Steam users just got access to hundreds of Xbox games

Xbox is home to hundreds of games, and if you’re an Xbox owner, you’ll likely have racked up plenty of digital games through sales.

These games, which include many AAA bangers, are now available to Steam users, through a new program for Steam Deck.

So, it’s a bit convoluted, so bear with me while I explain.

The Steam Deck, which is an impressive piece of kit, runs on a Linux operating system, rather than Windows, which makes third-party programs tougher to run than you’d like.

For a while now, NVIDIA’s GeForce Now cloud streaming service has only been running on the Steam Deck through a workaround.

Yesterday, NVIDIA dropped an official program, native to the Steam Deck, which can be downloaded via desktop mode on the Deck, after navigating to NVIDIA GeForce Now’s website.

What has this got to do with Xbox, I hear you say?

Well, once you subscribe to GeForce Now, you can link up your Xbox account and have cloud access to many of the games you already own through the program.

This service allows you to run those Xbox games via the cloud-based PCs on NVIDIAs servers, giving you streamed 4K games running at smooth framerates, with all the ray tracing turned on.

If you’ve tried to play any AAA games on the Steam Deck you’ll know that it’s incredibly hit-and-miss, with some games looking atrocious, despite being verified by Valve.

Playing via this new feature will give you portable, depending on battery life, playing of your game collection over on Xbox.

Not only that, but those owners of games through the Epic Game Store will be pleased to know that GeForce Now also scans your purchases there for play on the service.

If you’ve been hungry for AAA gaming on the go, this might be the best way to achieve that.