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On Thursday, SteamDB creator and regular dataminer Pavel Djundik tweeted<\/a> (opens in new tab)<\/span> a new discovery in Steam’s code: a “peer content” client\/server mode. His takeaway, soon confirmed by other programmers, was that “Valve is seemingly working on peer-to-peer Steam downloads on LAN.”<\/p>\n

Peer-to-peer downloads may make you think of file-sharing software like Bittorrent, but this feature isn’t actually about downloading games over the internet: it’s the opposite. The “LAN” element focuses on your local network, meaning one peer might be your desktop PC and the other could be your laptop or Steam Deck. After launching the handheld gaming system, Valve is clearly interested in giving players a way to transfer their game libraries to it without redownloading them.<\/p>\n