I've been playing through XCom 2 and XCom Chimera squad with the controller, you can set it up to work as a mouse (Steam Big Picture is amazing). You also don't have to build another PC if your current PC is ready for gaming, check out Steam Link.Įdit: Saw your other comment regarding mouse games, I agree however for turn based/pause games that are played with the mouse you can just use your controller. I can still play AAA games on my rig in medium quality event ho the PC is almost 5 years old. Over the years comfy gaming gotten more important to me than beautiful gaming. I mean it takes some time investment to turn your living room in a remote controlled home theater with video gaming capabilities but it's worth it. I also use Unified Remote to control the mouse from my couch, also has a task manager which makes swapping from steam to chrome easy in case I want to watch streams. Got my PC hooked up to my 55' TV in the living room, with steam big picture you can basically turn your PC into a console. Of course, that's if you actually installed the server yourself and actually use the app. If you kill the process, you lose the ability to control the PC using the Android app. To be clear, this is not a trojan or malware. And it has other remotes as well besides the standard trackpad and keyboard, they also have YouTube remote, Spotify, VLC, Netflix, Prime Video, Screen, Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Plex, Kodi, iTunes, foobar, GOM, CrunchyRoll, File Manager (you can browse and open any file from your phone), Minecraft, Command Prompt, Restart/Shutdown/Sleep, Task Manager, PowerPoint, etc.

I've been using the paid pro version for years (literally, maybe since 2014 or something). Free version has 18 remotes, the paid pro version has 40+ remotes. You can download the free version from Play Store or App Store and the server from. RemoteServerWin.exe the server side of Unified Remote to enable the remote control.

It can't connect from outside the local area network. It's part of an iOS / Android / Windows Phone (really!) app called Unified Remote, which allows you to use your phone touch screen as a track pad for your PC (great for controlling the PC from your bed, like pausing a YouTube video) within the same WiFi network.

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