One of the most anticipated features being added to the very popular Steam service has easily been the ability to share your library of games amongst your family in what Valve is calling Steam Family Sharing. This new feature has been in beta testing for the last few month or so, but Valve is happy to announce that it is now available to everyone.
Steam Family Sharing is pretty much what its name indicates, by allowing you to share your Steam library with your family, though really you can technically do it with about anyone.
Steam Family Library Sharing allows family members and their guests to play one another’s games while earning their own Steam achievements and saving their own game progress to the Steam Cloud. It’s all enabled by authorizing shared computers and users.
See a family member’s installed game that you want to play? Send them a request to authorize you. Once authorized, their library of Steam games becomes available for you to access, download and play.
For more information on this new feature, check out the FAQ and more right here.