Spacewar: The Steam Game That Doesn't Exist

Ok I've been getting alot of concerned comments, so let's make some things clear:
First and foremost, having spacewar in your steam library, no matter the purpose, is NOT DANGEROUS and will do nothing to harm you (however some cracked games may contain malware, but that's not related to spacewar)
Second, there are also other purposes or reasons to have spacewar installed as it's used in some game mods or even whole indie games to enable online play

The bottom line is: No, this won't hack you. No, it won't steal your info. No, it won't harm your system. It's just a game that happened to be used to allow online play on pirated games.
I thought I made that clear in the video, but some people were still confused so I thought I'd write this to answer anyone questioning these points :)

I played a mod for a game that I did purchase it said it was space war

I don't think I've ever played a pirated game this way

I modified My Furry Protogen 🐾 to look like im playing spacewar so my friends wouldn't see what im actually playing...

Where is the fucking gameplay ya tool belt

0 gameplay footage. Thumbs down.

So this doesn’t crack the drm?

Dude your editing reminds me of The Squidd

I noticed this shit after playing Cod waw, shit kinda scared me.

for some reason i have it

Some people use it for piracy, some use it for server connections, but me, I use it to unlock rare achievements to satisfy my completionist instinct.

great video

how can i get rid of it? i dont want my account banned

spacewar is my favourite game have 100 hours in it hehe

So it is completely 100 % harmless right? i got it because i played a fan game of FNAF on gamejolt that needed steam for online, if you tell me that it can't do nothing then i'm calm.
from what i've seen it is used by lots of indie game developers and modders.

Literally freaked when I seen this on my steam account but then I remembered I played IW4x, a multiplayer client for MW2 which appears to be communicating through steam's sdk. So it's not 100% just piracy related it seems to be anything that communicates through a server connection. I went ahead and deleted it from my steam and it is gone. Kind of worried that steam will somehow ban me for this but I have never not once pirated a game onto my steam account. If I did I wouldn't of freaked out when I saw this damn application and the weird russian workshop message. I haven't seen a post or anything that steam did ban someone for it though.

Edit: I own MW2 classic on steam, somehow me using the dedicated server for mw3 for pluto doesn't trigger this, lmao.

So isnt banneable right?

i searched this vid up cause i was confused why i owned a game called spacewar and why it said i played it for 47 min

But my firend got online and started to play spacewar and he was completely offline and my friend was scared

Just finished testing my Steam game for release, and after my session, turned out I had played Spacewar for 5 mins. When I clicked, the game just disappeared and brought me back to the Steam homepage. Really weird. This video cleared things up, thanks!

Went from being confused why I had a program on my steam named spacewar, to watching a fantastic video about it. Bravo dude.

It also has a crude but good A.I. like computer opponents, that piss me off, on their skills and faking me out.
That's why I play it.
P.S. The game play video in this video, I don't think is the original at all, and may not have the opponents with, piss off skills.

Has anyone played with a friend on the actual game? I wanna know how the multiplayer works

I just got the game and wanted to see why the music was not working. I just wanted to play a cool space game.

Steam riconosce alcuni giochi crackati come Spacewar, quindi quando vedi un amico online che gioca a spacewar in realtà sta giocando a un gioco non originale con fix online che utilizza questo metodo per accedere a steam. sul mio stesso profilo conta ore di gioco su spacewar ma in realtà si riferisce a un gioco non originale che sto utilizzando

ty i got scared so bad that i got hacked

my friend play spacewar now...

pretty good one. thanks

It just popped up in my steam library while downloading cyberpunk. It’s all in Russian; the comments. Could it be plutonium 🤔

I want to remove this spacewar pls can u tell me how to do it

Just wanna say that this is also usually used for mods, games that have mods available will sometimes use Spacewar.

Its a fun game tho

Intro song?

space wars was a real 2D space game. I dont know why Steam deleted it lol.

the reason i heard abt space war cuz lots of people were inviting me to play it

sometimes i play pirted steam games cuz i have no 💰💰💰

this is the first time i see spacewar, because we wanted to play the new forest game with friends for free, and when we opened the game we encountered spacewar, i know you told us to be totally okay with it but i can't find any proven sources to be sure because people faced VAC ban, so i don't feel well... can you relax me a bit privately :3 i mean is there any chance to get banned from my account ?

I remember noticing this game in my library when i played initial d arcade stage 8 on teknoparrot, i think the emulator uses it for net play.

I was just looking at steam when space war was a thing and apparently I have 2 hours of play time but I never downloaded it

I was modding half life alyx so and I saw this

Spacewar is amazing for playing cracked games online, honestly a life saver if your low on funds and don't wanna commit to a full game purchase or cd key

it showed up when i was playing the stick of truth beta build

I was playing ets2 with some bus mod that required a custom version of the game and i saw spacewar i got so scared 😭😭 thanks for this video

I just looked up this video because the game appeared in my library

I played this game, then I deleted it. Will it do anything to my computer? Since I am Turkish, my English is not good, so I wrote it as a translate, will it harm my computer?

sigh, everytime Stardew Valley multiplayer crashes its says Im playing Spacewar. At least its not stealing my stuff

i suddenly got 62hours on spacewar, never played nor heard of it.

I have 500 hours on spacewars

I recently downloaded a cracked version of terraria which for some reason required me to open using steam but this crack opened a game called spacewar somehow
Thank god now i know what it is

I use Spacewar for modding a VR game