Steam has officially rolled out an update that lets users private individual games in their library along with improvements to the shopping cart.
Prior to this update, users were able to private their entire library but not specific games – meaning that if you have a title you’d rather your friends not see, you had no choice but to private everything.
Now, however, you can mark a game as private on your library to ensure that it and all its details will only be visible to you – this includes:
- Ownership of the title.
- DLC.
- In-game status – you won’t appear to be playing it when you are.
- Playtime.
- Activity.
- Purchasing the title – you can mark games as private before even purchasing them.
Steam notes that it rolled out this update specifically to allow you to let your friends see what you’re playing and join in while enabling you to keep a few games “just to yourself”.
Along with the improvement to game privacy, the update included a few upgrades to the shopping cart.
This includes inline gifting, which lets you purchase multiple items for you and your friends without needing to make different carts, and one unified cart across all your devices – meaning you can update your cart from any device if you’re signed in.
Gift messaging has also been streamlined to make it simpler and quicker during the checkout process.
This official update comes after a beta period where Steam fixed and made multiple improvements for the new features.
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