Even whereas Valve transitioned its Steam consumer to 64-bit, its Linux consumer has remained caught in 32-bit land, but it surely seems as if that’s lastly slated to vary, with a brand new 64-bit Steam consumer for Linux lastly launching in the beta branch. This follows on the latest announcement of the beta RT3 consumer earlier in 2026 marking the beginning of the transition and promising a extra constant expertise throughout completely different Linux distributions.
The launch of the 64-bit beta comes alongside Steam’s new Achievement Sets update that enables builders to group base recreation, DLC, and different achievements based mostly on classes. There may be additionally a brand new achievements web page to extra simply monitor recreation achievements. Forward of the newest beta launch, Valve additionally responded to Epic Video games’s new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher beta with a mainline Steam consumer replace that resulted in considerably sooner cold-start instances.