How To Hide Games On Steam From Your Friends In 6 Simple Steps

Steam has proved to be the best friend of gamers and game developers. The platform allows you to communicate and stream online games with other gamers all around the globe. But, if you feel that you need to play alone sometimes then here is an article that will tell you how to hide games on steam from your friends.

Those who have used the steam app know that by default it notifies you of all your activities such as when you are online and what you are playing to your friends. If you want some privacy or do not want your friends to know what games you have. Then, this article will tell you how to hide games on steam using various steam features.

Well, there are many possible ways to hide games on steam. Some of them are by hiding them in the Steam Library, Changing the Games Details Privacy, and Changing the entire Profile Privacy.

Next, in the article, you will be reading the step-by-step guide on how to hide steam games and how to unhide them. 

How To Hide Games On Steam

There are many ways that will help you in hiding the games on steam. We will discuss all of them one by one. But, before starting the discussion let us have a quick look at What are Steam Games and Why you need to hide games on steam from your friends or siblings

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Steam Games – An Introduction

Steam is defined as an online game streaming platform. It is a platform developed especially for gamers by a company called Valve. Steam allows you to buy, create and play video games on its platform. Not only you can play games on steam but also you can talk and chat with the other gamers. In a nutshell, steam is a digital gamer’s world.

If you talk about the available opportunities on steam then let us start with the game streaming. You can buy any game online and then stream it with your friends. It serves as the best platform for game developers. If you have some talent with coding then you use the platform to develop and host your own game.

Why To Hide Games On Steam

What if your friends have access to your steam account and you don’t want them to play your favorite game? Or what if your younger sibling is using your laptop for studying and you don’t want them to play games. What can be done in such cases? Can we hide games on steam? 

Yes, the steam platform provides us many ways in which we can hide and unhide the games on our steam account. We have mentioned all of these features below.

How To Hide Games On Steam

Let us start with one of the oldest ways to hide the games on the Steam Platform. This feature allows you to directly hide the game from the games library and even if your friend searches in the search box. He won’t find it.

Given below are steps on how to hide games on steam from the games library.

1. Go to the steam application and navigate to the game library.
2. In the game library, select the game you wish to hide.
3. The game homepage will appear in front of you. Now, on the right-hand side look for the setting’s icon that is the gear button. Click on it.
4. Now, a drop-down menu will appear in front of you. Select the Manage option.
5. And then the “Hide The Game” option.
6. Your game is hidden and you can no longer see it in your collections.

Note: As we said it is one of the oldest methods. So, there is a chance that you find it difficult. So, try out the other methods given below.

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How To Hide Games On Steam From Friends In The Steam Library

Well, if you find the method above difficult. Then try out this one. This method will directly allow you to hide your steam games in the Steam Library.

1. Log in to your steam profile.
2. Navigate to the game in the games library that you wish to hide.
3. Right-click on the game and select the option “Set Categories”.
4. Now, in the dialog box that appears, look for the “Hide This Game In My Library” option and check the check-box against it.
5. Click on OK to confirm.
6. Your steam game is hidden in your Steam library.

How To Unhide Games In The Steam Library

Now to unhide the steam games in the Steam library follow the steps given below.

1. Log in to your steam profile.
2. Navigate to the Library Search box and click on the category box.
3. Now select the “Hidden” option.
4. Now, select the game that you wish to unhide and select the option “Remove From Hidden”.
5. You have Unhidden your Steam Game.

How To Hide Games From Friends On Steam Using Privacy Settings

In the recent update by steam. It has made it possible that you can hide your activity status from your friends until you wish them to know about it. All you have to do is change your privacy settings and to do so follow the steps given below.

1. Login to your profile on steam.
2. Navigate to the profile, click on it and then click on  “Edit Profile”.
3. On the new screen, look at the left side pane and click on the “Privacy Settings”.
4. Now, look for the “Game Details” Option, and from the drop-down menu select “Private”.
5. Save the settings once you are done.

Note: You can change your privacy settings any time you wish, using the same steps.

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How To Hide Games On Steam From Friends By Setting Your Entire Profile To Private

Well, this is another way. Although it is the same as the one mentioned above. But, this will make your entire profile go private including your games. So, you can hide games on steam from friends using this method as well.

1. Login to your profile on steam.
2. Navigate to the profile, click on it and then click on “Edit Profile”.
3. On the new screen, look at the left side pane and click on the “Privacy Settings”.
4. Now, look for the “My Profile” Option, and from the drop-down menu select “Private”.
5. Save the settings once you are done.

Note: You can change your privacy settings any time you wish, using the same steps.

How To Hide Games On Steam Using Steam Chat

This method is different from the ones mentioned above. This will not hide the steam games on your profile instead it will not let your friends know that you have started playing games.

In simpler words, this method will not hide steam games from your profile. But, it will not let your friends know that you are playing the game.

Follow the steps given below on How to play games on steam without getting noticed by your friends.

1. Login to your profile on steam.
2. Click on the “Chat” option on the top bar.
3. Now, on the next screen click on the drop-down symbol against your profile name.
4. Now, click on the “Invisible” option.
5. That’s it. It’s done.

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Conclusion

Well, that was all about how to hide games on steam from friends or siblings. Whatever may be the reason, we have provided you with all the possible ways for the purpose. If you still have any doubt in mind then don’t hesitate to ask us in the comments section. We are happy to help.

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