How to Set Up New Steam Families to Share Games

The fresh Steam game families have finally come out of beta and are now available to all users who want to share their game libraries.

Valve has introduced a fresh Steam Families feature to replace the platform’s customary family sharing, as well as the family view feature. The fresh method is much more streamlined and makes sharing games a lot easier than it used to be.

To get started with Steam Families, you’ll need to either create a family or join an existing one.

How many members can a Steam family have?

One Steam family can have a total of six membersThere are two types of accounts – adult and child, and the combination varies depending on the family.

How to Create a Steam Family

To create a Steam family, simply:

1. Open Steam.
2. Go to the top left of the client and click Steam (with the logo).
3. Then select Settings from the drop-down menu.
4. Click Family (third from top).
5. Then click the blue “Create or Join a Steam Family” button.
6. The Family Management screen will appear with two options, “Join a Family” and “Create a Family.” Click the second option.
7. Enter your chosen name and click Create.

That’s it – you’ve now created a Steam Family and can invite people to join it. If you want to join an existing Family, select the first option in Step 6.

How to Check if You Can Share a Game within a Steam Family

The best way to find out if a game can be shared via Steam Families is to visit its store page and look for the Family Sharing feature.

If the game mentions it, congratulations — you’ll be able to share it with your friends. If the feature isn’t mentioned, unfortunately you won’t be able to share it and will have to wait for the developers to implement it.

Steam provided game list that currently support this feature, and at the time of this writing there are over 66,000 matching results.