Steam may soon let you hide specific games from your friends

Tired of having to explain yourself every time your friends catch you firing up Hosiery Party: Wet Potato Frenzy on Steam? Well, there’s some good news: Valve is reportedly readying a feature that’ll let you mark specific games as “private” so you can hide your more unusual tastes from other users while still maintaining a public profile.

At present, Steam’s privacy settings don’t support the kind of granularity needed to hide individual games, only enabling users to dictate broad categories – game details, friends list, inventory, screenshots, and workshop items – to keep discreet.

As spotted by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik, however (thanks PC Gamer), Valve is seemingly poised to add a ‘mark as private’ setting to individual titles, so they can specifically be hidden from the prying eyes of friends. That means you won’t have to lock down huge chunks of your profile just to avoid difficult questions about the amount of time you’ve been playing Coquettish Elbow Reveal VR Edition. Or, in my case, 400 straight hours of Disney Dreamlight Valley.