Steam :: Steam News :: Introducing Steam Families
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UPDATE: Steam Families launched out of beta on September 11th, and is now available to all Steam users. Read our newer post detailing Steam Families here! Everything below is from the original post from March 18th, 2024: 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.

Valve announced a replacement feature for both Family Sharing and Family View. Currently in beta.

Features:

  • up to 5 members
  • game sharing
  • parental controls
    • 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
  • child purchase requests
  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 years ago

    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.

    Well this is exceptionally exciting. This potentially solves 100% of my complaints with Family Sharing as it exists currently.