Steam and Windows Games Now Run Locally on Android, Cyberpunk 2077 Hits 60 FPS

What happened

As VideoCardz reports , YouTuber ETA Prime tested it on a RedMagic 11 Pro with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and 16 GB of memory, where Cyberpunk 2077 ran at around 60 FPS on medium settings. An open-source app called DroidDeck is letting Snapdragon-powered Android devices run Valve's Steam client and Windows PC games on the device itself, with no streaming from a PC or the cloud involved. Google is an Internet and software company based in Mountain View.

Skyrim Special Edition hit a similar figure at 720p, while Hogwarts Legacy was tougher on the phone and sat around 40 FPS even with lower settings and FSR. Other solutions like Steam Link stream games from another PC, whereas DroidDeck runs them on the device itself.

It loads Valve's ARM64 Linux Steam client in Big Picture mode as a regular Android app, and Windows games go through Valve's ARM64 Proton with x86 translation. Projects like Armada instead replace Android with SteamOS (gaming Linux distribution) entirely, and DroidDeck needs neither that nor root access.

Key facts

• As VideoCardz — reports: , YouTuber ETA Prime — tested: it on a RedMagic 11 Pro with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and 16 GB of memory, where Cyberpunk 2077 ran at around 60 FPS on medium settings