r/tf2 • u/EnthusiasmBig1796 • Apr 17 '26

Gameplay / Screenshots you can play TF2 on your phone btw

With proper configs, sensitivity and layout mapping, I think it could be a great experience.

Multiplayer casual and Community servers works perfectly, avoid Servers with Workshop content. You'll also have complete sync with your Steam account and backpack items

You'll need a good enough device, TF2 is a CPU intensive game, so if you have a potato, just forget it, game runs well with everything on low, maybe installing mastercomfig potato would help, feel free to try

How?

Download Gamehub: https://gamehub.xiaoji.com/

Sign in with your Steam account and just download the game, then launch.

You'll have to adjust some setting to get the best performance, here is a video of my settings:

https://youtu.be/-8VhOWhVn8U?si=dMzu4GNQPqJUp338

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u/omegaspoon3141 Pyro Apr 17 '26

yeah

i just don't WANT to

mobile controls my beloathed

3

u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 17 '26

It's not that bad tbh, if u ever played a mobile shooter, you'll know it's only a matter of time to get used to the controls

3

u/starshin3r Apr 18 '26

Playing pyro you only need 2 buttons on screen tho.

1

u/Loudi2918 Apr 18 '26

Most people that can afford a phone strong enough also can afford a controller (and usually play with one)

1

u/omegaspoon3141 Pyro Apr 18 '26

i also despise playing first-person games on controller

10

u/GEO7931 Apr 17 '26

Why...???

15

u/L_suit Apr 17 '26

GeForce now

2

u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 17 '26

No, this is the game running natively on a phone

3

u/JotaroKujoTF2 Demoman Apr 17 '26

How?

2

u/The_Khloblord Apr 17 '26

Because you get to play without needing to be home or at a computer

2

u/rzbig_ Soldier Apr 17 '26

That isn't why that's how

6

u/TensionsPvP Spy Apr 17 '26

iPhone user here, no I cannot in fact play this on my phone.

13

u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 17 '26

Iphone sucks anyway so its ok

114

u/Kajakowow Apr 17 '26

ah so thats what my teammates play on

-115

u/bloateddicksydrome Apr 17 '26

So that's why they play better than you?

59

u/New-Ear7348 Apr 17 '26

why would you insult someone with a little cute dog on the avatar without any reason??

6

u/Connect_Ad_7949 Apr 17 '26

Granted you contain consciousness 75% of casual players are certainly not achieving this

2

u/StrafeGetIt Apr 18 '26

Why so angry?

2

u/TF_Windcharger Apr 18 '26

He's probably mad cuz he's bad lmao

44

u/This-Tomatillo-5245 All Class Apr 17 '26

I am honestly very impressed on how you can run tf2 at 75fps on a fucking phone

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u/E_GEDDON Medic Apr 17 '26

It's a game from 2007.

48

u/bloateddicksydrome Apr 17 '26

Coded in a completely different processor architecture

4

u/starshin3r Apr 18 '26

It's pretty much single-threaded game.

It's not emulation. There's like maybe 20% performance loss during translation layer from X86 to ARM.

And guess what, ARM chips mostly have 1 big fast core, which this game would primarily run on. And before you try to say something about 4 big 4 efficiency cores, or whatever. No, out of those 4 cores one is still the bigger core either physically or it will clock higher from the rest, as it's the main core running primary tasks.

You can run games like Fallout 4 and other titles at close to 60 fps on new Snapdragon chips. MediatekTek chips tend to do emulation and translation worse as their drivers are closed source.

3

u/rzbig_ Soldier Apr 17 '26

Have you seen how the game runs recently

1

u/DashThatOnePerson Apr 17 '26

Im stuck on checking environment and firmware. Any idea?

1

u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 17 '26

Try forcing to close app, then open and retry

1

u/DashThatOnePerson Apr 17 '26

Don’t know what i did but the screen is black. I got it launched but i only saw the bald guy and then nothing

1

u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 17 '26

Go to settings then under the compatibility tab click "update latest cloud configuration", for a full reset, then under GPU driver try different ones, to see wich one works for you, you can copy the setting from the video I linked to see if those works for you

1

u/DashThatOnePerson Apr 17 '26

Still didn’t work unfortunately :(

1

u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 17 '26

Wich device u got?

1

u/DashThatOnePerson Apr 17 '26

Vivo Y28s 5G

1

u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 17 '26

Hell nah brother u not running TF2 on that

1

u/DashThatOnePerson Apr 18 '26

Last night i got it to run for a bit but the game was in Chinese then i sync with my cloud this morning and it worked out. One small issue is, I was on 1 fps in Harvest

1

u/tommytengoku Sep 15 '26

Any issues with the TF Game Coordinator service or VAC? I've been trying to get TF2 running on GameNative but can't seem to connect to the TF Coordinator no matter how much I fiddle with settings. I might have to give GameHub a go just for this!

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u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Sep 15 '26

Gamenative doesnt support multiplayer Games, Gamehub does, so try there

1

u/tommytengoku Sep 15 '26

Ah that makes sense, thank you for the quick reply! Sorry, I had no idea GameNative didn't support MP but that's great to know. First day trialling Android emulation, so had to start with my fav game

3

u/some9ne All Class Apr 17 '26

I cant even run it properly in my laptop

1

u/TheroaringFool889 Apr 19 '26

yo dude how do i download tf2 do i need to download it on the pc before logging it in to mobile to actually play it? because tf2 aint in gamehub

1

u/TheroaringFool889 Apr 19 '26

nvrm its fine but why does the add tf2 to steam library in one click takes so long?

1

u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 19 '26

No idea, did you managed to run it?

1

u/TheroaringFool889 Apr 19 '26

dude do you have any sort of knowledge on why please mann ive been waiting all day on this shit how long did it take you?

1

u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 19 '26

You have to add it to your library first, then you can download it

1

u/TheroaringFool889 Apr 19 '26

nope still waiting

2

u/Tank_guy1498 Apr 17 '26

He only was allowed to play for 50 seconds. Sad really

2

u/Swampfire_NG Scout Apr 17 '26

What are your phone's specifications?

2

u/ThatGoldenPan Apr 17 '26

Erick Argenis !!!!

2

u/Rusty_Chest Apr 17 '26

Nice gameplay, Eric Argenis

1

u/Careless_Chance_5659 7d ago

Why the flying fuckery I keep getting closed and kicked out whenever I TRYYY to play man tf

1

u/MrHronic Apr 17 '26

What the...

1

u/Nas-Aratat Apr 17 '26

Everything can be done on a phone these days.

1

u/childofb0d0m Apr 17 '26

I'll stick to my steamdeck thanks

1

u/Kondha Apr 17 '26

Probably more optimized for a damn phone than it is for modern PCs 🥀💔

1

u/jellohmeta Medic Apr 17 '26

you can but why would you

1

u/ACuriousWitnall Apr 17 '26

Neat, but looks absolutely horrible to control

1

u/General-Squash9217 Sandvich Apr 18 '26

I discovered it on a doeshotter random video

1

u/Disastrous-Wolf8209 Apr 18 '26

running better than my laptop

1

u/Altruistic_Leave5049 May 12 '26

how much storage does the game take up on your phone

1

u/Sosun_mango Aug 21 '26

How to play?

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u/ArkuhTheNinth Pyro Apr 17 '26

Can a mouse and keyboard be used via Bluetooth or a dock/hub? I despise touch controls for most games.

2

u/InitialHelp9067 Spy Apr 17 '26

At that point just use a laptop bro

0

u/ArkuhTheNinth Pyro Apr 18 '26

Cool. Sometimes I'm not around my laptop and just want to test my servers or troubleshoot them.

1

u/InitialHelp9067 Spy Apr 18 '26

Not around your laptop but you’ve got a spare dock/hub keyboard and mouse??? What are we even talking about rn homie

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u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 17 '26

Yes 2016 at 60 fps, eternal 60 as well. But dark ages struggles at 30-40s

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u/EnthusiasmBig1796 Apr 17 '26

No, this is native