Steam Remote Play, a great tool for gaming in the pandemic era, is now much easier to use. Valve Corp. announced today that players can invite anyone to play with them using only a URL.
For those invited to play, no Steam account is required – but the Steam client (on Linux, MacOS or Windows PC) or the Steam Link app (Android or iOS). Only the host needs to own the game and have it installed. Guests play together over the internet as if they were at 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 co-op or competitive multiplayer modes, split screen or split screen. Even for some single-player games, Steam Remote Play allows a group of friends to pass the controls among themselves, just as people would do on a console in a real venue.
Steam will launch another sales and streaming event on March 25, showing Remote Play Together in action and how link sharing works. A Valve news release says that hosts will share links in the chat on YouTube, Twitch and Steam to get the public involved. The event begins Thursday at 10 a.m. PDT.