Steam is working on allowing you to mark a game as private and hide it from your friends (both you and Valve knows why)

I look forward to browsing by "games most often marked private".

The more control over your privacy the better.

I was once (long ago) sick on Monday and my employer called me and told me that I should be able to come to work when I was able to play World of Warcraft on Sunday, because he looked my character up in the armory and saw me getting a boss kill or something.

I was sick, because I had my wisdom teeth removed on Monday morning....

People can get in all kinds of trouble because of their gaming habits. A game critical of religion or religious, a game about sexuality and/or gender, a political game about dictatorship or capitalism or unionizing. A historical game about something your country doesn't want you to know or a game that mentions Tian'anmen and Winnie-Puh. A game from a Russian developer that fled Russia when the war against Ukraine started and you are a gamer in Russia who wants to play it.

Good if Steam allows more control over our privacy, it took them long enough.

I'm genuinely surprised this wasn't a thing already. I've never looked for such a thing though because i have no friends to hide from.

So they can't see my 1.5 million hours on factorio?

I on the other hand, make full use of the share widgets on porn sites. Goddammit you'll know when I bust.

I actually wait until most of my friends are online to start playing Orc Massage. Why would I hide that?

I am proud of my achievements in Genital Jousting

This will make me more likely to buy certain games, absolutely. And it's really not that I feel ashamed or whatever about them, but more like, I know some people are judgey, and I'd rather not have them in the know lmao. Also work/professional stuff.

This will significantly boost my collection of hentai games

Fuck yeah, now I can enjoy Sex with Hitler 2 in peace

(For the love of God please know this is a joke)

I've had my whole profile on private for years, lmao.

The surfeit of waifu and other porn and porn-like games is surprising when you start digging through what’s on sale.

Anybody ever bought one of these and care to share what the attraction is?

Now my friends won't know I played ahead of the party in Baldurs Gate so I am get loot faster.

Took them long enough.

This would have been nice to know before I made my burner profile. lol

It's too late for me. They already know.

This would have saved me a lot of drama back when Hogwarts Legacy came out

Finally, I had to just nuke all my share status features lol.

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But my friends only message me when I'm in the middle of a boss fight in Nekopara.

This is a great feature I wish we had earlier.

Wouldn't mind having it hidden in my own library. Plenty of games I'd rather not know existed. (Not counting removing then from my library, I bought them, maybe someone will want to play them some day)

come on man, just let me wank to VR porn in peace

Now I can finally hide all of those hours I spent playing Farming Simulator! Every 100 hours crossed just makes the guilty pleasure feel more guilty when I admit it.

I just have a second username with no friends on it for my Being a DIK type games.

I can't think of a reason why I would want to hide a game. What am I missing?

Now if they could also let me use my own api key to access my own profile without having to make it public. Or maybe just a sane Openid Connect implementation that actually does anything.