Out of habit I play games, but it's something that I'd like to change without deleting all of the games I have. So I was wondering if it's possible to prevent steam from starting in the same way there are apps that block you from accessing the internet.
MacOS – Prevent a program (steam) to start for a time period
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Best Answer
How do you launch Steam? I think you could create some kind of scheduled task in Automator/cron that either moves Steam.app to another location (preventing your Dock icon from working) or, if you use Spotlight, somehow breaking the application bundle.
For example, you could disable with:
And re-enable with:
Kludgy but effective.