Steam Remote Play, a wonderful tool for pandemic-era games, is now much easier to use. Valve Corp. announced today that players can invite anyone to play with them using just one URL.
For those invited to play, no Steam account is required – but they must be using the Steam client (on Linux, MacOS or Windows PC) or the Steam Link application (Android or iOS). Only the host needs to have the game and install it. Guests play on the Internet as if they were on a friend’s couch with them.
Steam Remote Play Together was launched in November 2019. It supports at least four (in some cases more) players in local cooperative or competitive multiplayer, shared screen or split screen modes. Even for some single-player games, Steam Remote Play can let a group of friends pass the controls to each other, just as people would on a console in a real-life recreation room.
Steam will start another sales and streaming event on March 25, showing Remote Play Together in action and how link sharing works. A Valve press release said that stream hosts will share chat links on YouTube, Twitch and Steam to allow the public to participate. The event starts at 10 am PDT on Thursday.