To hide your recent gaming activity on Steam, you need to adjust your privacy settings to make your game details visible only to yourself.
Hiding your recent activity, specifically the games you've played, can be done quickly through your Steam profile settings.
Steps to Hide Your Recent Game Activity
Based on the provided reference, the primary way to hide which games you've played recently is by setting your game details privacy to private.
Here are the steps:
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Go to your Steam Profile: Access your profile page on Steam. You can usually find this by clicking on your username in the Steam client or on the Steam website.
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Click 'Edit Profile': On your profile page, locate and click the "Edit Profile" button. This will take you to the profile editing options.
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Find 'Privacy Settings' in the menu: Within the profile editing menu (usually on the left side), click on "Privacy Settings".
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Change privacy setting under 'Game Details' to 'Private': Scroll down to the section labeled "Game Details". Under this section, you will see options for who can see:
- Your game list
- Your playtime
- Your recent activity (which games you've played)
Select the "Private" option from the dropdown menu for the "Game Details" setting.
By setting your "Game Details" to "Private", no one else (not even friends) will be able to see your list of games, your playtime for those games, or your recent activity, effectively hiding what you've been playing.
What "Game Details" Privacy Controls
Changing the "Game Details" privacy setting controls several aspects of your Steam profile that are related to your game library and activity.
- Game List: Whether others can see the full list of games you own.
- Playtime: Whether others can see how many hours you've played each game.
- Recent Activity: Whether others can see which games you have recently played and when.
Setting this to "Private" makes all of these aspects invisible to everyone but you.
Other privacy settings on Steam control different aspects of your profile, such as inventory, comments, and your overall profile visibility. Hiding recent game activity specifically targets the "Game Details" section.
