Yesterday, boyfriend How-To Geek writer Eric Ravenscraft recommended a Steam game in our role chat room. It's all nearly writing…and as well it'southward near anime-style schoolgirls and the wooing thereof.

But what gave me break more than the warnings of unsaid drawing coitus was the thought of said game appearing on my public Steam contour, visible to people like my grandmother and my boss and anyone who might exist Googling me earlier a showtime date. Before playing this new game, I want to make my Steam contour, including my list of owned games and playing habits, individual. Hither's how you do that.

And by the mode, if you lot're wondering what the game is and why I'm now drawing attention to the fact that I own it, the answers are one) Doki Doki Literature Club!, which I am reliably informed is Not Safe For Work and 2) this is really but an elaborate setup to make yous more personally invested in the article beneath. Is information technology working?

How to Disable Your Public Profile

In the Steam desktop app, move the mouse cursor over your profile proper name tab—it should be directly to the right of "Community." In the dropdown menu, click "Contour."

On this page, click "Edit Profile" in the upper correct corner, then click "My Privacy Settings."

From here yous tin select three options for Steam profile. They're pretty self-explanatory on the page, giving options for total privacy or admission but to your Steam friends. If you want admittedly no one to encounter your games, comments, or inventory on the public web, select "Private" for all three. Ringlet downward and click "Save changes."

At present when you or anyone else opens your Steam profile on the web, they'll come across the following message.

What Do You Lose With a Private Profile?

Even when your profile is individual, y'all tin however send and receive friend invites within the Steam social system and fifty-fifty trade items. Nonetheless, the hub for your personal sharing, including badges, screenshots and videos, game reviews, guides, and other uploaded content, won't be accessible to other users unless you add them as friends (and not even so if you selected "Individual" instead of "Friends merely."

Also, 3rd-political party tools that use public information for Steam, like this handy site that calculates the value of your game drove, won't be able to access that information on your contour.

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