Playing Steam games on mobile

[𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 💜]

Guys, do you think it will be a good idea if steam has a different section for mobile games? /h1]

Personally, I would enjoy playing Mobile games from Steam and follow my hours, badges, inventory etc.

I mean wouldn't it be nice if we could download games in our Mobiles from Steam

(I don't talk about playing PC Games on Mobile but having a whole different section in Steam just for mobile games.)

[𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 💜]

For example, playing some of the most popular mobile games via Steam would let us have all these badges, hours, discussions, reviews, inventory... related to this game and they make the whole gaming more entertaining

[BJWyler]

Steam is a PC gaming store that sells games that are developed to be played on the PC. If developers want to make mobile games, well many are and they are selling them through the mobile store fronts on Android and Apple, which take their own cut of the profits. Why would Valve want to profit share with them?

[JacquesPatat]

steam games on mobile. nope. there is already steam deck. If you mean Steam store for phones where you play mobile games, nope. there is already stores on phone. Some have two or more stores already on one phone brand (looking at you samsung with your two separete phonestores, play store and store) which gives pretty much the same stuff.

[𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 💜]

Originally posted by JacquesPatat:

steam games on mobile. nope. there is already steam deck. If you mean Steam store for phones where you play mobile games, nope. there is already stores on phone. Some have two or more stores already on one phone brand (looking at you samsung with your two separete phonestores, play store and store) which gives pretty much the same stuff.

Yeah, I know but I think it will be a good idea to play mobile games with ur steam profile linked and save the progress here...

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by 𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 💜:

Playing Steam games on mobile

Guys, do you think it will be a good idea if steam has a different section for mobile games?

Personally, I would enjoy playing Mobile games from Steam and follow my hours, badges, inventory etc.

I mean wouldn't it be nice if we could download games in our Mobiles from Steam

(I don't talk about playing PC Games on Mobile but having a whole different section in Steam just for mobile games.)

No I don't think its a good idea for a PC game store to sell mobile games for a phone.

[Mad Scientist]

Rather not have them add the junk that is "mobile games" which is almost always the same few games repackaged over & over.

PC Games can run within Windows & Proton, its up to the compatibility layer for Proton or if a Dev makes a Linux/etc version. But to outright add mobile games to a PC video game store? No, definitely not, that stuff needs to remain within the mobile market. Only PC games matter here, and if someone has a mobile device like a Steam Deck it can run a lot of PC games as-is.

Originally posted by 𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 💜:

Yeah, I know but I think it will be a good idea to play mobile games with ur steam profile linked and save the progress here...

One of the biggest issues is people want Steam to be an "everything client". Mobile games are almost exclusively the same few games ripping each other off constantly, many of them with timers/cooldowns which would be unrealistic for a PC game store as mobile is designed to almost exclusively sell Microtransactions where the app is "free". At least the MTX in PC games usually gives you something permanent like skins and is almost always just cosmetic with no other benefits.

Sometimes it's best to just realize Store A and Store B are entirely different, with different goals, different business models etc.

[76561199540158642]

steam has tons of mobile games on its platform, some even have the micro transactions. while i enjoy playing some a lot of them are just not made for PC and controlling them can be difficult and labor intenst because they are ment to be played with a touch screen device.

certain games are even unplayable unless you use the screen over lay, as someone who uses blue stacks often in the past, i reserve sticking to blue stacks over steam mobile games simply because there is a wider selection and no back end steam resource hogging.

[TBS AlexDK]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

Rather not have them add the junk that is "mobile games" which is almost always the same few games repackaged over & over.

PC Games can run within Windows & Proton, its up to the compatibility layer for Proton or if a Dev makes a Linux/etc version. But to outright add mobile games to a PC video game store? No, definitely not, that stuff needs to remain within the mobile market. Only PC games matter here, and if someone has a mobile device like a Steam Deck it can run a lot of PC games as-is.

Originally posted by 𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 💜:

Yeah, I know but I think it will be a good idea to play mobile games with ur steam profile linked and save the progress here...

One of the biggest issues is people want Steam to be an "everything client". Mobile games are almost exclusively the same few games ripping each other off constantly, many of them with timers/cooldowns which would be unrealistic for a PC game store as mobile is designed to almost exclusively sell Microtransactions where the app is "free". At least the MTX in PC games usually gives you something permanent like skins and is almost always just cosmetic with no other benefits.

Sometimes it's best to just realize Store A and Store B are entirely different, with different goals, different business models etc.

A lot of mobile games are basically just assist flips, may look different, but all mechanics and such are the exact same

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by 𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 💜:

Originally posted by JacquesPatat:

steam games on mobile. nope. there is already steam deck. If you mean Steam store for phones where you play mobile games, nope. there is already stores on phone. Some have two or more stores already on one phone brand (looking at you samsung with your two separete phonestores, play store and store) which gives pretty much the same stuff.

Yeah, I know but I think it will be a good idea to play mobile games with ur steam profile linked and save the progress here...

Ask the game developers to utilize this for their games released on the various mobile stores, they have the ability to do this. A good example is poker legends texas hold em, the mobile version allows you to link to steam which will save progress.

[HikariLight]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Originally posted by 𝗷𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 💜:

Yeah, I know but I think it will be a good idea to play mobile games with ur steam profile linked and save the progress here...

Ask the game developers to utilize this for their games released on the various mobile stores, they have the ability to do this. A good example is poker legends texas hold em, the mobile version allows you to link to steam which will save progress.

Valkyrie Connect is another game that has done this.
Started as a Mobile game, but got a PC version on Steam.
Though you need to login via the devs account system to link your save data.