Tencent finally lets you play Teamfight Tactics on mobile, but only at home

Similar to Steam Link, WeGame’s new streaming feature lets you play PC games on your phone

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While it is certainly good to have more options, playing Teamfight Tactics on a phone isn’t ideal. (Picture: Tencent)

Josh Ye

Published: 10:16pm, 15 Jul 2019Updated: 9:09am, 20 Sep 2019

This article originally appeared on ABACUS

If you’ve been waiting to play Teamfight Tactics on mobile, Tencent now lets you do it. But it’s probably not in the way you hoped.

The Chinese gaming giant recently revealed that it's bringing in-home streaming to its online game store WeGame. It currently only supports League of Legends, but that’s enough to get your fix of the popular auto battler mini game Teamfight Tactics.

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But sadly, in-home streaming means your mobile device needs to be on the same network as your PC running the game, so this probably isn’t the full-featured game streaming experience you were hoping for.

This announcement comes not long after the Tencent showed off its cloud gaming capabilities earlier this year. With this new feature, it looks like China’s largest gaming company wants to go up against the likes of Steam, which has a similar feature called Steam Link. Steam’s version, though, lets people stream games from PCs over the internet, not just a home network.

Starting out with League of Legends support makes sense, though. Not only is the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game immensely popular in its own right, it also houses Teamfight Tactics, one of the most popular games in the growing auto battler genre. Unfortunately, streaming the game on mobile leaves a lot to be desired.

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Among the three emerging auto battlers duking it out for market supremacy -- Auto Chess, Dota Underlords and Teamfight Tactics -- the League of Legends property is the only one without a dedicated mobile version. So this workaround, which can also be done through Steam Link or other streaming options, isn’t likely to make Teamfight Tactics look as appealing on mobile as competing options.