
The kinds of games you play might also invite unwanted attention and opinions either in your personal life or your gaming life.Alternatively, you can keep the Game details setting at Friends Only (which is the default setting) and check the box next to Always keep my total playtime private even if users can see my game details to block your total game playtime only. Your Steam activity isn’t exactly the same as say, a phone number but if you keep it all public, you may still give away how often you play and even when you play. Click your profile icon at the top right and go to your profile to make the same changes there. You will find these same settings on the Steam web interface. You can choose to limit the audience for this information as well. Once you change these settings, it’s a good idea to also click the Edit Profile button next to your profile picture. On the edit profile screen, you will see a field for which country you reside in. This will make it so that any description that you’ve entered with your profile, and your profile picture remain public but everything else will be hidden. You can keep your profile public and set these items to private individually. Your profile is the main header so if you set it to private, everything else that’s under it i.e., game details, friends list, and inventory will also be set to private. These items are your profile, game details, friends list, and inventory. Click it and you will see all the items that you can change the visibility for. The profile page has a ‘My Privacy Settings’ option. On the Steam app, click your profile at the top right and select View My Profile from the menu.

This can be done by accessing the Steam website via any web browser, or you can do it via the Steam app installed on your system. You can hide your activity on Steam by changing the privacy settings. Here’s how you can hide your activity on Steam as well as hide personal information. It also gives other users who visit your profile information about which games you play, and other aliases that you’ve used in the past. Most information, by default, is public which means information about when you last played a game (aka when you were last active on Steam) is public, among other things.



It’s fairly simple stuff but your account comes with a social aspect as well. When you play games on Steam, you have to first create an account, install the app, and then use the account you created to download games.
