Steam News - Steam Families is here - Steam News
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Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families is now available for all users. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when they can play. Create a Steam Family To get started, you can create a Steam Family and then invite up to 5 family members.

This was previously available as a opt in beta, but is now available for everyone.

  • TachyonTele
    1·
    6 days ago

    You own the games on steam too. It’s the same thing, steam just has a front end with graphics.

    • penquin
      2·
      6 days ago

      Like I can take the .exe and install it on any other computer own them?

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        No, many steam games use steam to verify if you own the game. It’s up to developers if they require their game to have steam drm or not.

        If the game doesn’t have Steam DRM, you can just copy the game folder and run it anywhere. But many games will require steam (with an account that owns the game) to be running before they’ll open.

        • penquin
          1·
          5 days ago

          See, that’s what I thought, because I have tried to put a game once on another PC and it didn’t work. So, it makes sense now, it depends on the devs. This is why I like gog. You just have the .exe and you can install it anywhere you want

      • TachyonTele
        11·
        6 days ago

        Yup. They’re just files. You’ll want to move the entire game folder for steam, the install file doesn’t come with the games.

        • penquin
          3·
          5 days ago

          I see, it makes sense as the game would have a bunch of dependencies that are all over that folder. Thank you, I didn’t know that.