As an additional possibility If you select buy as a gift in your cart , you can also select the option to keep the gift in your inventory . Once bought , you can redeem it from your inventory page , send it to another Steam user , or trade it with another Steam user after 30 days have passed . Note that this isn ' t possible with every game , although I ' m not sure how it ' s determined . It seems to have to do with VAC , Steams anticheat tool . In this case you should also set your Steam gift inventory as private in your profile ' s privacy settings Your profile page Edit Profile My Privacy Settings <| sep |> I dunno how invasion of privacy comes into effect in a situation where you ' ve already apparently mashed genitals and exchanged fluids to the tune of creating a new human life .