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Not just your house. Valve's family and friends sharing is head-scratching generous.
You can authorise up to 10 other devices to access your games.
Any of those 10 devices can play any of the games with only one limitation : a specific game can only be played by one person at the time.
The account owner takes priority, with the other person using the game getting a warning the game will stop after a few minutes ( inviting them to buy the game for themselves ).
Which other 10 devices have access isn't set in stone either.
That's... surprisingly charitable. I would expect games distribution platforms to fight tooth and nails against sharing digital games.
If you have good friends you can share eachother's games along with family and siblings.
I hadn't actually set it up yet for my family, so I didn't know the specifics. But that's even more ridiculous.
Though I feel like if it gets overused it might go the way of Netflix, where the "account sharing" got so bad they started limiting it to just a household. Valve isn't nearly as bad off or greedy as that, but that almost feels too good to last.
Its a wonderful thing though, because it opens my hundreds of games in my library to my children without having to let them use my own computer or deal with multi-PC account access. They can go off and play Sonic Adventure 2 happily.