Steam is a popular platform for gamers to buy, download, and play games. However, some people may not want their games to be publicly visible on the platform. There are a few ways to hide your games from public view on Steam. The first way to hide your games is to set up a private account. This will make your games private and only accessible by you and the people you invite onto your private account. To set up a private account, go to steam://accounts/create and enter the details of your new account. You will need a valid email address and a password to create an account. The second way to hide your games from public view on Steam is to set up a public profile for your game. This will make your game publicly visible on Steam but only people who have been invited onto your public profile can see it. To set up a public profile for your game, go to steam://profiles/create and enter the details of your new profile. You will need a valid email address and a password to create an account. The third way to hide your games from public view on Steam is to use steampublicaccesscontrols . This tool allows you control who can see which of your games are publicly available on Steam. To use steampublicaccesscontrols, go to steam://settings/publicaccesscontrols . You will need an administrator level access token in order to use this tool. Once you have obtained an administrator level access token, go back into steam://settings/publicaccesscontrols and click the Add Game button next to the game that you want to control access for. In the Add Game dialog box, enter the details of the game that you want control access for (name, description, publisher) and click OK . Then click Apply Changes at the bottom of the dialog box and close it out again by clicking OK . Your game now has restricted access so only people who have been invited onto your public ..
Hide Played Games From Your Steam Profile
Your Steam profile page normally lists all the games you’ve been playing and shows how many hours you’ve spent in all of them, focusing on what you’ve been playing in the last two weeks.
Steam profiles used to be public by default, but Valve made them private by default. Still, you may have made it public to work with a third-party service that reads information from your Steam profile, like IsThereAnyDeal, which scans your wishlist for games and lets you know if they’re for sale on other game stores.
To access your profile in Steam, hover over your username on the top bar and click “Profile.”
Click the “Edit Profile” button at the right side of the page to edit your profile.
Click “Privacy Settings” at the left side of your page to find Steam’s profile privacy options.
Adjust the privacy settings here to control what people can see. To hide gameplay, you have two options.
To hide gameplay information, set “Game details” to “Private.” Not even your friends will be able to see the games you’re playing, the games you own, or the games you’ve wishlisted. They can still see your friends list, inventory, comments, and other information, depending on the options you have selected on this page.
You could also just hide everything by setting the “My Profile” option to Private. If you do, no one can see your entire profile page. You can also select “Friends Only,” and only your Steam friends will be able to see your profile.
Hide Gameplay Activity From Steam Chat
If you’re only kind-of embarrassed about the game you’re currently playing—maybe you don’t care if it’s listed on your profile page but you don’t want all your friends getting a notification that you’ve started playing the game or see that you’re playing it on their friends list—you can go offline or become invisible on Steam chat.
To do so, click the “Friends” button near the top left of the Steam window and select “Offline” or “Invisible.”
Alternatively, you can click “Friends & Chat” in the bottom right-hand corner to bring up the Steam Chat window.
Then click the small chevron (like an arrow, without the tail) next to your username. Select “Invisible” or “Offline” from the drop down menu.
Hide or Remove Games From Your Steam Library
If you’d like to hide a game from the Steam library on your PC, you can set it to “Hidden” or remove it from your Steam library.
Right-click the game, mouse over “Manage,” and then click “Hide this game.”
People with access to game details on your profile will still be able to see any achievements and playtime you have in that game. However, anyone with access to your PC won’t see the game in your normal Steam library.
With Steam now offering adult-only games and other not-safe-for-work (NSFW) material, the ability to hide games you’re playing only becomes more important. But it’s useful even if you’ve been playing other games, like Bad Rats, that you don’t want anyone else knowing about.
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