Steam – play Fallout: New Vegas without Steam

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I just bought Fallout: New Vegas today on Amazon for the computer and I am dying to play it, but for some reason it made me install it on Steam and it is now updating the game which it says will take 5 hours.

Is there any way to bypass this?

Best Answer

Fallout: New Vegas uses Steamworks as its DRM solution, and therefore it requires Steam in order to play. Regardless of where you purchase it, you'll have to install Steam and install it via the Steam client in order to play it.