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jak May 3, 2020 @ 5:59pm

Remote play through web browser

Is it currently possible to, or are there any plans to, be able to remotely play steam games on a web browser? A steam link app for a web browser.

I understand that there are steam link apps for mobile devices/tablets and you can download steam onto a second machine and play off the primary machine. My concern are for the machines you are not allowed to, or don't want to, download on (i.e. a borrowed machine, public machine, work machine, etc.).

Any thoughts?

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce May 3, 2020 @ 6:01pm

No. No. No.

jak May 3, 2020 @ 6:03pm

To clarify:
This came up while trying to play jackbox games at someone's house. I own the game on my steam but they don't have steam. I didn't want to download steam on their machines but would have loved to be able to log into steam and remotely play through google chrome.

cSg|mc-Hotsauce May 3, 2020 @ 6:08pm

I understand that.

They must have the Valve mobile app or the Steam client for it to work.

There is no other way.

jak May 3, 2020 @ 6:12pm

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
I understand that.

They must have the Valve mobile app or the Steam client for it to work.

There is no other way.

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Thanks for the quick responses. One can hope for something in the future :-)

uphillbag15 Nov 16, 2020 @ 8:32am

They need to make it where you can download game from the steam mobile app other then the steam link app

cSg|mc-Hotsauce Nov 16, 2020 @ 8:34am

Originally posted by carsopg9:
They need to make it where you can download game from the steam mobile app other then the steam link app

You can remote download using both.

uphillbag15 Dec 10, 2020 @ 5:00pm

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
Originally posted by carsopg9:
They need to make it where you can download game from the steam mobile app other then the steam link app

You can remote download using both.

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No you cant

LhymeFruit Mar 18, 2021 @ 7:26am

NO NO NO POMAGRANITS NO

SuperDre Apr 7, 2022 @ 2:34am

Seeing how it's possible to play Stadia very well through the browser and Microsoft also has it's XCloud through the browser, it certainly would be possible for Valve to create a SteamLink which would work in a browser (on a device that is capable of also running Stadia/XCloud through the browser). I'm even baffled why Valve still hasn't created it.

Judgmental Amaterasu Apr 7, 2022 @ 2:44am

Originally posted by SuperDre:
Seeing how it's possible to play Stadia very well through the browser and Microsoft also has it's XCloud through the browser, it certainly would be possible for Valve to create a SteamLink which would work in a browser (on a device that is capable of also running Stadia/XCloud through the browser). I'm even baffled why Valve still hasn't created it.

Because there is no reason. Just like there was no reason for you to necro this thread.

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SuperDre Apr 9, 2022 @ 2:15pm

Except there is a reason, most modern devices support a chromiumbrowser of some sort which are capable of running streamingwebsites, but a lot of devices don't have a SteamLink app.

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drbob Apr 10, 2022 @ 2:40pm

Rainway[rainway.com] supports Stadia /xCloud style game streaming from your own PC to a web browser without the need for a client app.

I tried it out about 18 months ago and back then it performed significantly worse than Steam remote play, though it has probably improved since then.

The Rainway SDK is actually used by Microsoft[rainway.com] for browser based xCloud

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KDOXG Apr 25, 2022 @ 11:58am

Also Parsec already supports client access via browser, so Valve can implement a Steam Link web browser client as well. I'd like this kind of option mostly because of Remote Play Together, today you can play with any person via Steam Link mobile app without them having a Steam account, something similar for PC without the Steam app would be very nice.

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