Steam Adding Online Play to All Local Multiplayer Games with "Remote Play Together"

[Tsing]

Steam is readying a feature called "Remote Play Together" that allows any game's local multiplayer mode(s) to be played online. By leveraging the service's current in-home streaming technology, up to four users can play together at 1080p 60 FPS.

All games with local co-op will support Remote Play Together by default, and nobody aside from the host will need to own a copy of the game. The feature will reportedly be available to test beginning October 21 when it enters beta.

Using the Remote Play Together Beta, a player can simply launch any game with support for local multiplayer, local co-op or shared / split-screen features and then via the Steam Overlay, invite a Friend to join their game for some multiplayer fun. The invitation is just like handing a second controller to a friend.

 

[magoo]

That is a neat feature.

 

[Eduardo_Domingot]

This is flippin awesome.

 

[Grimlakin]

That is actually really bad ***. I wonder what control latency will be like.

 

[Zarathustra]

That's pretty cool.

I don't think I own any games with this kind of local multiplayer feature, but still This is pretty cool.