It's unclear if the vast number of Chromebooks with chips like Intel Pentiums and Arm-based offerings will be able to join the party when the feature is finalized. In fact, you may want higher specs to run some games, like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, two games Google claimed work well with the alpha. Google made it clear that using a supported machine with a lesser configuration-such as one that includes an i3 CPU or 4GB of RAM-will not cut it. 'Because many games have high performance demands, we’ve focused our efforts thus far on a set of devices where more games can run well,' Google said.Ĭhromebooks also need to hit specific requirements to run Steam, including an Intel 11th-gen Core i5 CPU, Intel Iris Xe graphics, and 8GB of RAM. Google said only the following machines can try the alpha:

Not all Chromebooks will be able to run Steam, however. The alpha version of Steam on Chrome OS is currently available in the Chrome OS 14583.0.0 Dev channel, as announced via a post in Google's Chrome Developers Community.

After prematurely announcing that Steam on Chromebooks was ready for testing last week, Google is making the release official today.

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