About 3 years ago I wanted to buy a game called "Magicka" from Steam. But due to some weird issues I couldn't proceed and pay. After waiting serveal hours and restarting the PC a couple of times, I gave up and created a new Steam account on which it worked just fine.
Lately I bought Magicka including 21 DLCs and registered it to my main Steam account.
Now I still have the normal Magicka on the second account I created years ago and I'm wondering if I couldn't just take the CD key and give it to a friend, sothat he could install it on his computer.
Would that be possible? What would he need? A retail disc?
Steam – Install game on another PC using the CD key from Steam
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Best Answer
You can't give away a Steam game license, they are account-bound. You can, however, use Steam Family Sharing to let other people play your games when you aren't playing (or when either of you is in offline mode, wink-wink nudge-nudge). Family Sharing is currently in closed beta, so you'll need to wait to get access or for it to become public for an undetermined period of time, though.