Google Stadia players can share games with other members of their Google family group starting today. If you bought a game or claimed it through Stadia Pro, other members of the group can play it on their own Stadia account.
You can switch on sharing through the Family settings menu. There’s an option to automatically share every game from your Stadia account, or you pick and choose which ones other members of the group can fire up. You can turn on or off family access to a certain game from its detail page.
Family members won’t need a Stadia Pro plan to play games you’ve claimed with your subscription. However, if you cancel your Stadia Pro membership, they’ll lose access to those games as well.
To enable sharing, you’ll obviously need a Family group set up in your Google account (if you don’t already have one, you can set one up from the Play Store ? Account ? Family). You’ll also have to set up a shared payment method that anyone in your group can use to buy games. Google says that’s to verify that you know and trust the people in your family group, and so safeguard against random people sharing games with each other.
You can choose to either automatically share your entire library including add-ons, DLC, and even your redeemed Pro games, even if your other family group members aren’t Pro subscribers or manually pick which games you want to share. You can also set up parental controls to restrict access to games at certain age ratings.
Google is rolling out the feature gradually, and it’ll take a week or so before it’s live for all Stadia users.
