It is a dream function in these times of confinement. Steam Remote Play Together, launched last year, lets you play your “local multiplayer” titles with your friends remotely, through streaming, even if they don’t own the game. Convenient and easy to use.
Since the end of last year, Steam has offered a pretty great feature that allows you to play games intended for multi-local only on the Internet. Remote Play Together, that’s its name, lets you launch a game from a compatible game – there are many of them – and send the video stream from your screen to your Steam friends (up to 4) even if they don’t own the game. Here’s how to do it.
1. Make sure your game is compatible
Nothing’s easier. Go to your Steam Library, select the title you would like to play with your friends, then click on the Store Page tab in its description. If the mention Remote Play Together appears in the right column, where all the game’s features are listed, that’s perfect!
2. Launch your game and invite your friends
To share your game in streaming, you must first launch the game and invite your Steam friends. Go to your library then start the game. Once it is launched, access the Steam interface using the Shift + Tab shortcut.
Then, in the chat interface, choose the friends you want to play with. Right click on their icon and then click on Remote Play Together. For their part, your friends will receive an invitation to which they will only have to respond to access your streaming broadcast.
You can, if you wish, go through Steam for voice chat… or better yet, use a third party video conferencing application to chat in parallel.
3. Enjoy!
Then the magic happens. Steam should easily spot your friends’ controller or keyboard / mouse pair, as if multiple controllers were plugged into your own PC. All you have to do is launch the local multiplayer mode of your game and possibly bring out a beer.