How to Hide Games from Friends on Steam? -

Last Updated on 22 September, 2023

How to Hide Games from Friends on Steam – Hide & Unhide a Game, Hide Recent activity and setting your profile or the game details to private

Contents

1 How to Hide Games from Friends on Steam – Hide a Game
- 1.1 Unhide a Game
2 What can you hide from your friends on Steam?
3 How to Hide Games from Friends on Steam – Hide Game Activity

There are many ways to hide information on Steam, and we are going to explain them all to you. If you want nobody to know that you play a certain game, check out the first section. But if you want to erase the trace of your last, that nobody knows how much time you spend on a game, or make your profile completely private, go to the next section

How to Hide Games from Friends on Steam – Hide a Game

This will make the game or games you select no longer visible to others:

Launch Steam
Go to the game library and click on the game you want to hide
Once you are on the game page click on the gear icon, on the right, just above achievements
Hover the mouse cursor over the Manage tab, and select the “Hide this game” option

Unhide a Game

This will make the game(s) you select visible to others again.

Launch Steam
Go to the game library and click on the hidden tab (left menu)
Click on the game and select unhide

What can you hide from your friends on Steam?

You can hide the games you decide to hide one by one. So if you want, by repeating the process with all the games, you can hide them all. Of course you can also unhide them all if you have already hidden them. So basically you can hide the game or games you want

What you can’t do is filter who you show your games to and who you don’t. That is, if you have a friend and you just want to hide the certain game from him, it is not possible at the moment.

Although it may be that what really interests you is the following:

How to Hide Games from Friends on Steam – Hide Game Activity

There are several methods, the first is from the Privacy Settings:

Setting the Game details to Private

This will make only your game details (not your entire profile), including your in-game activity, invisible to others.

Launch Steam > Click on your name (bar at the top) > Click on Profile
Click on Edit profile (under your current level)
Click on My Privacy settings (right menu) > Change Game details to Private

Setting the profile to Private

This will make your entire profile, including your in-game activity, invisible to others.

Launch Steam > Click on your name (bar at the top) > Click on Profile
Click on Edit profile (under your current level)
Click on My Privacy settings (right menu) > Change “My Profile” to private

Just Remove Recent activity

But if all you wanted was for your recent account activity to stop being visible, try this weird method

Launch Steam > Click on Store
Use the search box and search “Making of Fury” > Click on the Making of Furi listing
Click on the Episode 1 Watch (Green) button and and close the window as soon as it opens (by clicking the X in the top right)
Do the same with the next two episodes (2 and 3)
- Click on the Episode 2 Watch (Green) button and and close the window as soon as it opens (by clicking the X in the top right)
- Click on the Episode 3 Watch (Green) button and and close the window as soon as it opens (by clicking the X in the top right)
Check recent activity on your profile, it should be gone

We hope that one of the proposals that we have included in this guide was what you were looking for, and that you have already managed to hide what you did not want to share with the rest. Although if you got here and you couldn’t solve your doubt, explain to us what you need and we will try to solve it for you

Other Steam Guides