Family View cannot be used to filter the titles from a library accessed with Family Share.Steam in fact requests only an email address and nothing more, other than a checkbox for age verification.Personally I would set up a different email just for this purpose so that in the future he could have access to it by himself without needing to change it, but for the most part it shouldn't matter since you can change it later anyway and there isn't too much valuable info sent there, especially while the account is still managed by you.īy the way, for anyone who happens in on this post after the fact, I'll share my findings.
STEAM ACCOUNT OFFLINE
Another advantage of putting steam in offline mode is that it will allow them to play offline games without kicking them out if you open a game on your account. If you need to download games you can always go back in online mode, clear out anything that might be needed, from friend requests to anything else, and go back to offline. Unfortunately I don't have much experience, but the route you have described with a second account for him seems to be the best to preserve his own stats into the future, I also suggest starting Steam in offline mode (not the friends list offline status, actual offline mode) for him so that he won't be bothered by eventual adds/community content.
It seems to me that the best way to do this might be to bite the bullet and lie about his age in order to make a second account (or maybe use my info or something to make a second account for me, whatever), and then:
Worse, all time he spends playing is logged against my account, and although we haven't seen this explicitly yet, I have no reason to believe it would be any different for achievements. Thankfully, it does reactivate when my son logs on, at least. When his account is active, using Family View, that means that next time I log on to my local computer user, Family View is still active and I need to deactivate it. It's still my account under the hood, which is the exact opposite of what we want. So that way, for the moment, I can filter everything except Epistory and let him go nuts. After that, I looked into Family View, because it seems to do what I want-shares my stuff with him, but only the things that I allow him to see. He isn't 13 and we don't have an email address for him, so I wanted to avoid having to make a fully independent account. Steam requires an email address for account creation, and furthermore the end-user agreement requires that the user is 13 years old.
STEAM ACCOUNT FULL
This worked, however when I purchased the full game on my own steam account, Steam required his local user to have a Steam account, so I guess that doesn't fly with real purchases.
STEAM ACCOUNT HOW TO
I've been playing games my whole life though and I work in computers so I'm familiar with this general space.Īs his first game, I downloaded the Epistory demo to help him learn how to type, and at first I thought we could just run the game directly from the file system as his local user on our computer. My son is actually far younger than 13-he's just learning to read and he's been playing Nintendo games forever, but he's really interested in computers and so I want to support him.
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