You can specifically protect games in your Steam library from others’ eyes.
The beta version of Steam now officially offers a new privacy setting. The feature allows you to hide individual games from other users – the reasons for this are of course entirely up to you.
Nobody has to know what you’re playing
The new option lets you hide a single game from all others. The previous options only let you set the entire library to “private”.
What exactly happens to a game when I use this setting? Basically, from the outside it looks like you just don’t own the game.
The selected title will not appear in the friends list when you play it. Your profile does not show any playing time or achievements achieved. In addition, friends on the shop page cannot see that you already have the game.
The only catch: You cannot receive trading cards for a title that you have marked as private.
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Only available in Steam beta
Note that this new feature initially only in the beta version can be used by Steam. To activate the beta client, go to Steam settings.
There you select the tab “User Interface” and set the selection under the third point “Client Beta Participation” to “Steam Beta Update”. Then reboot, followed by an update.
How to set games to “private”
There are several ways to apply the new feature. That’s how you can directly upon purchase of a new game decide whether it will be hidden directly from other users.
Of course, you can also change the public visibility later. To do this, right-click on the game in your Steam library and go to the new menu item “Privacy” and “Properties”.
Or you can set the title to “private” directly via “Manage” after right-clicking. You can do the whole thing again official FAQ (English) from Steam.
Whether it’s the puzzle games that are not entirely suitable for young people, the collection of visual novels or your five-figure playing time in Counter-Strike: Nobody has to find out. Is this selective privacy a feature that makes sense to you? Are there any games in your Steam library that you want to hide? Feel free to write your opinion in the comments.
