SteamCMD?
Maybe? I know SteamCMD is just the command-line version of their client. Does it require credentials to download?
Back in the day, there was a GUI tool that would just download any game from Steam, but I don't know if it's still a thing.
You have to login with your steam account, but yes, it lets you download pretty much anything, things that the normal Steam won't let you play because you haven't bought them or for other weird reasons.
Typical use for
steamcmdis to force-download the Windows version of a game that the publisher insists can't be played with Proton. I've used it for example to force-download the Binding of Isaac, which works perfectly fine with Proton, but for some reason the game refused to install with regular Steam on Linux. After I downloaded it I could set the compatibility to Proton and it worked fine. 🤷You can also use steamcmd to automate the installation of multiple games, for example after you reinstalled your PC, and so on.