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Posted Apr 17, 2026 at 7:35 PM UTC

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Steam running natively on a Nintendo Switch.

In December, we explained how Valve architected a push for Windows games on Arm — the Steam Frame is just the tip of the iceberg. Now, Valve’s released a public beta of Steam for Arm+Linux (download link) — and one person’s already got it running on a rooted Switch! Can’t play games yet, though.

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