Facebook Gameroom as Steam-like competitor? For hardcode casual gamer

Farmville, Diner Dash, Pet Village, Restaurant City and Candy Crush Saga, this are the few on the hundred addictive games that facebook offer to us this past years and if you thing that is enough and getting tired of it, well you're wrong. 

After a months beta testing and name revision, Facebook finally launched their very own gaming app the Gameroom. As of now, Gameroom is only available for download on Windows 7 and above, yep no Mac and Linux platform.

So whats in the box?

After downloading and installing well it looks the same concept as Steam.

App with a list of available games just simple, with categories for games. But the only difference is the games inside. As you can see from the game list of Gameroom, this games are for casual gamer not like the games from Steam that is intended for hardcore gaming. So as for now, yup as for now! if you're expecting that this games are for hardcore super mega graphic pleasing with 4k gaming, yup you're in the wrong app.

Unity engine

In my experience for now, Gameroom doesn’t offer anything all that is surprising as games, its just a collection of all their games bookmark in one place. Games will be downloaded and saved locally if they have more requirements. As of now, popular web and mobile games like Candy Crush Saga or Farmville are inside web version with Gameroom.



Gameroom use Unity engine for all its games as part of the partnership between Facebook and Unity Technologies. The two companies have developing games since 2013.

Gameroom V Steam

It might be too early to Gameroom to compete to Steam but its still a good plan for Facebook to collect all their game in one plac,  just clean and simple collections.

Steam targets the hardcore gamers community but Gameroom target the casual gamers that is getting on mainstream now.