The beta will enable Steam users to play their Steam library in the cloud, one game at a time, like they can on their local PC. The Steamworks documentation for developers was updated to include a section on something called Steam Cloud Play (Beta). Nothing was explicitly confirmed, leaving us to wait impatiently.Ī few days ago, the understanding of how this new service could possibly be provided came to light. Liu says that the Steam they’re building for Chromebooks would be enabled via the Linux container in Chrome OS which would still require that device’s hardware specifications to support the game that’s being played, leading some to think that Chromebooks would eventually contain discrete Radeon graphics cards. Not to mention, many people have a Chromebook because they don’t own or choose not to own an expensive Windows device to begin with. Players were limited to their home’s wifi range which made it pointless to use the app instead of simply booting up their Windows PC. This provided many with the ability to play their Steam library of games from their PC on their Chromebook via a remote desktop type of feature, but it wasn’t a great solution for a few reasons. Then, we saw the introduction of the Steam Link Beta app on the Google Play Store. This came as a surprise to pretty much everyone because even though Chrome OS could run the Linux version of Steam and even had access to the Chromebook’s graphics drivers at the time via a Chrome developer’s flag, it was far from capable of handling any graphically intensive games. Back in January, we heard word from the Director and Product Manager of Chrome OS, Kan Liu, that the Chromebook team would be working with Valve to bring Steam to Chromebooks.
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