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Has anyone tried to mark a game private in Steam? Does it work as intended? (programming.dev)
submitted 8 months ago by lowleveldata@programming.dev to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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[โ€“] savvywolf@pawb.social 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure to the extent in which they are private, but in my testing they DON'T appear in the following places:

  • The "Steam Replay" thing.
  • Whatever ProtonDB uses to query your owned games.
  • Your recent activity (it also doesn't also doesn't count your playtime when displaying the "total time play time" in the last 2 weeks).

Not sure if they are hidden in your owned games list on your profile, but I assume they would be.

Note that the count of games you own (which is public) does seem to include hidden games, if that's a concern.

[โ€“] bl4kers@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

Whatever ProtonDB uses to query your owned games.

I tried this and it properly hid my game, both logged into ProtonDB as well as logged out. Also showed back up when I unmarked it as private.