

Just connect your gaming PC and TV to your home network, visit the Samsung Smart Hub to grab the free beta build of the Steam Link app, and voila: your Steam library is accessible on your telly. If you live in the US, have a Steam Controller and a 2016 or 2017 UHD Samsung smart TV, you can try this out right now. That's right: Steam Link is ditching its limited physical form and manifesting in the world as an enlightened official app instead. It essentially allows you to access your Steam account from the comfort of your couch, without having to drag your gaming PC out to the living room or lay extension cables through the house.Īs convenient as Steam Link is it's about to get even better, as Valve and Samsung have teamed up to eliminate the hardware step in the middle. Steam Link, for those not in the know, is a little set top box you can plug into your TV in order to quickly and easily stream Steam games over your home network. They also have apps for Android, Windows, and Linux as well.Steam Link, without the extra hardware? I'm listening. Valve also offers Steam Link clients for iPhone, iPad, and Macs running High Sierra or newer. Point and click adventure games like Thimbleweed Park play great on the big screen, and more latency intense games like Super Meat Boy play surprisingly well, even over a wireless connection. I’m running an Xbox controller over Bluetooth and it works quite well. Many games support controllers that are Apple TV compatible, Bluetooth keyboards and mice are also supported. Here, I have an iMac running High Sierra, an HP running Pop! OS Linux, and a Windows 10 gaming PC.īig picture mode launches in my living room and I can choose a home.

This is where you can manage connected computers you’d like to stream from. On the Steam Link home screen the cog icon in the top right is the settings panel.

4th generation and newer Apple TVs are supported. To get connected with an Apple TV, download the free Steam Link app from the App Store and launch the app. The system requirements are surprisingly modest my older iMac running High Sierra runs Steam just fine.

To follow along you’ll need a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer running Steam software on your home network.
