Can you play two of your games on steam on two seperate PC's?

[Cjmax]

I've been looking into getting a laptop and I was wondering if I could play games from my steam account on both my main PC and my laptop at the same time. The reason I want to do this is so I could say, play a bit of CS:GO while also being present on my server in Garry's Mod just in case anyone were to need me quickly.

Is this possible at all? Thanks in advance.

[Darkwater]

I think you could set up family sharing to do this. Not exactly sure how it works, though.

[editline]27th April 2014[/editline]

Using an alternative account, I mean.

[ペゴボド]

No, because if you play a single one of your games, nobody can play any of your games.

[chipsnapper]

No, if you log on to the client at two places on the same time, it will say that you're logged in somewhere else and ask for your password. If you put in your password and continue, the other Steam will do it too, and so on.

[elix]

If Steam allowed you to log in twice and play two different games simultaneously, the casual piracy of "borrowing" someone's Steam account would be stratospheric.

That's also how a lot of people who didn't read a thing thought Family Sharing was going to work. Then they threw big tantrums when their impossible fantasy wasn't actually what was being offered. :v:

[aiusepsi]

[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;44660569]No, if you log on to the client at two places on the same time, it will say that you're logged in somewhere else and ask for your password. If you put in your password and continue, the other Steam will do it too, and so on.[/QUOTE] If you're in the in-home streaming beta, you can be logged in two places at once. It's actually required to use in-home streaming, you have to be logged in to both the source computer and the computer you're using as the streaming client.

[elix]

[QUOTE=aiusepsi;44661058]If you're in the in-home streaming beta, you can be logged in two places at once. It's actually required to use in-home streaming, you have to be logged in to both the source computer and the computer you're using as the streaming client.[/QUOTE]

A source-client streaming context is different from a two-independent-clients context for authentication.