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Furia 12 Sep @ 2:57pm
Steam Family excluded library - "This game is in a package with a game you marked as Private (4)"
why some games excluded in the Steam Family library says "This game is in a package with a game you marked as Private (4)" when the game itself is not labeled Private?

would be nice to have a "Private" filter option for the library and a way to tell what game it is packaged with that's causing the exclusion.
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Originally posted by Lemmy Winks:
I’m having the same issue. I basically marked my entire library private to try to only display kid friendly games for a separate PC in the basement. Now I’m trying to curate this library and only display certain games for family accounts, but when I remove some games from being marked private, I get the same message about being in a package. Also assume it has to do with DLC, since the few I’ve tested were part of a deluxe addition. Hopefully this will get addressed at some point.


I think I was able to get this figured out. At least it worked for the one game I tested.

1) On the left side bar select the game that is giving you the issue, and right click to go to properties

2) select the privacy tab (I think I read somewhere you may need the Beta Steam client, but I don't know the date on that post, so it might not be necessary anymore)

3) There is a toggle switch there to mark as private, and underneath that is a couple of arrows to expand the DLC for the game. I expanded that and all of the DLC was unchecked, but when I toggled the Make the game private and then clicked it again, there was a message about the DLC is not marked private and you can individually mark DLC private...etc

4) Check the list of allowed games on family sharing again, and assuming it worked like mine did, it should show up under the allowed games.
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V3LTA 12 Sep @ 3:40pm 
what do you mean?
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Furia 12 Sep @ 3:43pm 
Originally posted by V3LTA:
what do you mean?
- a game is excluded from Steam Family shared library. (can't share)

- the game is not labeled private.

- when I hover my mouse of the game in the "excluded game library" it says "This game is in a package with a game you marked as Private (4)"

- I have no idea what "This game is in a package with a game you marked as Private (4)" means.
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V3LTA 12 Sep @ 3:53pm 
is it a game that you bought in a bundle?
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Furia 12 Sep @ 4:37pm 
Originally posted by V3LTA:
is it a game that you bought in a bundle?
I purchase the game's "complete edition" (which includes a DLC) with 2 other games from steam.

the other 2 games are not in private and is in the "included" library of Steam Family.

the only reason I can think of... the DLC is treated as a separate game that got labeled as Private? (without a way to remove the "Private" label) since the DLC doesn't show up under the "DLC" tab of the base game.
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V3LTA 12 Sep @ 5:02pm 
I have a lot of games and my girlfriend can play 98% of my games with all the dlc's.. that's really weird..

Never seen anything like this before...
Only thing i could imagine is if he or she has some content restrictions turned on?

With insurgency sandstorm i coudnt see any of the dlcs i owned. But thats a different thing pretty sure?

Might be worth checking maybe
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Furia 12 Sep @ 5:52pm 
Originally posted by V3LTA:
I have a lot of games and my girlfriend can play 98% of my games with all the dlc's.. that's really weird..

Never seen anything like this before...
Only thing i could imagine is if he or she has some content restrictions turned on?

With insurgency sandstorm i coudnt see any of the dlcs i owned. But thats a different thing pretty sure?

Might be worth checking maybe

yea... I am just testing out the new Steam Family sharing function on my own library.

I have 3 games like that. not all have purchased DLC. one of them is resident evil 0 ???

I don't understand *shrugs* lol
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Lemmy Winks 23 Sep @ 6:28am 
I’m having the same issue. I basically marked my entire library private to try to only display kid friendly games for a separate PC in the basement. Now I’m trying to curate this library and only display certain games for family accounts, but when I remove some games from being marked private, I get the same message about being in a package. Also assume it has to do with DLC, since the few I’ve tested were part of a deluxe addition. Hopefully this will get addressed at some point.


I think I was able to get this figured out. At least it worked for the one game I tested.

1) On the left side bar select the game that is giving you the issue, and right click to go to properties

2) select the privacy tab (I think I read somewhere you may need the Beta Steam client, but I don't know the date on that post, so it might not be necessary anymore)

3) There is a toggle switch there to mark as private, and underneath that is a couple of arrows to expand the DLC for the game. I expanded that and all of the DLC was unchecked, but when I toggled the Make the game private and then clicked it again, there was a message about the DLC is not marked private and you can individually mark DLC private...etc

4) Check the list of allowed games on family sharing again, and assuming it worked like mine did, it should show up under the allowed games.
Last edited by Lemmy Winks; 23 Sep @ 8:01am
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Furia 23 Sep @ 9:23am 
Originally posted by Lemmy Winks:
I’m having the same issue. I basically marked my entire library private to try to only display kid friendly games for a separate PC in the basement. Now I’m trying to curate this library and only display certain games for family accounts, but when I remove some games from being marked private, I get the same message about being in a package. Also assume it has to do with DLC, since the few I’ve tested were part of a deluxe addition. Hopefully this will get addressed at some point.


I think I was able to get this figured out. At least it worked for the one game I tested.

1) On the left side bar select the game that is giving you the issue, and right click to go to properties

2) select the privacy tab (I think I read somewhere you may need the Beta Steam client, but I don't know the date on that post, so it might not be necessary anymore)

3) There is a toggle switch there to mark as private, and underneath that is a couple of arrows to expand the DLC for the game. I expanded that and all of the DLC was unchecked, but when I toggled the Make the game private and then clicked it again, there was a message about the DLC is not marked private and you can individually mark DLC private...etc

4) Check the list of allowed games on family sharing again, and assuming it worked like mine did, it should show up under the allowed games.
that worked for me. thank you & well done.

one of these "value" that gets hidden behind layers of UI.
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