Hiding Your Playtime on Steam

Maybe it's a 3,000-hour count you'd rather not defend, maybe it's one particular game. Steam offers privacy at every granularity: hide all playtime while keeping your library visible, lock the whole game list down, or mark individual titles private. You cannot, however, falsify or reset the underlying numbers — hiding is display-only.

Hide everything

Profile → Edit Profile → Privacy Settings → set Game details to Private. Your playtime, owned-games list and achievement showcases disappear from everyone else's view. Stat tools will report the profile as private.

Hide hours but keep the library

On the same settings page, Game details has a dedicated option: “Always keep my total playtime private…” even when game details are public. Friends can browse what you own, but hour counts stay hidden. It's the middle path most people actually want.

Hide one specific game

• Open your Library, right-click the offending game.
• Choose Manage → Set to Private.
• The title disappears from your public profile entirely — hours, achievements, everything — while remaining fully playable.
• Reverse anytime from the same menu (Manage → Set to Public).

What hiding doesn't do

• It doesn't stop tracking — hours keep accruing privately and reappear if you flip settings back.
• It doesn't erase history — there is no supported way to delete or zero playtime, period.
• It doesn't affect friends-only “currently playing” unless you also adjust your online status/appearance settings.