If you're shopping for a Chromebook right now and thinking you might want to use Steam once it's finished and ready for the public, you'll want to keep the system requirements listed above in mind. The gameplay is actually fairly smooth on the Acer Chromebook 713 I tested with, paired with the excellent Steelseries Stratus Plus Bluetooth controller for Chromebooks and Android. It's also used for the Steam Deck handheld gaming device.

Other games use Steam Play's compatibility tool called Proton. When available, Chrome OS will run the Linux version of games.

It's a surprisingly long list, including Portal 2, Dota 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Stardew Valley, Terraria, Hades, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition. You'll also find a list of known issues as well as all of the games currently supported. Google has the full install instructions on the forums. Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (CP514-3H, CP514-3HH, CP514-3WH)ĥ. Follow the setup process to install Steam and sign into your account.There are now 20 Chromebook models officially supported for Steam on ChromeOS. Google still recommends an i5 or Ryzen 5 and 16GB of RAM for the best experience. Minimum CPU requirements were also lowered to include Core i3 and Ryzen 3 processors and 8GB of RAM. With the beta release, support was added for devices with AMD Ryzen 5000 C-series and Intel 12th-gen Core CPUs.

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