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Steam now lets you hide individual games from people’s prying eyesAnd tracks your shopping basket across all devices
And tracks your shopping basket across all devices
Afterseveral months on the Steam beta build, Valve last night officially launched an update which revamps the shopping experience and lets you hide your shame. Two universal conveniences: your shopping basket is now shared across devices, so no losing track of things you meant to buy later; and buying gift copies is now less faffy. More conditional: you can now choose to make individual games private, meaning no one will ever see if you own them or are playing them. I won’t ask why you might want to hide any particular games.
“During the beta period we made improvements and fixed bugs – thanks to your feedback!” Valve said inlast night’s blog post. “DLC for private apps will also default to private, but you can customize that from App Properties in the game’s Library Details page. And when you’re playing a private app you’ll be reminded of your status with a privacy indicator at the top of your Friends List.”
Drag your pals in forthis month’s RPS Game Club, yeah?Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve
Might be due a tidy of my Favourites list |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve
Wags might suggest you will want to hide your vast collection of hentai games but frankly, if that is a potential issue, I assume you’ve made hentai a large enough part of your personality that you want the world to know. You’ve probably emblazoned your Steam profile with a max-level trading card badge from one hentai game, and a wallpaper from another which artfully uses the blank space in the middle to hide indescribable eroticisms, and you include at least two horny emojis in every Steam message you send. No, a far more likely shame is that you don’t want anyone to know how much you played e.g. The Binding Of Isaac,Balatro, orDestiny 2. 2023 hours of Destiny not counting the Battle.net days, eh? Ha, ha ha, okay Alice. No one can ever know. Take this knowledge to your grave. Certainly don’t publish it on a PC gaming website that’s been running since 1873.
