If you are a new Steam user it is not possible to temporarily change your store region to make purchases while traveling. You will need to return to your country of residence before you can set your store country. We suggest setting up your account and your store region before traveling.
Does Steam Family Sharing work on different countries?
Technically yes. But it’s not that easy to pull off, as you must be, to not violate the Steam Subscriber Agreement, travel to your friend, log into your account on his PC and authorize Family Share. Then you can travel back home.
Can Steam games be shared between accounts?
Steam Family Library Sharing allows family members and their guests to play one another’s games while earning their own Steam achievements and saving their own game progress to the Steam Cloud. It’s all enabled by authorizing shared computers and users.
Are Steam codes region locked?
Do products I purchase on my Steam account have any region restrictions? In most cases, there are no region restrictions on products purchased directly from the Steam store.
Can you get banned for family sharing Steam?
Your Family Sharing privileges may be revoked and your account may also be VAC banned if a borrower cheats or commits fraud. In addition, not all VAC protected games are shareable. We recommend you only authorize familiar Steam Accounts and familiar computers you know to be secure.
Is Steam Family Sharing region locked?
For free to play games, DLC cannot be shared since all Steam users “own” the game. Any user may purchase, trade, earn, or otherwise acquire in-game content while playing a game, but in-game items cannot be shared between accounts. No, any region restrictions will remain in place when lending or borrowing games.
How do I redeem a Steam code from another country?
For a key you just need to launch up a VPN and then redeem the key, make sure that you are breaking the guidelines of Valve but they’ve barely banned people for it so you should be fine. For a steam gift you need to change your store country using a VPN. “Move” to europe, activate the game and play.
