Gifted games on steam family

[alexisawsome]

If I gift a game to a family member that is in my steam family. Will I be able to access said game?

[76561199190314378]

If the game has family sharing enabled... yes.

[Anonymous Helper]

As long as it can be shared in the first place, yes. Game must have sharing enabled and must not require 3rd party launcher or account.

[senillosa]

The game will first be presented on the family leader's account, and the leader will then have to validate it for all the other people in the family.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by senillosa:

The game will first be presented on the family leader's account, and the leader will then have to validate it for all the other people in the family.

This is not how that works. At all.
If someone in the family buys a new game it becomes available for everyone in the family and just shows up in their library.
There is no "validating" by the family leader or similar going on.

[senillosa]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by senillosa:

The game will first be presented on the family leader's account, and the leader will then have to validate it for all the other people in the family.

This is not how that works. At all.
If someone in the family buys a new game it becomes available for everyone in the family and just shows up in their library.
There is no "validating" by the family leader or similar going on.

Oh, damn, my familly account must work differently from the others, or maybe you're one of those people who doesn't know what you're talking about.

[miamew3]

Originally posted by senillosa:

The game will first be presented on the family leader's account, and the leader will then have to validate it for all the other people in the family.

I think that only counts for those that have child accounts in their steam families

[senillosa]

Well, this way he gets the info, maybe he uses the family steam to get the family steam.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by senillosa:

Oh, damn, my familly account must work differently from the others, or maybe you're one of those people who doesn't know what you're talking about.

I have 3 Steam families (different accounts), two as creator, one as a member.
So far every game i bought or that someone else bought showed up at once for every member of the family right after purchase.
Maybe it has something to do with parental control settings, all my families only have "adult" members.

[rawWwRrr]

Depends on whether or not Child accounts have parent controls activated for them, and whether or not those accounts have restricted library content. Otherwise, as soon as the game is in one of the members account, it is available for the entire family assuming the game is allowed to be family shared by the publisher/developer.