Steam Could Be Headed to Phones, Tablets, and Other Arm Hardware

Valve Has Quietly Backed Projects to Bring Windows Games to Arm

The idea is that, in the future, you could play Steam games on your phone, tablet, a laptop running an Arm processor, a range of VR headsets, or anything else using Arm hardware.

Steam could be headed to phones, tablets, and other Arm hardware

Valve recently told The Verge that it has spent years funding the development of emulators and translation layers to make x86 games playable on Arm chips. Work by developers both inside and outside the company could make Windows titles run smoothly on Android and other platforms without porting or streaming.Read Entire Article

Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow

Valve tells The Verge it’s funding Fex, a key technology that’s letting Arm devices like phones play Windows games.

Valve has been funding Windows games on ARM emulation "since the beginning" as it aims to "expand PC gaming"

Last Updated on December 3, 2025 SteamOS engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais has been a reliable source of information regarding the inner workings of Valve, at least when it comes to the development of the Steam Deck, SteamOS, and now, its new hardware ventures. The latest development is the insider knowledge that Valve has been funding FEX ...

Valve have been funding FEX to get x86 games on Arm Linux

It turns out that not only are Valve using the open source FEX for the Steam Frame but they have been funding FEX since the beginning of it..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Don't expect a SteamOS phone after the Steam Machine, Valve engineer says

Valve’s quiet bankrolling of open-source emulation tools could make it heaps easier to play your PC games library on a humble smartphone, though it sounds like Gabe-made SteamOS phones are unlikely to be joining the company’s growing hardware catalogue. In an interview with The Verge, Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that they’ve been funding the development of Fex – a free compatibility tool that gets Windows apps functioning on mo…