Steam recently just announced their plans for the “Remote Play Together” feature. This feature will let you play usual couch co-op games with friends in the comfort of your home despite being miles away from them. The feature was first revealed by Valve on the Steamworks website before its existence was fully confirmed by PC Gamer.

According to Valve’s Alden Kroll on twitter, “This will allow friends to play local co-op games together over the internet as though they were in the same room together.” This works by streaming a host’s screen to a second player. Remote Play Together uses the existing Steam Remote Play technologies and is designed for multiplayer and co-op games which do not traditionally have online capabilities. The Steamworks page also notes it will work automatically for “all local multiplayer, local co-op and split-screen games.”

Today our team announced another great new platform feature that will be built into Steam: Remote Play Together. This will allow friends to play local co-op games together over the internet as though they were in the same room together. https://t.co/jEZyGoXEfc

— Alden Kroll (@aldenkroll) October 10, 2019

The similar remote play feature had previously only worked with devices on the same network. This changes with Remote Play Together, as not only would you be able to play with different networks, there will also be a range of compatible games to choose from, since Steam has been quoted as saying “All local multiplayer, local co-op and split-screen games will be automatically included in the Remote Play Together beta.”

Users will be able to launch a local multiplayer or co-operative game, and using the Steam Overlay, invite a friend to join and play split screen style with them. Up to four players will be able to play with one another using the feature.

Performance wise, Valve says it “renders 60 frames per second at a resolution of 1080p,” that is, if you have a solid internet connection. It seems the main focus of the feature is to bring about a form of couch co-op to the PC platform. It’s an interesting and very useful feature, and i can’t wait to test it out with the lads. The Remote Play Together Beta launches October 21st

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