Steam reportedly adding way to hide games from other users ValveA dataminer and founder of SteamDB says Valve plans to give Steam users the option to mark games as private, hiding them from other users on the platform. Steam may be getting a long-requested privacy feature soon. According to dataminer and SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik, Valve appears to be planning to implement a new option that would give users even more control over what games their friends can see. This would allow users to hide specific games from others on the platform. The feature is, to many, long overdue, and it seems Steam users know exactly how they plan to use it. \u201cMark as Private\u201d would allow Steam users to hide selected games from friends Steam\u2019s privacy options have historically been pretty limited. You do have the option to set your account or certain features to either Public, Friends only, or Private, but this impacts all games in your library. While there is a \u201cHide\u201d option, that\u2019s specifically for clearing games from your own library, not hiding them from others. As Djundik has found, that may change soon with a planned \u201cMark as Private\u201d option. This would allow you to hide specific games from prying eyes while still enjoying them privately. Of course, some Steam users know exactly what kinds of games they\u2019ll be using this for. Many comments on Djundik\u2019s tweet come from those who have been deterred from adult anime games and other potentially embarrassing content by the fact that their friends can see what\u2019s in their library, even if they never actually open it. Those who may feel sensitive about their, say, Counter-Strike 2 or Destiny 2 playtime will also be able to use the feature to hide just how many hours they\u2019ve spent in those games. Mark as Private could also help developers, particularly indie devs. \u201ci can finally playtest Project Wingman 3 without leaking it,\u201d joked Project Wingman writer and producer Matthew Nguyen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Steam reportedly adding way to hide games from other users ValveA dataminer and founder of SteamDB says Valve plans to give Steam users the option to mark games as private, hiding them from other users on the platform. Steam may be getting a long-requested privacy feature soon. According to dataminer and SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}