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Valve’s Android compatibility layer now has its official name, Lepton, and a cute frog logo. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Turtle@aussie.zone 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This made me wonder, with FEX couldn't Valve release steam for android? Steam library on your phone sounds good to me.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

They said they'll start with Steam OS for ARM via their partner program. Same as with their x86 partnerships.

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, you can do this manually, and actually play video games from steam. There are also a few apps that facilitates this by having configured this already. Like winlator. Sadly maintaining something like this is huge work, so winlator doesn't ship video drivers for my Samsung S25, but there are some other similar programs, like the Chinese spyware gamehub. Gamehub is aimed at spying on you, and letting you run steam games with cloud saves and all.

Thankfully, someone is maintaining a stripped down version of gamehub, that removes spyware functions. This is called gamehub lite.

What's the performance. Its not amazing, but its not bad either. Haven't tested much, only hades 2 runs in full speed, without getting my phone hot.

Also on the same chip as my phone, read dead redemption 1 for PC runs faster than the newly released android port of the game.

These examples are not very demanding games, other games will very much be a ymmw situation

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Given that they did have a beta for Steam on x86 Chromebooks, and Google seems hellbend to replace ChromeOS with an modified version of Android ("AluminiumOS") these days, it seems likely that Valve will also consider a release for that. I wouldn't expect them to make an official release for phones though.