Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families, available today in the Steam Beta Client. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when they can play. Create a Steam Family To get started, you can create a Steam Family and then invite up to 5 family members.
When you join a Steam Family, you automatically gain access to the shareable games that your family members own and they will also be able to access the shareable titles in your library. The next time you log in to Steam, this new ‘family library’ will appear in the left column as a subsection of your games list. You maintain ownership of your current titles and when you purchase a new game it will still show up in your collection.
Best of all, when you are playing a game from your family library, you will create your own saved games, earn your own Steam achievements, have access to workshop files and more.
Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members’ libraries, even if they are online playing another game. If your family library has multiple copies of a game, multiple members of the family can play that game at the same time. For a more detailed look at how Family Sharing works, see the FAQ below.
Also adds parental controls for children’s accounts. Parental controls let you:
Allow access to appropriate games
Restrict access to the Steam Store, Community or Friends Chat
Set playtime limits (hourly/daily)
View playtime reports
Approve or deny requests from child accounts for additional playtime or feature access (temporary or permanent)
Recover a child’s account if they lost their password
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It’s not clear if that hides games from being shared. The info page explicitly states that ALL eligible games are shared.
To get control of what an account can and cannot see/play, the account has to be configured as a child.
The Q.A. page specifies that you can specify what games are shared or shown using the normal means.
Gonna be complicated to explain to my brother why he has to be a child account lol
Just let him see your hentai games, say they’re “jokes” or something.
Virgin embarrassed H-game enthusiast:
Chad owns-up-to-it H-game enjoyer:
Yes I have 2500+ hours of playtime for Femboy Adventures: The Catboi Chronicles, but that’s just a joke, bro
I marked some games as private and they indeed do NOT show up on the other families users library. Seems to work like a charm!