Rent Sackboy: A Big Adventure

After payment, the login and password of an account that already owns the game appear on your rental page. If Steam asks for a confirmation code, you can take it with the “Get code” button on the same page.

You need internet to sign in to the account and download the game. Then you switch Steam to offline mode (“Steam” → “Go Offline”), and the game no longer needs a connection. This step is required: several people cannot play on one account online at the same time. Online modes and multiplayer are not available with this kind of rental.

Yes. You rent an account that owns the game, but the game files are downloaded to your PC — tens of gigabytes. The game size is shown on its page, so plan your rental time with the download in mind.

Access to the account is closed, so sign out of the account in Steam. Do not link anything of yours to it: the links will stay behind. Saves live on the account, and Steam Cloud may let the next renter overwrite them, so copy anything important from the game’s save folder before the rental ends. To extend, place a new order for the same game — for Steam we extend access on the same account.