Steam games can now be played on some Chromebooks

Chrome OS 14583.0, a newer version of Chromebook OS, is currently beta testing.

The big news is Steam support, but it requires an 11th generation Core i5 or i7, Iris Xe graphics, and at least 8GB of working memory.

Therefore, support is limited to the following seven models:

• Acer Chromebook 514 (CB514-1W)
• Acer Chromebook 515 (CB515-1W)
• Acer Chromebook Spin 713 (CP713-3W)
• Asus Chromebook Flip CX5 (CX5500)
• Asus Chromebook CX9 (CX9400)
• HP Pro c640 G2 Chromebook
• Lenovo 5i-14 Chromebook

As for the games available, there are 48 titles, more specifically these:

• short walk
• Age of Empires II: The Definitive Edition
• you are daddy
• Bloons TD 6
• Celeste
• Cuphead
• darkest dungeon
• dead cells
• Disco Elysium
• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Don’t starve together
• Euro Truck Simulator 2
• Factory
• Fallout 4
• farm together
• fishing planet
• Geometric dash
• Grimm Down
• Hades
• half life 2
• Hollow Night
• Human: fall flat
• kirbal satellite program
• left 4 dead 2
• hero ring
• Northguard
• Overcooked! 2
• Payday 2
• Gate 2
• Project Zomboid
• The return of opera den
• Reemworld
• Danger: global domination
• Sid Meier V . Civilization
• slay the spire
• Stardu Valley
• Stellaris
• tabletop simulator
• Castle team 2
• Tekken 7
• terraria
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
• Jackbox Party Pack 8
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• untitled goose game
• not inverted
• Vampire survivors
• world of tanks blitz

To install Chrome OS 14583.0 now, you need to switch to the beta channel. Instructions on how to do this can be found at Google support pages.

It should be noted that this is an early preview version, so there are a lot of bugs and the like.