Is there any way to play steam games on a chromebook WITHOUT Linux?

[Lycanus]

I'm in another country right now with only my phone and laptop to play with, and I can't play my steam games. I just want to play FTL: Faster than light, which seems pretty runnable on a laptop. So just wanted to know if there is something other than Linux that will allow me to run FTL which I have paid for just today.

[shockedfrog]

To play the Steam version you'd need something that runs Steam, so short of a Linux install, the only thing that might be possible is some kind of emulator/virtual machine. I'm reading that there's an Android version of Wine, so if your Chromebook supports Android apps, you could theoretically try to run it through that, but I've no idea if that'll work at all or how well.

However, I think the Humble Bundle version of FTL also includes a browser-based version that might work on your Chromebook. That would mean having to buy the game again, but if you just bought FTL on Steam today and haven't played it for 2 hours yet you could claim a refund here, then buy the Humble Bundle version which also includes a Steam key.

[Wierd0n3]

In Theory, if you have a supported Chromebook, you can now run linux apps semi-natively straight through chromeOS. check for updates, and if your supported, you'll see a linux beta in your settings app. turn that on, and you can install most debian linux apps. (ran from a modified VM) 3 issues exist for now.

1. Linux apps have limited/no audio support at this time in the ChromeOS VM.

2. ChromeOS does NOT have Accelerated Graphics support. any game that is expecting anything other than 2d framebuffers is going to run at around 2-3 FPS

3. the best Chromebooks ($1000+) peak at 128GB Storage and 8GB ram. my personal one (Samsung Plus V2) is 64GB storage and 4GB ram. installing linux support is roughly 1.8GB and the steam client is roughly 2GB. thats BEFORE you even get to the games.