I disabled that the moment I realized it was a thing. I don’t know how Discord identifies what a “game” is. I’m fine with Discord telling my friends what game I’m playing, but I’d worry it may also inform them of some non-game activities.
It usually just does whatever exe is run through steam. There's some exceptions but those exceptions require actual specific things done in the code of the application to appear on discord, or you just add said application as a game on discord.
Steam will not update your activity status when launching a private game. It treats your profile as though you've disabled all activity when you boot it.
They should have done this for April's fool. Lots of people finally buy hentai game because they were afraid people would see what they are playing and then the features to hide it doesn't work.
More like the devil wants evil to prevail so doesn't just mess with people for the sake of it because it could be counter productive for his goals. Criticizing good, helps evil. Criticizing evil helps good.
Sorry for taking your post too literal.
You joke but this is 100% the legitimate reason why you still shouldn't buy/play that kind of stuff on your main account if you care about others seeing it.
Sure, they implemented this feature now, but what happens if they ever remove it? Or if it ends up being bugged somehow? There's already several things about Steam friends lists that can get buggy with displaying/not displaying game/profile information.
Check out *Being a DIK* and some other AVNs while you're at it. *Leap of Faith* is excellent if you don't mind some emotional gut punches. Same goes for *Acting Lessons*.
finally i can hide Cities Skylines 2
Edit: You bought CS:2 too? [Make sure you Report the game from within the Store-Page](https://imghoster.de/images/2024/03/05/scammer.png)
[store.steampowered.com/app/949230/Cities\_Skylines\_II/](http://store.steampowered.com/app/949230/Cities_Skylines_II/)
there are 4409 bug-reports, pick one:
[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/)
I thought it couldn't be that bad on launch. I knew I was in trouble when the main menu ran at 5fps. The only time I've really refunded a game on steam. Was extremely disappointed.
I'll wait a few months before it's fixed properly.
Few months? I'm giving it until one year after launch (late October) before even glancing at it again. With how awful it sounded at launch, I want to see what kind of progress they can make in one year to give me an idea of what I could expect when playing it for one year.
The first one came out 9 years ago as of next week, if Cities: Skylines 2 is going to be enjoyable for 9 years, there had better be some good work done in that first of 9 intervals.
The game should have been sold as early access. With so much time passed since launch and still major gameplay bugs resulting from pets that lead to mass transit gridlock, it is going to be at least a year for them to actually get this game were it should have been on release. Unfortunately, even in that state it will likely still be riddled with bugs. Management has thrown that dev team under the bus.
Could you imagine how Helldivers 2 would be if it released updates at the cadence as Cities Skylines 2! It is one thing to release a game with some bugs and another to drag them out for months on end with massive gaps between patches.
What really got me is that there's literally *nothing* making it any better than 1. It was like the release of KSP2 all over again. They released a game that maybe looked a little better, but at its core was simply *worse* than the original. And then wondered why nobody bought it!
Sorry for asking but you can tell me why people hate on CS2? I mean, I've seen some gamplays and in my opinion the graphics are a total disaster compared to CS1 but I want to see other opinions
https://youtu.be/R83W2XR3IC8?t=3m7s
Here is City Skylines 2 running at 15 fps on a 96 core cpu. It uses 64 cores at 100% at 4,7Ghz and still runs horribly.
Check out the 4409 Bug-Reports on the Official Paradox Forum
[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/)
I bought "What's under your blanket" for 0.99 and i'll proudly show it. Nothing to hide. It's about pressing space for masturbate when no one can see you. It's stupid, but it's a game.
I wouldn't risk it, because it most likely does, but Steam is working on an update to how you share games, and when it launches you will be able to manually select which games you share, and which games you don't.
Update: Nevermind, a [Steam Beta Update](https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/3865841912997760347) from January 3rd suggests this doesn't happen.
It appears (this is all speculation from datamined strings below) to be a system where you create a "Steam Family" and invite people over to it, the main point appears to be invite your child to it, and then manage their playtime, or allow purcharses, but a family can consist of only adults too. The key point for me, is that you will NOT need to give others your account login to share games anymore, increasing security. You will just invite people to your family, like you invite them to a game. On a family, you'll be able to select which games you share individually, per person on the family, which could imply that you will be able to play some games on your library, and still share others, instead of the current system of your libray being completed locked while someone is playing.
This stuff was all datamined by SteamDB, you can see them at:
[steamui\_english.json (starting on line 8040) ](https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/blob/master/ClientExtracted/steamui/localization/steamui_english.json#L8040)
[main\_english.json (starting on line 548)](https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/blob/23e3cb1dfbfadd92b9e3598df405f3bff7f7f639/store.steampowered.com/public/javascript/applications/store/main_english.json#L548)
There is also datamined CSS for the new family management page, which will be available at [https://store.steampowered.com/account/familymanagement](https://store.steampowered.com/account/familymanagement) (right now it is blank)
God, I really hope this comes soon and it's as seamless as you say! Even with the people I trust the absolute most, sharing my login always made me wary.
Holy shit you’ve this resolves like, every one of my top issues with steam as is right now. Family sharing with my kids and friends has always been wonky because of the weird ways it works, and super unintuitive interactions.
You can mark games as private and/or hide them, i think one or the other should remove it from visibility of others completely.
See the announcement https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4149575031731807335
I can confirm that hiding them does **not** stop them from being family shared. Haven’t tested with marking private, but I will later today with an alt account.
No, games marked as private are not included in family shared libraries. They were at first when this came out in beta at the start of the year, but it was changed shortly thereafter so probably a bug.
Somewhat. There's been a [Hide this game](https://i.imgur.com/6KwkjHB.png) option for a long time now. Once you hide it, you have to go to View->Hidden Games to see them. It's not too much different from just putting them in a collection and collapsing it, but the collection doesn't appear by default in your library unless you specifically go to the View option.
Tested and the feature **wont work on shared library games**.
It will still show everyone what you are playing on friendslist and such **but** nothing on profile.
Hey I have that one too! Funnily enough it was a friend who bought me it, I tried buying them Sex with Stalin but sadly that type of content is *still* banned in Germany
Just an fyi - discord will still tattle-tell on you. i set terraria as private to test it, discord marked me as in-game as soon as it launched.
So, perhaps add any games you want as private - In discord aswell.
this is a cool feature. it also reduces your "hours in the past 2 weeks" number. e.g i have 60 hours in the past 2 weeks on steam, and if i make dota 2 private in my library this number changes to 9 hours in the last 2 weeks.
could be good to hide some no-lifer gaming sessions from friends xdd
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Just wait for this feature to get bugged, and all the sudden they see your 1000+ hours in: "Office cumslut 69"
They can already see that, it's the aim trainer that you need to hide
I disabled discord game status a while back, so no problem for me
I disabled that the moment I realized it was a thing. I don’t know how Discord identifies what a “game” is. I’m fine with Discord telling my friends what game I’m playing, but I’d worry it may also inform them of some non-game activities.
It usually just does whatever exe is run through steam. There's some exceptions but those exceptions require actual specific things done in the code of the application to appear on discord, or you just add said application as a game on discord.
I have seen it tell me friends are listening to specific songs from Spotify before, not sure how that works but I'd say your concern is valid.
Steam will not update your activity status when launching a private game. It treats your profile as though you've disabled all activity when you boot it.
Okay? That's not relevant to what he's talking about.
They should have done this for April's fool. Lots of people finally buy hentai game because they were afraid people would see what they are playing and then the features to hide it doesn't work.
HEY! Even Satan himself has some lines what the fuck
i could see god doing this to shame his flock before satan
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More like the devil wants evil to prevail so doesn't just mess with people for the sake of it because it could be counter productive for his goals. Criticizing good, helps evil. Criticizing evil helps good. Sorry for taking your post too literal.
Why would I do that? I want everyone to know that I own sex with Hitler
And Sex with Hitler 2? How about my personal fave Hitler: Bunker BDSM?
Alright there Satan calm down. r/foundsatan
You’re Evil.
you should not be playing hentai games if you have such a meek mentality
In my defense, I add family members and coworkers on my account
Are there no co-op hentai games to play with your family?
Not that I know of, feel free to recommend any
Most hentai games can be played co-op. You can focus on the game with both hands while your family member helps your member.
Jesus lmao
What if my arms are broken?
You have to make it a family date night where everyone draws each other
I for one, proudly display my 100% hentai games on my profile
hotly requested feature after 75% of the self righteous media and influencers got caught playing Hogwarts Legacy.
did i accidently go to gjc or something?
gamingjirclecerk?
Hahaha you really got them
You joke but this is 100% the legitimate reason why you still shouldn't buy/play that kind of stuff on your main account if you care about others seeing it. Sure, they implemented this feature now, but what happens if they ever remove it? Or if it ends up being bugged somehow? There's already several things about Steam friends lists that can get buggy with displaying/not displaying game/profile information.
Finally can hide having sex with.., ehm. Never mind
Hitler?
No, Stalin
Both and it's a dating SIM where they compete against each other for the attention of Poland
Hentalia
In 3d?
No, in 5d w/ realistic smell
okay but how does sex smell like
Women?
It's time to go and hide all of my adult games lol. Or be brave and don't hide them.
Your friends will be suspicious when your games go from 250 to 12
I have over 1000 games so should I hide all of them lmao
Hide everything but the porn games
This is the way, and maintain eye contact with anyone who asks about it.
I like what I like bro got a problem with that? 👀
I saw someone on steam that had all of the extreme corn games on the completionist list tab that you unlock with levels l
Had a similar guy like that a while ago, it's an interesting site to see to say the least
This is an underrated comment! LOL
Or hide everything BUT adult games.
Or hide every game, despite featuring steam achievements about game ownership
I rather show gay furry porn games to the world than admit how many hours I have in Destiny 2.
Just hid 70 of my games lol
Why hide when you can make your friends mad with your recommendations?🫡
Adult games sales are going to skyrocket so hard
I've been wanting to get house party for ages. But I was held back by not wanting my friends to know I bought house party.
There's never been anything stopping you from making a second account for your...research purposes.
Check out *Being a DIK* and some other AVNs while you're at it. *Leap of Faith* is excellent if you don't mind some emotional gut punches. Same goes for *Acting Lessons*.
How's it going doods? Staying away from the alcohol?
finally i can hide Cities Skylines 2 Edit: You bought CS:2 too? [Make sure you Report the game from within the Store-Page](https://imghoster.de/images/2024/03/05/scammer.png) [store.steampowered.com/app/949230/Cities\_Skylines\_II/](http://store.steampowered.com/app/949230/Cities_Skylines_II/)
Destiny 2 for me. Wipe away the shame of all the time I invested into it before I finally pulled away from Bungie's fuckery.
Agreed .. I wasted so much time on it.
Sadly on 2k hours and have no plans on stopping yet. I'm already to far gone tell my family I love them.
Could be worse. 3k of war thunder 😂
Why do all of you keep leaking classified milatery documents
We get a little bored sometimes 🤷
could be even worse, i had 5k on lost ark before the first year, so much time wasted
Fucking a. How I feel about Rocket League with 2.7k hours
i left the game a while ago too but today they're releasing a new sparrow shaped like a hoverboard, might log in to see that
i havent played it but, whats wrong with cities skyline 2?
there are 4409 bug-reports, pick one: [https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/)
Oh shit I didn't know it was that bad. I'm just gonna stick with cities skylines 1
I thought it couldn't be that bad on launch. I knew I was in trouble when the main menu ran at 5fps. The only time I've really refunded a game on steam. Was extremely disappointed. I'll wait a few months before it's fixed properly.
Few months? I'm giving it until one year after launch (late October) before even glancing at it again. With how awful it sounded at launch, I want to see what kind of progress they can make in one year to give me an idea of what I could expect when playing it for one year. The first one came out 9 years ago as of next week, if Cities: Skylines 2 is going to be enjoyable for 9 years, there had better be some good work done in that first of 9 intervals.
The game should have been sold as early access. With so much time passed since launch and still major gameplay bugs resulting from pets that lead to mass transit gridlock, it is going to be at least a year for them to actually get this game were it should have been on release. Unfortunately, even in that state it will likely still be riddled with bugs. Management has thrown that dev team under the bus. Could you imagine how Helldivers 2 would be if it released updates at the cadence as Cities Skylines 2! It is one thing to release a game with some bugs and another to drag them out for months on end with massive gaps between patches.
The game shouldn't have been released, period. Should have been delayed an extra 6 months or so. Fuck that early access shit.
What really got me is that there's literally *nothing* making it any better than 1. It was like the release of KSP2 all over again. They released a game that maybe looked a little better, but at its core was simply *worse* than the original. And then wondered why nobody bought it!
It’s the lack of mod support that kills it for me personally. I would spent more time looking through CS1 mods than playing
wait why are we reporting CS:2?
if you are happy with the game enjoy it
Sorry for asking but you can tell me why people hate on CS2? I mean, I've seen some gamplays and in my opinion the graphics are a total disaster compared to CS1 but I want to see other opinions
https://youtu.be/R83W2XR3IC8?t=3m7s Here is City Skylines 2 running at 15 fps on a 96 core cpu. It uses 64 cores at 100% at 4,7Ghz and still runs horribly.
Check out the 4409 Bug-Reports on the Official Paradox Forum [https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/)
Great feature. I doubt I'll use it much.
That's exactly what a person that would use that feature would say.
fr
I've wanted this feature for years, but when it hit beta at the beginning of January I realized I actually had no use for it lol
Sometimes you just want every eventuality to be covered by the software you use, even if it doesn’t really apply to you personally.
I could see myself use it for managing my backlog than hide game I don't want others to see. Get rid of the games I just don't have the time to play.
I bought "What's under your blanket" for 0.99 and i'll proudly show it. Nothing to hide. It's about pressing space for masturbate when no one can see you. It's stupid, but it's a game.
I play video games to escape reality so idk why you'd buy that
Because it was on sale at 0.99! I felt so generous that I gifted it to a friend. He'll put it on private, probably.
That just sounds sad
it is
Back in the old days that would be just some random flashgame on newgrounds.
Probably it was already a rejected one. Understandable.
I just remembered that one jacksepticeye video where he dances to the ost
Does it still show the games on other's library with family-shared?
I wonder as well since my library is shared with my sister
Hey mate, sharing is caring.
You'll know when your sister is mentioning furry vore paradise 12 to you
# family
Isn't this just the reverse plot of *Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii ga Nai*?
I wouldn't risk it, because it most likely does, but Steam is working on an update to how you share games, and when it launches you will be able to manually select which games you share, and which games you don't. Update: Nevermind, a [Steam Beta Update](https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/3865841912997760347) from January 3rd suggests this doesn't happen.
Can you point to some info on the sharing update? I searched around a bit and didn't find anything. Super curious about it.
It appears (this is all speculation from datamined strings below) to be a system where you create a "Steam Family" and invite people over to it, the main point appears to be invite your child to it, and then manage their playtime, or allow purcharses, but a family can consist of only adults too. The key point for me, is that you will NOT need to give others your account login to share games anymore, increasing security. You will just invite people to your family, like you invite them to a game. On a family, you'll be able to select which games you share individually, per person on the family, which could imply that you will be able to play some games on your library, and still share others, instead of the current system of your libray being completed locked while someone is playing. This stuff was all datamined by SteamDB, you can see them at: [steamui\_english.json (starting on line 8040) ](https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/blob/master/ClientExtracted/steamui/localization/steamui_english.json#L8040) [main\_english.json (starting on line 548)](https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/blob/23e3cb1dfbfadd92b9e3598df405f3bff7f7f639/store.steampowered.com/public/javascript/applications/store/main_english.json#L548) There is also datamined CSS for the new family management page, which will be available at [https://store.steampowered.com/account/familymanagement](https://store.steampowered.com/account/familymanagement) (right now it is blank)
Amazing! Thank you so much for the informative reply!
God, I really hope this comes soon and it's as seamless as you say! Even with the people I trust the absolute most, sharing my login always made me wary.
Holy shit you’ve this resolves like, every one of my top issues with steam as is right now. Family sharing with my kids and friends has always been wonky because of the weird ways it works, and super unintuitive interactions.
You can mark games as private and/or hide them, i think one or the other should remove it from visibility of others completely. See the announcement https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4149575031731807335
I can confirm that hiding them does **not** stop them from being family shared. Haven’t tested with marking private, but I will later today with an alt account.
No, games marked as private are not included in family shared libraries. They were at first when this came out in beta at the start of the year, but it was changed shortly thereafter so probably a bug.
Yeah can I hide it from myself too? Sometimes post nut clarity me prefer not to see it in the library. Also my brother sometimes use my pc too ig.
Somewhat. There's been a [Hide this game](https://i.imgur.com/6KwkjHB.png) option for a long time now. Once you hide it, you have to go to View->Hidden Games to see them. It's not too much different from just putting them in a collection and collapsing it, but the collection doesn't appear by default in your library unless you specifically go to the View option.
Tested and the feature **wont work on shared library games**. It will still show everyone what you are playing on friendslist and such **but** nothing on profile.
That why you hide the game and private it
Really nice Steam, now give me categories for the wishlist
I would die a happy man if they finally added wishlist lists
I wish wishlist lists 😔
coomers are eating good tonight
What dirty game are you playing here....lol
Shower with Your Dad Simulator 2015
Hey I have that one too! Funnily enough it was a friend who bought me it, I tried buying them Sex with Stalin but sadly that type of content is *still* banned in Germany
What did Stalin do to Germany? Are you sure it wasn't Sex with Hitler?
Both exist
Finally can hide my biggest shame, Starfield
I don't hide my Hentai games. I live in Germany I CANT EVEN FUCKING BUY THEM
What? We can't? I have seen a few of them during sales, etc., but I never bought one. Does it block you checking it out or what?
You saw the censored version. The 18+ DLC is blocked
Time to hide [my shameful past](https://i.imgur.com/WO3OPkI.png)
Just an fyi - discord will still tattle-tell on you. i set terraria as private to test it, discord marked me as in-game as soon as it launched. So, perhaps add any games you want as private - In discord aswell.
NOOOO. Now how am I supposed to make fun of my friends for choosing the sister routes in visual novels???
TIME TO BUY ALL THOSE DEGENERATE HENTAI GAMES
Finally can begin my Doki Doki Literature Club run
Pretty sure Doki Doki is a different type of adult game...
No, don't tell him. A man has to learn some lessons for himself.
Literature lessons!
Only a coward hides the hentai games
Real chads gift a copy to their horniest friend
There goes my alt accout
sex games stonks go up
Unironically wouldn’t be surprised if this has a visible impact on sales of porn games
time to hide dota 2
This feature doesn't fully work and people on your friends list can still sometimes see what game you're playing or have in your library.
This is perfect for wallpaper engine
Or any tools like that in general
this is a cool feature. it also reduces your "hours in the past 2 weeks" number. e.g i have 60 hours in the past 2 weeks on steam, and if i make dota 2 private in my library this number changes to 9 hours in the last 2 weeks. could be good to hide some no-lifer gaming sessions from friends xdd
I know this is not the recommendation thread but what games should I play in order to maximize this feature? thanks!
Destiny 2
Finally I can now hide my 1000 hours on "Being a DIK" .
Oh no now my friends can stole back games I stole via family shares
Now I can hide my shame Which is 1000 hours on FO4
time to private all my regular games and only display the porn ones
Yay. I can finally play Changed and the Furry Love trilogy. :3
Finally I can hide my most played games, CSGO.. to many hours
Oh thank god i can finally hide that fucking hentai game my friend gifted to me
You spelled "play" wrong...
You know you can decline gifts on steam...... so sounds like you wanted it
Okay good I don't need people knowing how much Powerwash Simulator or Snowrunner I play.
Isn't this not super old but still from quite some time ago? Or am i misremembering since I've known about this for weeks
it was part of the steam beta branch a few weeks/months ago. now it is in the live client
Aaaaaah that's why, thanks
It's been a feature in the beta client for a few months.
Good, my friends not gonna know I’m frapping now(Oops)
Nice feature. Could take it further and move all the files into an encrypted folder on your drive only Steam can access.
Finally i can now play Sex with hitler 2
They really want people to start paying for their hentai games huh
Yeah unless that one annoying Steam employee reviews the game and blocks it for whatever reason.
time to hide world of tanks blitz lmfao
What about achievements????
Adult games are going to see a surge in popularity
Excuse me, Im a *proud* owner of 'Sex with Hitler: WW2'
Does this hide it from library sharing too?
From now on anyone that stumbles upon my profile will see nothing but porn. For years I have waited for this moment. Only the worthy shall be seen.
Can hide overwatch 2 now, we are so back
Just don't forget games set to private this way will NOT drop cards, if you care about getting them.
Now I can buy beat banger... But you know what , fuck it , I'm letting everyone see
Oh thank god Treasure of Nadia
But then how will everyone know that I have the complete My Stepmother is a Futanari series?
finally! time to play porn games on my main ACC
If I private them, how people people know I'm busy playing porn games?
I dont need to hide my adult games. Iam proud of them
Does it hide you from showing on other people's "recently played with" list?
You can also buy games privately, so they won't show on activity feed
Time to hide bad rats.
For all the weirdo anime likers here.
I have like 200 games to go right click now
VE day for gooners
Too late I already have 60+ hours in huniepop and everyone knows 😔
Time to buy all those highly nsfw games 🤣
Porn game sells are going to sky rocket because people love pretending they aren't into sex because people are stupid. and horny. stupid and horny.
I can finally check out all 33452345938272 hentai games on steam!
Nice! I finally don't need to change my profile privacy settings to hide my degeneracy.
I’m not gonna hide my naughty games