Steam :: Steam News :: Introducing Steam Families
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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. 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.

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
  • RetrogradeEnglish
    120·
    7 months ago

    TIL to make my future children their own steam accounts

    • JojoEnglish
      50·
      7 months ago

      And buy them their own copies of online games.

      • RetrogradeEnglish
        100·
        7 months ago

        Instead of the sax talk, I’m going to sit them down to chat about how cheating in video games is bad m’kay

        • JojoEnglish
          70·
          7 months ago

          Parents, talk to your kids about saxophones. That, and cheating on video games, are the most important subjects to cover.

        • JojoEnglish
          10·
          7 months ago7 months ago

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