family sharing

[Dispenser Gaming]

does this feture work with shared games? does the other person playing have to own the game or not?

[MikeSharpeWriter]

Remote Play and Family Sharing are two different things.

"Family Sharing" will let other people who you approve have access to a selection of games and software, while you are not playing a game/software on steam. They will need to install the game on their PC to play. Not all games will be available, as Developers/publishers can opt in/out of this. Free to play games are omitted as they are available to everyone. Progress in games will be locked to the person who played the game. Some punishments such as VAC will be given out to both the player and the game owner.

"Remote Play" will let you steam your own game to another device. This is useful if you wish to play in another room to your main Gaming PC. You will need to be logged in on both devices.

"Remote Play Together" will use the tech behind Remote Play & Steam Broadcasting to let another player join your game as if they're sitting next to you playing on your PC with a joypad.

With Family Sharing, the other person is required to not have the game in question. With "Remote Play Together" only the host needs to own the game, the person joining does not need to own the game.

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by MikeSharpeWriter:

With Family Sharing, the other person is required to not have the game in question. With "Remote Play Together" only the host needs to own the game, the person joining does not need to own the game.

i think OP is asking this (as an example)

OP’s brother “Jake” owns Trine.

OP does NOT own Trine.

However, Jake Family Shares his games with OP.

So OP is freely able to play Trine, since Jake Family shares with OP.

OP wants to “Remote Play Together” the game of Trine with his friend Alice.

Can OP play Jake’s “Family Shared” copy of Trine and invite Alice to “Remote Play Together” Trine with him?

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i believe the answer is *no* since the wording says the “Remote Play Together” Host must OWN the game. And in OP’s case *Jake* owns the game, not OP.

Yes OP can play the game Trine himself because Jake uses Steam Family Share with OP.

But this does not count as the same thing as OP actually owning the game himself, correct? So OP cannot invite others to play “Jake’s Steam Family Share” copy of Trine with him [the OP], right?

[Dispenser Gaming]

thanks bro