Valve also offers Steam Link clients for iPhone, iPad, and Macs running High Sierra or newer. Point and click adventure games like Thimbleweed Park play great on the big screen, and more latency intense games like Super Meat Boy play surprisingly well, even over a wireless connection. I’m running an Xbox controller over Bluetooth and it works quite well. Many games support controllers that are Apple TV compatible, Bluetooth keyboards and mice are also supported.

Here, I have an iMac running High Sierra, an HP running Pop! OS Linux, and a Windows 10 gaming PC.īig picture mode launches in my living room and I can choose a home. This is where you can manage connected computers you’d like to stream from.

On the Steam Link home screen the cog icon in the top right is the settings panel. 4th generation and newer Apple TVs are supported. To get connected with an Apple TV, download the free Steam Link app from the App Store and launch the app. The system requirements are surprisingly modest my older iMac running High Sierra runs Steam just fine. That’s especially disappointing considering how well beta versions worked.To follow along you’ll need a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer running Steam software on your home network. It seems Apple isn’t interested in the iPad being a place where you can play Steam games. The big difference with Steam Link is that it was optimized for playing Steam video games. TeamViewer and Screens give you remote access to your Mac desktop, too. There are several VNC apps available, like VNC Viewer for example. The ruling could potentially make sense if there weren’t already other apps already available that let you remotely view your Mac, which is just what Steam Link does. That means the app, which was initially approved, won’t be coming to the App Store any time soon, if ever.

Valve appealed the ruling, but was ultimately rejected. Valve press statement on the Steam Link app for iOS being rejected by Apple. Apple initially approved the app in early May, but quickly reversed course citing App Store guidelines prohibiting “business conflicts.” The Steam Link app acts as a sort of conduit so you can play desktop computer games on other devices. The reason Apple gave was that Steam Link posed a business conflict. Don’t hold your breath for Valve’s Steam Link app for iOS because Apple rejected it from the App Store.

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