Okay to play more than 1 game simultaneously on Steam?

meths · 23 Dec 2009 at 15:08

As title really.

I've got two monitors and sometimes want to have two steam games running full screen at the same time e.g. if i'm mining on Eve and want to play a bit of Plants v Zombies while I'm waiting on my ship to fill up.

Will this cause any problems with my account?

uv · 23 Dec 2009 at 15:39

Try it and see

*edit*

I just opened 4 Steam games without issue.

Viper² · 23 Dec 2009 at 15:40

I don't think you can.

meths · 23 Dec 2009 at 15:47

You can do it but I was just wondering whether it's against the terms of use and could result in your account being banned.

I'm at work just now so I can't check on the Steam site.

uv · 23 Dec 2009 at 16:18

Meths said:
You can do it but I was just wondering whether it's against the terms of use and could result in your account being banned.

It's not mentioned here:

http://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

Streeteh · 23 Dec 2009 at 16:19

iirc what steam has problems with is multiple connections, so you could run every single game on your steam account from one computer, but the moment you try to connect with a different computer it'll stop you.

In short, it should be fine.

bledd · 23 Dec 2009 at 16:30

run plants vs zombies in window mode (it's in the game options)

it looks way better in a window anyway