Beginning with Chrome OS 108.0.5359.24, the Beta channel will include an early,
beta-quality version of Steam on ChromeOS for a set of recent Chromebooks.
If you have one of these Chromebooks and decide to give it a try, please send your feedback,
we are in active development and want to incorporate as much user input as possible.
What do we mean by beta?
Major issues affecting the whole system should be uncommon,
and hundreds of Steam games are now playable on a wider variety of Chromebooks.
However, many other games do not run or run poorly,
parts of the user experience are not release-quality,
and some OS-level features are still in development (see Known Issues).
Supported Devices
Because many games have high performance demands, we’ve focused our efforts thus
far on a set of devices where more games can run well.
Currently, Steam can be enabled in the beta channel on configurations of these Chromebooks
with Core i3/Ryzen 3 or higher CPUs and at least 8GB of RAM:
- Acer Chromebook 514 (CB514-1W)
- Acer Chromebook 515 (CB515-1W)
- Acer Chromebook 516 GE
- Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (CP514-3H, CP514-3HH, CP514-3WH)
- Acer Chromebook Spin 713 (CP713-3W)
- Acer Chromebook Spin 714 (CP714-1WN)
- Acer Chromebook Vero 514
- ASUS Chromebook CX9 (CX9400)
- ASUS Chromebook Flip CX5 (CX5500)
- ASUS Chromebook Flip CX5 (CX5601)
- ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip
- Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition
- HP Elite c640 14 inch G3 Chromebook
- HP Elite c645 G2 Chromebook
- HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook
- HP Pro c640 G2 Chromebook
- IdeaPad Gaming Chromebook 16
- Lenovo 5i-14 Chromebook
- Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook 14
- Lenovo ThinkPad C14
This list will be updated as new models and configurations are enabled.
Instructions
- On your supported Chromebook,
switch to Beta channel. - After updating, navigate to chrome://flags. Set #borealis-enabled to Enabled.
- After restarting, open the ChromeOS launcher, search for Steam, and select the top result.
- Follow the setup flow to install Steam.
- Log in with your Steam account and start playing!
If for whatever reason searching for Steam in the launcher doesn’t work,
you can open a crosh terminal with ctrl+alt+t and enter insert_coin.
We recommend trying games from the list below, as not all games currently work
well. Rest assured we are actively working to support as many titles as
possible.
If you encounter issues, first check the known issues list below, then
file feedback with a
description of your issue and “#steam” so we can triage it quickly.
Known Issues
These are some issues you may encounter when using Steam on Chrome OS:
Please report any other issues you see via the Send Feedback dialog with tag
“#steam”.
Game List
These are some games that we’ve tried ourselves and think you might enjoy. Some
will require enabling Steam Play in order to install (see below), others may
work better on models with hig
