sorta odd question but wondering if its possible.
if i pirated a game i owned on steam, ideally the same version ripped from steam that it would be trying to install anyway, put that into the correct steamapps/common folder. would steam detect it as the game i own installed?
maybe at that point at least i could verify game files?

i have a game i own on steam that simply will not download. ive tried everything and im not here to troubleshoot that anymore.