Play Steam Games on Mobile Devices

[Bob]

I'm not suggesting the porting of games like Left 4 Dead or Team Fortress 2 to your phone. Mobile devices can not perform on that level. However, many Steam games such as World of Goo, Bastion, Waking Mars, GTA Vice City, even the Walking Dead and Xcom Enemy Unknown have become available on mobile app stores. So I considered the possibility of having these types of Steam games also available on your mobile Steam app.
Here's how it would work. Your mobile Steam App will have a list of the games you own on your PC, Mac, or Linux computer. Games that are capable of running on mobile devices will have a small indicator just like the apple, windows, and Linux symbols, indicating if the game is compatible with your mobile device. If so, you can download the game from the Steam mobile app and play from there. The game will not be exactly the same with some graphical and/or gameplay changes, though like universal apps on the iOS app store, it will be changed to suit the needs of the mobile device.
If this were to happen, it would also be interesting if you could play games from the save point of your computer. Using the Steam Cloud; save points, high scores, unlockables can all be transferred onto your mobile device and vice versa. So lets say I was playing the Walking Dead on my computer but had to leave town. I could use my mobile Steam App to play right where I had stopped while on the go.

Update: In light of In-Home Streaming, the ability to stream games on tablets in the vicinity (kind of like what the Nivida Shield currently does) wouldn't be too bad either. If touchscreen controls have already been created for mobile ports, they can be used for streaming as well. Games that utilize big-picture mode can use a controller connected to the tablet when streaming. Onlive has done something simular to this with Cloudlift, though that service is not limited to a certain network.
Also, I am sorry if this idea sounded naive and for any grammatical/factual errors (I wrote the original post when I was 14). I am however glad that this thread has remained active and has garnered so much support.

[Kello1-0-6]

I totally agree with you!

I will really like if there will be Steam games on IOS!

But i have android i will really appreciate if steam will have steam games in android as well!
the screen will be a little small in ios but in android the screen is really big! like 5 inches or something xD.

ANYWAY

i will really appreciate if steam will be in ios / android!
(i will buy it if you will need to buy it again in android / ios!)

I really think its a great idia and me and my channel will support this project all the way!

Thanks For Reading.
- Kello

[FuzzyMelon94]

Agreed

[Bob]

引用自 Kello：

I totally agree with you!

I will really like if there will be Steam games on IOS!

But i have android i will really appreciate if steam will have steam games in android as well!
the screen will be a little small in ios but in android the screen is really big! like 5 inches or something xD.

ANYWAY

i will really appreciate if steam will be in ios / android!
(i will buy it if you will need to buy it again in android / ios!)

I really think its a great idia and me and my channel will support this project all the way!

Thanks For Reading. :csgoa:
- Kello

I didnt mean to take android out of the question. Sorry about the misleading title. This version of steam would probably work better on android devices first because apple is not open to these sort of concepts. They have already denied Onlive to make it's way onto the appstore while android devices have been able to use it for a while. Either way I'd be happy to see this version of steam to work on any mobile device and would buy a new tablet just to have steam on the go.

[Крис_Абрыгайте]

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[[AUS] Dizzy_Zane-The INSANE One]

引用自 Kello：

I totally agree with you!

I will really like if there will be Steam games on IOS!

But i have android i will really appreciate if steam will have steam games in android as well!
the screen will be a little small in ios but in android the screen is really big! like 5 inches or something xD.

ANYWAY

i will really appreciate if steam will be in ios / android!
(i will buy it if you will need to buy it again in android / ios!)

I really think its a great idia and me and my channel will support this project all the way!

Thanks For Reading. :csgoa:
- Kello

I have a 12" android.
Also no IOS will have the capacity for the games. It wouldn't NEARLY have the required free RAM, CPU power or DirectX for many games. I know remakes but they change the game so much that interface between two platforms is almost, but not quite, impossible.

[Pastulio]

Thumbs up for the idea!! (maby they could make a deal with apple so the games could be sold like in-app purchases or smtn ^^)

[aFK Balthanos]

I support this idea in some form.

[Spam]

if this someday happen it will be awesome

[nelly frittata]

Hahahahahahahahhahahaha maybe on android. Apple would never allow another game distribution on iOS that isnt the appstore. Its not really in Valve's interest either. Maybe in the future they will make big picture to work with steambox, touchscreens, ouya, and other non-pc platforms, but that would be completely different from the current steam mobile app.

[ОпасныйБангКок]

wtf

[wRoAnYg]

great idea.

[The Salt God]

maybe steam can get on android?

[Erpeleichel]

That sounds like a perfect idea!
If it is possible and maybe if there will be a beta/alpha/etc in the future, I'm happy to test it.

[2denis4u]

I have a WP8 so i just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up

[NL<>Patrick]

would be nice