That’s the goal of this post, so let’s move on to the installation process. Here is what the Steam Link looks like inside the box: There are a lot of common points between the Steam Link hardware and the Raspberry Pi. It’s only a screen sharing system, you see on the TV or computer screen, and can play with other controllers. It allows us to play our favorites games on the TV, like a console.īut this little box is not really running the games. The Steam Link is a small box, with USB, HDMI and RJ45 ports. Steam Link announcementĪnd finally in 2015, Steam announced new hardware in this catalog: the Steam Link. Steam OS is a Linux distribution, based on Debian, which allows playing Steam games on another computer.Īnd this computer is the Steam Machine, coming officially in 2015, and running Steam OS. In 2013, things sped up with the release of Steam OS and the beginning of the Steam Machine concept. They started by adding their software in the PlayStation 3 (for Portal2 for example). Steam also tried to bring its product on game consoles, with less success for the moment. Get a list of my 24 favorites games (with links) to play on Retropie, Recalbox or Lakka With the development of the Internet in the world, this concept has now been adopted by more and more players.

Over the years, Steam has brought a lot of technological innovation in the game distribution.Ĭreated in 2003, Steam arrived in a tough market, where the games were mainly sold in physical boxes.

Now, Steam has over 150 million players and 15,000 games in store. Like an app store on mobile, you can browse their game catalog, and then buy and download tons of games. Steam is a well-known marketplace for games. Steam Link historyĪs usual, I’ll start by making sure you understand the background of this tutorial. I’ll show you how to do this, it’s pretty simple.īut I’ll start by explaining where it comes from and how it works. It’s available on Raspberry Pi OS, so it’s possible to install it, to play recent games on the Raspberry Pi. The Steam Link is a product from Steam to replicate a computer screen on a gaming device (Steam Machine). We’ll see how to do this in this tutorial. Do you enjoy Retropie and small games on Raspberry Pi? ProbablyĪre you running the last PC games on your Raspberry Pi? Nopeīut since December 2018, it’s possible to play Steam games on your $35 computer.

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