Making Your Steam Game Details Public

If a stat site told you “this profile's game details are private,” that's Steam's doing, not theirs. Steam ships with granular privacy controls, and the Game details switch governs playtime, your game list and achievement showcases independently of the rest of your profile. Here's how to open it up.

The quick fix

Changes apply immediately — reload any stat page and your hours will resolve. No restart, no waiting period.

• Open Steam and click your username → View my profile (or visit steamcommunity.com/my).
• Click Edit Profile, then open the Privacy Settings tab.
• Find Game details and switch it from Private / Friends Only to Public.

What the switch controls

• Owned games list — the Games tab on your profile.
• Playtime — lifetime and two-week hours everywhere they appear.
• Achievement showcases and progression on your profile.
• It does not touch your friends list, inventory, or activity feed — those have their own settings on the same page.

Per-game privacy exists too

Since 2023 Steam supports marking individual games private: in your library, right-click a title → Manage → Set to Private. Anything marked this way vanishes from public views even with Game details public — handy for hiding exactly one embarrassing title instead of closing everything. The reverse trick doesn't exist (you can't be fully private yet expose one game).

Then go see the numbers

Once public, paste your profile into the hours calculator or account value estimator — or just look up your full profile for hours, value, inventory and heatmap in one page.