SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik showed a screenshot of the feature on X (formerly Twitter), suggesting it’s currently in the works.
At the moment, if players have a game in their library that they may not want others to know about, they can choose to hide it from their library. All this does, however, is stop others seeing it in their list of games.
Once a player starts playing that game, their achievements and playtime for that will still be visible to others.
As such, at the moment the only way a player can truly ensure nobody knows they play a certain game is to set their entire Steam library, play activity and achievements to private.
The new feature will let players choose a specific game and select a “Mark as Private” option on its drop-down menu.
I think this can be a good feature for steam gamers who don't want people to know how much money they spent on games by looking through their public game library.
I wonder if having the ability to hide games in Steam will cause some Steam games to have lower sales if too many people hide games, and fewer people can find the game title by browsing a person's profile.
