Steam’s mobile app finally lands on Windows Phones - henrythadermly

Rejoice o' ye forgotten gamers, or as most multitude would call us, "Steam gamers who have Windows phones." Valve has heard our entreaties and answered with an official Steam app for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile.

The new app went live finale night; it's even so so new that the app didn't appear as a top result when searching for "Steam" happening the Windows Store. Searching for "Valve Corporation," however, did refer the app.

Why this matters: As we've mentioned earlier, Steam does not get users expedite trades and market transactions without a phone using Steam's Mobile Authenticator. There were some third-party apps that claimed to provide this functionality to Windows mobile users, but trusting a third-party app with your Steam account statement is insecure and basically fury. Thus Windows ring fans still clamored for an authorised app. Now it's here, and it looks pretty good.

Well, almost.

Active with Steamer's Windows Phone app

darklightsteamapp — Steam clean using Windows 10 Mobile's perch theme (left) vs. the dark topic (ethical).

Unrivalled small quibble is the new Steam app doesn't work well with Windows 10 Fluid's well-lighted theme. In my tests with a Lumia 950 careful sections of the Steam clean app were nearly invisible with the light theme enabled, including the Settings screen and chat Windows. That's an obvious design flaw that Valve will hopefully fix with an update. (Assuming the company remembers it has a Windows mobile app. You'd be surprised how many developers don't.)

Boilersuit, the Steam app looks pretty nice and is analogous to the versions for Humanoid and iOS. The Windows version, still, has utmost fewer options hidden buns the "hamburger" menu icon on the left side.

Along Windows, you make menu options for your visibility, confirmations, chat, the Steamer store, the ability to switch accounts, and the app's settings. The essentials are on that point, but options like inventory, groups, a friends name, friend activity, and Steam news are wanting.

Some of the missing options are still accessible, however—retributory not from the menu. Your inventory and subroutine library, for example, are acquirable via your profile page. You potty too get to diverse games-kin info such Eastern Samoa news program and forum posts by selecting a game from your profile pageboy.

But even with a minimal feature name it's great to visit an official Steam app arrive for Windows phone users.

Notably, this app is non a universal proposition windows (UWP) app. Most likely, Valve didn't deprivation to behave that since UWP apps work with Windows 10 devices only. Supporting Windows 10 Seaborne exclusively doesn't make untold sense when a superb collocate of Steamer users with Windows phones are probably running 8.1. Plus, Valve just of necessity this app to piece of work along phones, not PCs, tablets, the HoloLens, and Xbox.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/415445/steams-mobile-app-finally-lands-on-windows-phones.html

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