Valve has launched Steam Families, a streamlined, enhanced version of its existing household sharing tools which is available now in beta form.
Steam Families combines and replaces features previously available through Valve’s Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View tools, and creates a way for up to six family members to share a combined games library, consisting of titles (including owned DLC) from across each member’s individual libraries, that anyone can access at any time, with a few provisos.
The big caveat is that games are only eligible if developers haven’t opted out of the Steam Families scheme, but with that particular roadblock out the way, the only other key restriction is that a single owned copy of a game can’t be played by more than one person at any time. If multiple people want to play a game simultaneously, multiple versions of a game must be purchased and available in the shared library.
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