Can I download my friend's Steam Family Sharing games while he plays?
When my friend is playing a game on Steam, can I download his games?
Without starting the game of course.
Best Answer
From my own experience, yes you can. As long as the person doesn't actually launch any games they can download all they want. If you want some more info regarding what exactly else you can and cannot do. I recommend checking out the following links
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3784-QLBM-5731
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Can you play Steam games while family sharing?
Family Sharing allows family members to share games while keeping their accounts separate. Family and guests can play one another's games while earning their own Steam achievements and saving their own game progress to the Steam Cloud. It works by granting family members access to games on a shared computer.Will I keep my game progress if I buy a game currently shared through family sharing?
You'll keep all of your stats, achievements, inventory items etc if you buy the game for yourself, since they're independent to your Steam ID, as well as being stored onto your PC (or Steam Cloud), rather than the person who owned the game originally.Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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