There’s an up to date Steam app for telephones and tablets, everybody. That’s a sentence I believed I’d by no means kind. Describing it as “completely revamped”, the Android and iOS apps are primarily new and add a strategy to signal into your account on PC utilizing a QR code, distant downloads out of your Library, and customisable tabs. If you actually take pleasure in movies of swiping round on telephones then you possibly can watch Valve’s under.

Valve are touting the nu-pdated app as probably the most safe strategy to signal into your Steam account. That’s as a result of it makes use of two-factor authentication. You can now generate a QR code in your pc to scan utilizing the app for nearly immediate sign-in, too, and approve or deny common sign-ins from notifications within the app. It additionally offers you an inventory of authorised gadgets, so you already know who’s obtained entry to your account. Valve say they’re planning on bringing the QR code technique to Steam Deck sooner or later.

Like with Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass app, the up to date Steam app now enables you to remotely obtain video games out of your Library to your numerous PCs. It’ll additionally assist you to customise your tabs from an inventory of choices – I’ve changed the Store with my Library, for example. Notifications are straightforward to regulate too, so you possibly can select to mute sale alerts for those who don’t wish to be tempted to spend hundreds. You can learn the complete particulars of what’s included within the up to date app right here.

The outdated Steam app was, frankly, a bit pants. It launched greater than a decade in the past, and I can’t say I ever actually used it. This new one appears a bit extra like one thing I can see myself mucking about with, though the Store nonetheless appears fairly chunky and clunky when viewing it on a cellphone. I really feel prefer it ought to in all probability do the whole lot the Steam Chat and Steam Link apps do too however, hey, not less than it’s an enchancment.

You can obtain the revised Steam app from the App Store, Google Play or as a standalone APK. My apologies for those who’re legendary sufficient to nonetheless rock Windows Phone, however you’re out of luck right here.