Can't play Game-Labs offline from Steam after a period - this is Game-Labs specific

[skg02]

Had this happen with UA:Age of Sail and got no help on that board. Now I'm having the same problem with UA:Dreadnaughts.

 

All my other steam games launch fine off-line. 

 

Game-Labs won't launch and crash to desktop.

 

This is not a needs an update issue either - set them all to restricted time window for downloads, no background downloads.

 

I have another game that has a lot of mods that I don't want to connect with Steam because of - the workshop mods update independent of game update and not Steam setting rules.

 

Shouldn't have to worry about this with Game-Labs products, what's going on.