Steam’s Family Library Sharing is now released for all Steam users. Players who share computers can now also share their available libraries with one another, each earning their own achievements and saving their own game progress to the Steam Cloud. It’s all enabled by authorizing shared computers and the familiar accounts that log into them.

Read on for more information about Family Library Sharing.

We’ve made a change to the way Family Sharing works in the most recent Steam client beta, where lenders must now identify the Steam users who may access and play their shared games on shared computers. This allows lenders more control while reducing the risk of VAC or other bans resulting from an unknown user accessing and abusing shared games on an authorized machine.

Family Sharing is now a two-factor authorization process, where up to ten Steam accounts on up to ten machines may be authorized to share your library at a given time. Any of these ten users may log into any of your ten authorized machines to access and play your shared games. Additionally, users may still request access to your shared library by sending you a request from any machine where you've installed games.

To authorize up to ten family members to share your games, visit Family Sharing settings using the most recent Steam client beta update. Our FAQ have also been updated to reflect these changes.

SteamGuard is now required to authorize a machine for Family Sharing. Otherwise you will get an error message "Account not found".

Good news, everybody currently in this group should have access to Steam Family Sharing now. Thanks to your help we fixed a bunch of issue, but please keep on reporting bugs and providing feedback.

Check your email; we've just added another 10,000 more group members to the Family Sharing beta today! If you're new to the beta, be sure you opt into the Steam client beta to experience all the latest sharing features and fixes.

And please, keep the feedback and bug reports coming!