Nearly 19,000 video games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a lot! I n fact, it’s more than hit the platform in any other year. But most of those games, around 80 percent of them in fact, went mostly unplayed, according to publicly available data.

Hit the arrow next to the big Install button, and a pop-up will appear. Select the name of your PC (in my case, it’s MagnaCarter-PC) and hit A. The button will now say Stream. Hit that and Remote Play will begin to work its magic.

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