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Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/11954402

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same thoughts. Mainly because it's such a pain to explain how the library access system works in the previous family share.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Now just need to be able to 'hide' some games from sharing and we are good to go!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you can set games as private now, but it sure took them some time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gonna be complicated to explain to my brother why he has to be a child account lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Just let him see your hentai games, say they're "jokes" or something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yes I have 2500+ hours of playtime for Femboy Adventures: The Catboi Chronicles, but that's just a joke, bro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Virgin embarrassed H-game enthusiast:

"Haha they're just jokes bro"

Chad owns-up-to-it H-game enjoyer:

"Yes, I do have 137 hentai games, what about it?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The Q.A. page specifies that you can specify what games are shared or shown using the normal means.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Looks like this might only be possible by setting the other accounts to being child accounts.