How to Stream PC Games to a Tablet or Smartphone

Having a gaming PC is an awesome experience. You get the best graphics, the widest selection of games and the satisfaction of customizing your machine to your own needs. We don’t always want to play at our desks, though, so lately it’s become popular to stream PC games to other devices so that you can enjoy PC gaming away from your actual PC.

There are a couple of ways you can achieve this. Steam, for example, let’s you stream to a list of pre-approved devices. These includes other PCs that have the Steam client and Steam OS devices.

You can also try to use a generic VPN solution, but they are not very well optimized for the real-time needs of video games. Luckily there’s a much better solution in the form of the free Remotr app.

So What’s the Catch?

So first off, yes Remotr is completely free. There is a paid version, but the only difference that makes is that you don’t have to look at ads. If you can tolerate the light amount of advertising you don’t have to pay to stream PC games.

The app is available for iOS and Android and has been specifically built to stream games. The list of features it comes with covers pretty much everything you’d want in a game streaming application and I’ve been using it quite a lot.

• Streaming can be local or over the internet
• It supports gamepads
• There are customizable onscreen controls
• You can use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, which is crazy cool
• It works with Steam, Blizzard, and Origin

See? I think that covers all the bases I can think of. So let’s look at how you actually go about making use of Remotr.

Data Diving

First of all, you need two pieces of software. The first is the app for your mobile device and the second is the actual streaming client, which goes on the computer you want to stream PC games from.

Just head to remotrapp.com for links to everything. Download both programs and install them. Once that’s done, we’re ready to set up the streaming part. Of course, do make sure that the computer you want to stream from has Steam or Origin games on it.

Registered Offender

Before you can actually use either application you need to register an account with Remotr. Yes, it’s a pain if you only want to do local streaming, but it’s quick and painless.

Once you’ve registered you need to log in on both devices.

Easy as Pie

Unless there’s something wrong with your network setup, you should see your computer show up in the list of streamers like this.