playing skyrim v (se) on android

[normfielding]

having trouble setting up skyrim special edetion on android phone. i installed the steam app. got the wirless paddle working but cant figure out how to play. do i need to download the game to the phone? how too do it?

[alexander_dougherty]

Just checked, and as I thought, skyrim shouldn't play on a phone, a site says shadowlands is the closest to skyrim that will work on a phone.

I have heard of people getting it to work on a tablet, but never a phone, and even a laptop can struggle. If you want a portable version, then the Nintendo Switch has a version, and as with all their games, it can be played on the go.

[normfielding]

thanks alex

[Lothic]

android is based on a linux (or unix? whatever.. not windows), so unless you actually run the game on a pc and stream it onto your phone, it will not run

[Bomb Bloke]

You can get a Surface with pretty much the same processor as you'd find in a standard PC. Just about any other tablet / phone would have an ARM processor, which Skyrim isn't compiled for - the only way you'd be able to play the game on one of those would be through virtualisation software, and the performance penalty associated with that is pretty huge.

A less "direct" method would be to play the game through a tablet, using remote desktop software to stream input and output to and from a "real" computer running the actual game. Just for giggles, I "played" Diablo II on an old iPhone 3G that way, once upon a time - it was good for a laugh, but the lag was obscene.