Steam Account Transfer via Will on Death Is Not Permitted, Valve Confirms

Just a few days ago, a curious user sought answers from Valve regarding a very niche scenario: Can Steam accounts be transferred to another individual via will? If you were curious about this yourself, wonder no longer. Valve has confirmed that a Steam account transfer is not possible via will.

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This question was first posed by ResetEra user delete12345 last week. Curious about the implications of bequeathing a Steam library to someone post-mortem, he reached out to Steam Support to ask the following:

“Hi Steam Support. This is a quick question to satiate a burning question in the back of my mind. I don’t plan on dying anytime soon, but when I do, could ownership of my Steam account be transferred via a will?

Thanks for any and all answers on this.”

A representative from Steam Support responded to the user within the hour with a very direct response:

“Hello, thank you for contacting us. Unfortunately, Steam accounts and games are non-transferable. Steam Support can’t provide someone else with access to the account or merge its contents with another account.

I regret to inform you that your Steam account cannot be transferred via a will.”

There you have it. If you were hoping to pass your account off to a loved one after your death, a will isn’t going to cut it. If you want your family to have access to your games, you’ll just have to get them set up with Steam’s new Family Sharing process instead.

[Source: ResetEra]

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