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When you buy multiple games in one purchase from Steam, you have the option to set them all to be installed, and the Steam client automatically queues them all at once.

However, Is there a way to do this manually? For example when you've just re-installed Steam, can you select your 30 favorite games, and click "Install" once? Installing each game individually can get really tedious.

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...it doesn't chain downloads. – badp♦ Jan 10 '12 at 18:21
Not quite... That one is about downloading multiple games at once, not setting up a queue of stuff to download over time. Similar, but not the same. – Xkeeper Jan 10 '12 at 18:49
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possible duplicate of Can I bulk download Steam games? – Dave DuPlantis Jan 10 '12 at 20:04
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Or this one gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/44567/… – Adanion Jan 10 '12 at 21:10

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You should be able to just start installing them as normal, and the Steam client will download them automatically afterwards. Have you checked the Downloads portion of the client? If your downloads are pausing when you choose to install another game, just hit Resume All.

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Note that you can still play games while Steam is downloading, but it will pause downloads; just alt-tab out of your game and hit Resume All twice (once to pause, once to unpause) and it should resume downloading. – Xkeeper Jan 10 '12 at 18:50
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this behaviour isn't consistent. Sometimes it does that, and sometimes it doesn't. – GnomeSlice Jan 10 '12 at 23:01
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This can't really be the accepted answer, right? You still have to click-click-clickity-click every game separately after reinstalling Steam. The question is, can you queue a bunch of them in one action? – Redsandro Jan 31 at 17:52
If you'd prefer, you can download the Steam app on your iPhone and tap-tap-tappity-tap instead. – Xkeeper Feb 8 at 17:43

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