Hidden and private games¶

Some games are nobody else's business. lanstash has two ways to keep them out of sight: an admin can hide a game from everyone, and a player can keep its own games private. Either way the game stays cached, is kept up to date and can be prefilled; only its name, art, page and builds are masked.

Hidden games¶

An admin hides a game from its page: the Privacy panel's Hide game button. From then on everyone who may not hide games (players, viewers and visitors who are not signed in) sees it as "A hidden game":

• without its name, art or page;
• without its builds and build numbers (a build number would tell which game it is);
• in History, the palette, the prefill queue and every list, the same way.

Its size still counts in the totals. Admins see hidden games by name, marked hidden.

To show a game again, use Show to everyone on its page, or in the Hidden games list on the Settings page, which lists every hidden game.

Private games¶

A player can keep to itself that it has a game. On the page of one of its own games (owned by a Steam account linked to it, see Accounts), the Keep it to myself panel has Keep private; Stop keeping private takes it back.

How others see a private game depends on who else owns it:

• A mark is per player. It hides that player's having the game, never another owner's.
• Masked when every owner marked it. Others then see "A hidden game", as for a hidden game.
• Visible when another owner did not mark it. If someone else who owns the game has not kept it private, the game shows normally. It still does not tell anyone that you have it.
• Owners are never shown to anyone but admins. Who owns a game is left out for every non-admin, whether or not anything is private.
• Admins see everything.
• Marks go with the account. When an account is removed, its private marks are removed with it.