Some Steam users will be losing access to the gaming platform in the near future, as it's being sunsetted for the gaming system.

Google has announced it will be closing the beta of Steam for ChromeOS. The service will end on New Year's Day, 2026.

Steam support on Chrome OS has been in an experimental stage for years now, first arriving as an early alpha back in 2022. You needed a decently powerful Chromebook, and getting it up and running was bit more complicated than installing your standard app, but in the end it worked, and made Chromebooks feel a heck of a lot more premium.