If you ever wanted to play your Steam game library on a Chromebook, there’s good news: Google is starting to bring Steam to Chrome OS.
The company casually dropped the announcement on Tuesday during the Google for Games Developer Summit. “The Steam alpha just launched, making this long-time PC game store available on select Chromebooks for users to try,” Greg Hartell, a Google product director for Android, said during the keynote.
According to Hartell, interested users can go to the Chromebook community forum to learn more. However, it seems the company has yet to publish the post about the Steam alpha’s availability. We’ve reached out to Google for more information and will update the story if we hear back.
The slide shown during the Google for Games Developer Summit.
The Steam availability could help Google address a notable shortcoming with Chrome OS. Currently, Chromebooks are best known as low-cost laptops, often sold to schools—not as gaming machines. That said, there are various ways you can play games on them. This can include installing the Linux-based version of Steam over the device through a Linux app,