I don’t understand how after all these years Steam doesn’t have more granular control over what games / activity you show to the world. Why can I just hide some games?
I prefer it this way. Having to hide all games provides a chance for introspection about the finite amount of time we get in our lives and wether or not tentacle Anime kitten girls are the company in which we want to spend it
Steam recently updated to make it way easier to switch between accounts. It used to be you had to authenticate every time, which was a pain with Steam Guard. Now there's a Change Account function which won't invalidate your authentication token though it does seem to sign you out until you switch back.
I use that to ensure I'm not advertising certain games to the world.
I mean, that’s a good one. But the problem for me is that I already have a few special games, and even without playing them they would show up on my profile if I ever set it to visible.
Ended up just making a separate steam account. Though on my steamdeck it 'helpfully' shows recent updates for all games for all accounts on the device even if they aren't logged in, which is annoying.
Its just the big picture mode of steam, you can still use the Steam client in desktop mode and also have a nice experience on it. But the big picture mode is the default and you can also figure it out on you Windows Steam Big Pic client.
The games are hidden on steamdeck as well. The steamdeck store homepage ignores the hidden setting when displaying the 'recently updated' category (or at least it did a few months ago, haven't checked in awhile)
It is just incoming notifications though right? I always thought it was messed up that I can stop the notifications coming in but I can't stop them going out.
I sure hope that has changed since I last checked.