Your Steam game should now appear on your Apple TV! You can use your Apple TV remote to control the game, or you can connect a controller to your Apple TV and use that. Click on this, and then select your Apple TV from the list of available devices. Once they are, simply open up the Steam game you want to play on your PC and look for the “airplay” icon in the bottom right-hand corner. To do this, you’ll need to make sure that your Apple TV and PC are on the same Wi-Fi network. Furthermore, to match its new found scope, Steam In-Home Streaming has been renamed as 'Steam Remote Play'.Apple TV and Steam games may seem like an unlikely pairing at first, but it turns out that you can airplay Steam games to your Apple TV! This means that you can enjoy your favorite Steam games on the big screen, without having to be tethered to your PC. Of particular note to Steam Link app users, Steam In-Home Streaming is experimentally available outside the home, according to the release notes. In related news, Valve has updated the Steam Client Beta with a host of changes for PCs, Macs and Linux machines. The streaming app performs at its best when users are hooked-up to the same or via a very fast network connection. If you search the App Store for Steam Link on your iOS device it might not be picked up, depending on your region, so it might be best to click the link provided on your iOS device, to grab the app today.Īs a reminder, using the Steam Link app differs from 'cloud gaming' as it relies on your own Steam account being loaded with the games you wish to play, and the source PC being turned on and ready to game. It seems that Valve has solved the Apple App Store blockage by removing the ability to buy PC games direct from the app, you will still have to do that via the computer client, or via a web browser where you are logged in to your Steam account. Thus a large segment of the potential audience for streaming Steam PC games to devices was lopped off.įast forward to today and the Steam Link app is now available on the Apple App Store. Unfortunately for Valve and Apple iOS users, Apple dug in its heels and refused to distribute the Steam Link app via its App Store walled garden. If you can remember back to this time last year, The Steam Link app had just been launched by Valve and roughly replicated the Steam Link hardware functionality on any connected PC, Mac or Android device - 5GHz Wi-Fi or wired Ethernet network required.
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