Does buying a game after playing it via family sharing keep your data on the game?

[road work ahead]

I have a game I love with many achievements and hours, I’d love to buy this game for myself to write a review on it. But I would like to keep my stats for it. I played this game via family sharing and I am wondering if I buy it if it would keep my stats from when I played it on family sharing.

[mimizukari]

According to Steam Family Sharing, you can share your Steam library of games with family and guests while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your own game progress to the Steam Cloud.

[road work ahead]

Originally posted by ロザリンド:

According to Steam Family Sharing, you can share your Steam library of games with family and guests while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your own game progress to the Steam Cloud.

So, if I buy the exact same game but y’know actually buy it for my account it would keep my; hours, achievements and progress in the game?

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Duke nukem:

Originally posted by ロザリンド:

According to Steam Family Sharing, you can share your Steam library of games with family and guests while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your own game progress to the Steam Cloud.

So, if I buy the exact same game but y’know actually buy it for my account it would keep my; hours, achievements and progress in the game?

Yes you will

[road work ahead]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Duke nukem:

So, if I buy the exact same game but y’know actually buy it for my account it would keep my; hours, achievements and progress in the game?

Yes you will

I have spent so long trying to figure this out. Thank you so much.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Duke nukem:

Originally posted by Satoru:

Yes you will

I have spent so long trying to figure this out. Thank you so much.

Steam keeps 'how' you own a game separate from the achievements, playtime and any other community stuff. This is so that no matter how you're getting a game, family sharing, free weekend, etc, all of that progress will carry over if you purchase the game in the future. It would be a fairly bad experience if you played on a free weekend for example. then bought the game 2 days later only to find out all your hours and achievements and saves had gotten wiped out.

[MrDekra]

Erm, I just bought dark souls 3 deluxe after sharing my daughter's copy (didn't want to conflict with her being on her steam account) just launched the game and it's treating me like a new player, no progress at all - help please (I'm on steam deck)

[Ogami]

Originally posted by MrDekra:

Erm, I just bought dark souls 3 deluxe after sharing my daughter's copy (didn't want to conflict with her being on her steam account) just launched the game and it's treating me like a new player, no progress at all - help please (I'm on steam deck)

Thats because Dark Souls 3 is one of the games with "restricted" Family Share.
The save games are always associated with the owner account of the game copy, to prevent cheating in multiplayer.
You will have to start from scratch with your own copy.
As far as i remember all the Dark Souls games and also Elden Ring handle Family Share this way.

[Kyurus]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by MrDekra:

Erm, I just bought dark souls 3 deluxe after sharing my daughter's copy (didn't want to conflict with her being on her steam account) just launched the game and it's treating me like a new player, no progress at all - help please (I'm on steam deck)

Thats because Dark Souls 3 is one of the games with "restricted" Family Share.
The save games are always associated with the owner account of the game copy, to prevent cheating in multiplayer.
You will have to start from scratch with your own copy.
As far as i remember all the Dark Souls games and also Elden Ring handle Family Share this way.

I'm thinking of buying elden ring and I've currently got 10 hours on it via family share - would the data (achievements, saves and hours) transfer over? Could you tell me how to?

[JamesF0790]

Originally posted by Kyurus:

Originally posted by Ogami:

Thats because Dark Souls 3 is one of the games with "restricted" Family Share.
The save games are always associated with the owner account of the game copy, to prevent cheating in multiplayer.
You will have to start from scratch with your own copy.
As far as i remember all the Dark Souls games and also Elden Ring handle Family Share this way.

I'm thinking of buying elden ring and I've currently got 10 hours on it via family share - would the data (achievements, saves and hours) transfer over? Could you tell me how to?

Just buy the game, that's all you have to do. Nothing more.

[Kyurus]

thanks for lmk

[SkootsMcToots]

Great topic. My son uses some games on my account. But when He is playing those games, I can not play any of my steam games. I was not sure about this exact question. Thanks to all who answered.

[Tempest_of_the_Blood]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by MrDekra:

Erm, I just bought dark souls 3 deluxe after sharing my daughter's copy (didn't want to conflict with her being on her steam account) just launched the game and it's treating me like a new player, no progress at all - help please (I'm on steam deck)

Thats because Dark Souls 3 is one of the games with "restricted" Family Share.
The save games are always associated with the owner account of the game copy, to prevent cheating in multiplayer.
You will have to start from scratch with your own copy.
As far as i remember all the Dark Souls games and also Elden Ring handle Family Share this way.

I'm guessing fallout 3 is the same way, I've been playing it from my husband's library on our shared steam deck and hr just bought me the game due to the sale going on so that he could play games from his library on his computer while I played fallout 3, all my save data, gone, just gone, is there a way to get it back in any way?

[Kanteike]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Duke nukem:

I have spent so long trying to figure this out. Thank you so much.

Steam keeps 'how' you own a game separate from the achievements, playtime and any other community stuff. This is so that no matter how you're getting a game, family sharing, free weekend, etc, all of that progress will carry over if you purchase the game in the future. It would be a fairly bad experience if you played on a free weekend for example. then bought the game 2 days later only to find out all your hours and achievements and saves had gotten wiped out.

What about time spent playing? I just joined a family group and all of the sudden the hour counts i had on all my games (the ones I own) got reset to 0

[LePapot]

Originally posted by YOU. YES, YOU.:

Originally posted by ロザリンド:

According to Steam Family Sharing, you can share your Steam library of games with family and guests while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your own game progress to the Steam Cloud.

So, if I buy the exact same game but y’know actually buy it for my account it would keep my; hours, achievements and progress in the game?

Yes, you will! So there is nothing to worry about

[Elijah]

Hey! Wondering if you ever tried this and if you have to redownload the game after purchasing it for yourself, I assume not but would love some confirmation :)