Family Sharing

The Steam store page includes Family Sharing among the features for TROLLHEIM: GNOMES. That is the library-lending feature, not a local split-screen mode. It does not help yet, because the game is Coming soon and has no price. You cannot share a purchase nobody can make.

What Family Sharing is for, later

When the game is on sale and someone in the household buys it, Steam Family Sharing is how another account on the same family library can play it, within Valve's own rules for one player at a time on a shared title. Valve's own family-library rules still apply on top of that feature flag. The useful fact from the store page is that the feature is listed, next to single-player, multi-player, co-op, online co-op, Playable without Timed Input and Save Anytime.

Sharing is a poor substitute for co-op. Co-op wants up to 8 players in one Dark Forest, which means each person running the game. Family Sharing is how a second person plays when the owner is not. If your household wants to be in the forest together, each player needs access on their own machine. During the open playtest, that access is a request per account, from join the playtest, not a lend of a paid copy.

What you should not expect today

Steam Cloud is not in the category list. Family Sharing will not move a playtest world onto a second PC as a cloud save. Saves tells you to keep playing on the machine that wrote the file, and to avoid quitting mid-save.

The playtest is free to request and is tied to the account that requested it. Lending the Coming soon app does not grant the playtest. Have each friend send their own request while playtest app 4584570 stays open.

A price, when it exists, belongs on price. Until that number is real, any site that says "share my key" is the same problem as a reseller. Use the Steam family settings only after a real purchase, and only with people you actually share a library with.

Playable without Timed Input

That feature sits beside Family Sharing on the store page and is easy to misread as a family setting. It means the game is not built around quick-time presses. It is an accessibility note, not a kids mode and not a sharing mode. Age ratings on the store page are separate: no global Steam age gate is set, while regional rows include a German rating of 12, a DEJUS rating of 6, and an IGRS rating of 3 that notes online interaction. Parents who care about those rows should read them on Steam, then decide. The game is still a survival forest with hostile Väsen in the playtest.

Verdict: Ignore Family Sharing until someone owns the game. For this week's test, each player requests access on their own Steam account. For a shared house later, use Steam's own family library tools after the price exists.

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