Game sharing features have been available on Steam for quite some time now, but they’ve now leveled up. Valve has announced that the Steam Families feature has now gone live, replacing both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View as single, unified feature where Steam users can “manage which games your family can access and when they can play.”
A Steam Family will allow up to five users to play sharable games from each other’s libraries. Players will be able to access the games in another member’s library even if they are online, though multiple people will be able to play a single game simultaneously only if your family library has multiple copies of the game.
Developers can opt out of having Steam Families enabled in their games, so don’t expect it to be available for every single game on the platform. Meanwhile, as you would expect, the feature will also come with its suite of parental control options, allowing access to games, restricting access to the store, setting playtime limits, and more.
Check out the trailer below or head on over here for more details.
