Marian, have you tried playing games that are installed in your Galaxy when you were not connected to the internet?

I do use Galaxy to download most of my games. And yes, when I launch the games from their game directory on my hard drive without using Galaxy, they all start up and run just fine, with or without the internet.

I've been playing Mystery of the Druids and using the desktop game icon shortcut and it opens up the Galaxy. Since I'm connected to the internet, I can't tell what it will do if I disconnect and I guess I just don't feel like testing it if I don't have to. One day I'll see.

Thanks.

I don't use Galaxy and I don't know if Galaxy itself will complain if there's no Internet connection.
But you can always make your own desktop shortcut to the game's .exe, and from what Marian says you won't need an Internet connection even if the game was installed by Galaxy.

That's exactly what I do with Galaxy to play games. It's very convenient for downloading large files, but very annoying when it starts to install an update when I just want to play!

Thanks Marian, Jenny, and Draclvr. Jenny, I know you mentioned doing that before when discussing Big Fish. I guess I will have to stop being so lazy and give that a try! I have to go to where the game is installed right?

There's more than one way to do it, but I think that's the easiest.
Go to the game folder
Locate the game's .exe
Right-click the game's .exe and choose Send To > Desktop Create Shortcut

After the shortcut is on the desktop, you can rename the shortcut if you want. Right-click the shortcut and choose Rename, then type in the new name.
(or you can also sometimes just click the text under the shortcut and get it to highlight, and once that text is highlighted you can type in the new name, but this can be fiddly and you can inadvertently open the game instead of highlighting the shortcut text if your hand is shaky that day).

Great. Thanks!