![]() ![]() ![]() This will launch a desktop version of the SteamOS. Switch your Steam Deck to desktop mode by hitting the Steam button, selecting Power, and then hitting Switch to Desktop. Install Microsoft Edge on your Steam Deck Hit Power and then Switch to Desktop. ![]() But with a little patience and technical savvy, you’ll be able to get Game Pass working on a Steam Deck. It takes a bit of work to convince Valve’s handheld to run these games, though, and the process is a bit intimidating. (Microsoft continually increases its Cloud Gaming offerings - as of this writing, almost 370 games have such support.) To clarify: you can’t actually install any Game Pass games on the Steam Deck, but you can install a browser that runs Cloud Gaming - which will allow you to stream most games from the Game Pass library. And that means you can trick it into playing (most) Game Pass games through a browser with Xbox Cloud Gaming. The SteamOS running on your Steam Deck is built on a Linux distro, which means it’s really just a handheld computer. ![]() Over at Microsoft, a Game Pass Ultimate subscription gets you access to not quite 500 games from the Xbox catalogue. Someday we'll play our Game Pass games on the Steam Deck, but today it's not worth the effort.With a Steam Deck in your hands, you’ll have access to your entire Steam library whenever and wherever you want. There are workarounds if you really want to dig into Linux and get your hands dirty, but for now it's best to wait. Once that issue is fixed, you'll be able to stream loads of Game Pass games to the Steam Deck, but for now streaming on the Deck is not an easy process. Xbox Cloud works in Chrome, but there's currently still an unresolved issue with Chrome on the Steam Deck preventing the browser from 'seeing' the Deck's controls. Microsoft's Xbox Cloud service (opens in new tab), which is part of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, lets you stream games from remote Xbox Series X hardware in the cloud to a PC or mobile device. Streaming via XCloud won't work until Chrome gets an update Until we can dual boot Windows on the Steam Deck, there's really only going to be one option for getting Game Pass games on the Deck: streaming them. But for Microsoft, that would require a significant rebuild of how Game Pass functions. Maybe we'll see Game Pass available through Steam someday-Valve's Gabe Newell told us they're open to the idea. ![]()
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