{"id":61720,"date":"2014-02-28T23:40:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=61720"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:50:54","slug":"steam-family-sharing-feature-available-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/steam-family-sharing-feature-available-to-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Family Sharing feature available to all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has released Steam Family Sharing to all users. The feature first <a title=\"Steam Family Sharing lets gamers share their games with up to 10 friends\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/steam-family-sharing-lets-gamers-share-their-games-with-up-to-10-friends\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched in beta<\/a> September of last year and allows you to share your game library with up to 5 friends.<\/p>\n<p>After you add players to your Family Sharing group, you can request access to a friend&#8217;s game. Only one of you can play at a time, though the owner of the game will have access at all times. The guest will be given the option to buy the game or to quit playing<\/p>\n<p>To enable Family Sharing, you&#8217;ll have to ste up Steam Guard if you haven&#8217;t already. Go to <em>Steam &gt; Settings &gt; Family<\/em> to authorize your computer to share with users. You and your 5 friends can authorize up to 10 machines simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, check out our <a title=\"Steam Family Sharing lets gamers share their games with up to 10 friends\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/steam-family-sharing-lets-gamers-share-their-games-with-up-to-10-friends\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original article<\/a> about Steam Family Sharing and Valve&#8217;s FAQ at the source link below.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Steam Family Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sharing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steam<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/walking-dead-season-2-episode-2\">Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 2 drops Mar. 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/flappy-bird-clones-still-flooding-app-stores\">Flappy Bird clones still flooding app stores<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/sign-up-for-the-tropico-5-beta\">Sign up for the Tropico 5 beta<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has released Steam Family Sharing to all users. The feature first launched in beta September of last year and allows you to share your game library with up to 5 friends. After you add players to your Family Sharing group, you can request access to a friend&#8217;s game. Only one of you can play &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/steam-family-sharing-feature-available-to-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steam Family Sharing feature available to all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":61721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-61720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331231,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61720\/revisions\/331231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61720"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=61720"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=61720"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=61720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}