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Steam Link, currently at version 1.3.24 and offered by Valve Corporation across six incremental releases, is a network-streaming utility that re-casts the entire Steam gaming session from a host PC to a secondary screen. By encoding the host’s video and input signals in real time, the application lets players continue titles on a mobile handset, smart television, VR headset or another desktop situated anywhere in the home—or, with adequate bandwidth, across the wider Internet—without relocating the workstation itself. The software is therefore catalogued under Remote Gaming / Game Streaming tools rather than as a game client, since no local installation of the played content is required on the receiving device. Typical use cases include couch play where the keyboard-and-mouse rig stays in another room, impromptu portable sessions on a tablet, big-screen co-operative displays in living-room setups, and low-latency VR freedom when a tether to the host is impractical. A recent extension, Remote Play Together, broadens the remit further: invitees who do not own a copy of a title can join the host’s session simply by clicking a web link, effectively turning local-only multiplayer games into online experiences. The underlying protocol adapts resolution, frame rate and bitrate to prevailing network conditions, while hardware encoding on modern GPUs keeps host overhead minimal. Across its half-dozen updates the program has added H.265 support, touch-controller overlays, wake-on-LAN reliability fixes and broader Android TV compatibility, all reflected in the present 1.3.24 build. Steam Link is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads supplied through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always serving the newest release and enabling batch installation alongside other applications.
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