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Passing Game Library on

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What happens to your games after you die depends on your store of choice

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A Steam customer service agent told a forum user delete12345 that you can’t pass down your Steam library to another person.

With the right legal permissions, GOG and Itch.io will try to honor these requests.

A GOG spokesperson said, with a court order, the company is “willing to handle such a situation and preserve your GOG library — but currently [it] can only do it with the help of the justice system.

Lawyer Claudine Wong wrote in 2013 that digital content is transferable to a deceased user’s survivors if legal copies of that content are located on physical devices, such as iPods or Kindle e-readers.

GOG 's end user agreement states that you can’t share or transfer your GOG account or content.

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