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Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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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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[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I set family sharing up a while ago. It's been great. Only issue is I made my own account a child account and don't mnow how to undo that. Not a huge deal since I know the pin, just sucks to have to put it in to look at the store or appear online to play with friends. Probably not a steam problem, just user error, and if I put enough effort into fixing it as I did writing this comment I probably would have already fixed it. The answer just doesn't seem apparent...

[–] growsomethinggood@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would say the answer is typically a-parent haha

Not very helpful but I hope a dumb joke makes you smile!

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I.... honestly did not intend to make that pun. Your dumb joke very much made me smile. Thank you.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

It's definitely possible, I recently turned off child mode for my kid now that he's older. Unfortunately I don't remember the process well enough to accurately tell you what to do.