Why Do I Want to Do This?

This less than ideal situation is, however, thankfully mended by the release of the Steam Family Options.

We’ve had the opportunity to beta-test Family Options and have been quite pleased with it.

How to Enable Family Options (aka Parental Controls) In Your Steam Client

Turning Family Options On

Launch your Steam client.

Once it has finished loading, navigate via the menu bar to Steam - >configs.

Within the configs menu, select Family.

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At the top of the screen you’ll see Family Options, as seen in the screenshot above.

Click Manage Family Options.

We’re going to configure the tweaks on the strictest level.

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you might adjust the options for your own family as you see fit.

when you obtain done so, click Continue.

Once you’ve checked off all the games you want to share with your kids, click Continue.

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They’re not kidding about jotting it down, by the way.

It’s a huge pain to jump through the security hoops and unlock your client if you forget it.

Select your pin and click Continue.

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The final screen is a confirmation screen.

At this point everything is locked down.

That’s all there is to it!

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