Tutorial to learn how to share your digital video game library with other trusted users, step by step.
Steam offers the possibility to its users to share the games from its digital library with other users of the Valve platform through a fairly simple method but many are unaware of it, thus being able to give permissions to other Steam accounts on other equipment so that they can access a particular library of games, all through the system known as Steam Family Share or Steam Family Loan. Therefore, below we offer you a complete tutorial to learn how to share your Steam video game library with other users.
How to share Steam games with other users
The first step is to activate the Steam Guard tool, that is, the Steam double authentication protection system, a mandatory step to be able to share our digital library. To do this, access the Steam Parameters tab and in the account options activate Steam Guard, following the steps provided by Steam.
Now we must access the user's computer with which we want to share our Steam digital library in person, using our Steam access data on that computer. If we have a lot of trust with said person, we can give our access data so that it can be done remotely; Even so, the Steam Guard system will provide us with the necessary security to avoid identity theft in our account. Follow the next steps:
We must bear in mind, however, that the Steam Family Loan service has its limitations and peculiarities:
- We can lend our account in up to 10 teams at the same time and with up to 5 different accounts.
- It is not possible to play a shared library on two or more computers at the same time.
- Some video games may not be shared between different computers and users.
