EA is also supporting the platform with titles like FIFA SuperStars, Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online and Madden NFL SuperStars, with Pogo-branded title Poppit built-in to every browser. Zombies, BurgerTime Deluxe, FarmVille, and RuneScape. “That’s one of the problems we wanted to solve with the Chrome Web Store.”Ĭertain browser-based games are available for the platform like Plants vs. “People want to get paid for their apps, but they don’t want to trust a small, independent developer,” said Sundar Pichai, Google VP of Product Management. Running within the newest version of Chrome, the Web Store supports several popular social games and the OS will work on notebooks, with Verizon providing the dataplan. Chromebooks typically don't have high-capacity storage drives but Steam support might force that to change.Google recently unveiled details for their long anticipated Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS. Also, make sure you get enough storage to hold your games. 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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