Short answer
In Sheepdog Filter, switch off Gaming for your child to stop every launcher at once, or switch off individual ones: Steam, Fortnite & Epic Games, Blizzard & Call of Duty, League of Legends & Valorant, and EA games. Use Homework mode to pause games until a set time.
Block Steam with Sheepdog Filter
- Open your dashboard and choose your child (or Home Wi‑Fi for every device in the house).
- Go to the Blocking tab and open Games.
- Switch Steam off. It stops loading in the app and the browser within a minute, on every device set up for that child.
Want it only at certain times? Leave it on and add a schedule (for example school nights), or use Homework mode to pause it until a time you pick. Want to make an exception? Tap Allow for a bit and choose 30 minutes, an hour or the rest of the day; it switches back by itself.
The other launchers
The Games group has a switch for each: Steam, Fortnite & Epic Games, Blizzard & Call of Duty, League of Legends & Valorant, EA games, Minecraft, Roblox, browser games and mobile games. The big Gaming switch covers them all.
Steam Family
Steam's own Families feature lets parents set playtime limits and restrict the store and chat for a child's Steam account. It's worth turning on too.
Make it stick
Set Sheepdog Filter on the PC itself (Windows, Mac) and give your child a Standard account so they can't undo it.
Sheepdog Filter
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