Friend gets "Failure: no license" when trying to accept my invite to play

[76561199517577427]

I'm new to steam and online gaming. I bought a 2-player game (Nobody Saves the World) on Steam so I can play with my kiddo. I added them as a friend. They're also new and haven't bought games on Steam (a limited account??). I started the game and invited them. They accepted and immediately got a pop-up saying:

"Failure: no license".

I looked through the chat boards and tried Google for help, but haven't found anything about this issue except reassurance that:

1) Yes, friends with a "limited account" are allowed to join my game when I invite them; and
2) Only one of us needs to have bought the game to play with each other.

The only post I found remotely close to this issue said to turn Steam Guard on and add my kiddo's account to the Family Library Sharing. We did that on BOTH computers, but my kiddo still gets the same Failure message AND we can't find the Family Library I've shared from their account. They can't see my shared list of games.

I checked the game properties to see if Nobody Saves the World has a license or product code we need to input into my kiddo's account. I couldn't find one.

Both of us have our profile privacy settings to "Game details:Friends Only" (as recommended by someone else) and we both restarted our computers because "Did ya turn it off and back on again" often fixes the issues haha

No matter what we try, that Failure message comes up.

The only reason I'm on Steam is to play games with my kiddo and am seriously frustrated bc we couldn't get 2-player games to work on GoG, either. I would greatly appreciate someone explaining how I can fix this issue.
TIA

[The End]

You might have a better chance to get help in the games own forum.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1432050/discussions/

[Azure Fang]

To play games with someone that doesn't own a copy, you need to select and configure "Remote Play Together". Standard invites are exclusively for players that own a copy. This applies to pretty much all games on Steam that support both Remote Play and Online Play.

[76561199517577427]

Originally posted by Azure Fang:

To play games with someone that doesn't own a copy, you need to select and configure "Remote Play Together". Standard invites are exclusively for players that own a copy. This applies to pretty much all games on Steam that support both Remote Play and Online Play.

Thank you. That let my kiddo see what I was doing (tho laggy) and they could take control, but we still couldn't get them as the second player. We were stuck in the "Lobby" of the game, not able to invite or add them as the second player since they were already remotely in the game. All we could do was play single player with both of us having control of the same character. Not fun.

Is that how these game work? Not really multi-player, just "watch me play from your screen" unless I buy the game again on their account? Isn't that what Family Library Sharing is for? Sorry - this is all new to me

[The End]

Originally posted by Mumther:

unless I buy the game again on their account? Isn't that what Family Library Sharing is for? Sorry - this is all new to me

No, Library sharing is not for making it possible for two or more users to play the same game on one license.

Can two users share a library and both play at the same time?
No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time.

https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing

Remote Play Together is made for that as long the game supports it.
https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay

[Glimmer]

Originally posted by Mumther:

Thank you. That let my kiddo see what I was doing (tho laggy) and they could take control, but we still couldn't get them as the second player. We were stuck in the "Lobby" of the game, not able to invite or add them as the second player since they were already remotely in the game. All we could do was play single player with both of us having control of the same character. Not fun.

Is that how these game work? Not really multi-player, just "watch me play from your screen" unless I buy the game again on their account? Isn't that what Family Library Sharing is for? Sorry - this is all new to me

Remote Play Together should let them play as a second player. There is another thread on the Nobody Saves The World forum talking about RPT so it should work.

There's a FAQ entry on Remote Play, maybe something in there will help if someone more familiar with the running the game that way doesn't chime in.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0689-74B8-92AC-10F2

[76561199517577427]

Originally posted by The End:

You might have a better chance to get help in the games own forum.

Thank you for the link!

Originally posted by The End:

No, Library sharing is not for making it possible for two or more users to play the same game on one license.

Remote Play Together is made for that as long the game supports it.

Ah - understood, thank you.

I still have the issue of RPT not letting Kiddo play as their own character, tho :/ UPDATE: Solved. this games doesn't actually let the person brought in via EPT have their own character, even tho RPT IS an option for Nobody Saves the World (!?!?!)

Thanks again!!

[76561199517577427]

Originally posted by Glimmer:

Remote Play Together should let them play as a second player. There is another thread on the Nobody Saves The World forum talking about RPT so it should work.

There's a FAQ entry on Remote Play, maybe something in there will help if someone more familiar with the running the game that way doesn't chime in.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0689-74B8-92AC-10F2

Thank you! I bumbled around a bit and discovered the issue of "the person added via RPT doesn't get to play their own character" is actually how it's set up for this game I'm NOT doing it wrong, this game is just .... **ahem** I'm feeling about this now.

Thanks everyone for the help. Now I have to decide if I'm keeping the game or getting a refund and finding a game that actually WILL let us play multi-player.

[SpaceBug]

Originally posted by Azure Fang:

To play games with someone that doesn't own a copy, you need to select and configure "Remote Play Together". Standard invites are exclusively for players that own a copy. This applies to pretty much all games on Steam that support both Remote Play and Online Play.

hey so uh, where do you find that? Is it in steam settings??? Or the game settings