Tencent START

What Tencent START is

Tencent START is a cloud gaming service that runs games on cloud servers and streams the resulting picture to a player's device. Its app listing says supported games can be started without downloading them. After signing in with the same account, players can continue game progress across devices. The library is described as containing online, single-player, and independent games, organized with personalized categories and recommendations.

Listed devices include iPhone, iPad, mobile devices, tablets, computers, and TVs. The listed iPhone app requires iOS 14.0 or later. Tencent Games describes START ENGINE as supporting real-time biological rendering, dense plant rendering, dynamic tree simulation, and GPU-accelerated fluid simulation. Tencent Cloud says the streaming service uses Tencent-RTC and Tencent Mingmou encoding technology. For developers, its documentation includes JavaScript, Android, and iOS SDKs, plus APIs for game and streaming functions. Tencent Cloud describes Game Streaming as a one-stop PaaS solution for PC and mobile games and says its functions have migrated to application cloud rendering. Each concurrent cloud gaming instance supports one player running a game at a time. Listed purchases include monthly and longer-term VIP or SVIP cards, an eight-hour package, and student and standard VIP monthly cards with stated prices.

Who it suits

Tencent START suits players who want to access supported games through cloud streaming on a listed device and continue progress across devices using one account. Its developer SDKs and APIs are relevant to teams working with game and streaming functions.

Limits

Each concurrent cloud gaming instance supports at most one player running a game at a time. The listed iPhone app requires iOS 14.0 or later.

Getting started

1. Open the Tencent START website or use the listed iPhone app.
2. On iPhone, use a device running iOS 14.0 or later.
3. Sign in with the same account on each device where you want to continue progress.
4. Choose among the listed access options, including the 28.00 CNY student VIP monthly card, 29.00 CNY VIP monthly card, or 28.00 CNY eight-hour package.

Verdict

Choose Tencent START if you want cloud-streamed access to supported games and cross-device progress under the same account. Developers can also refer to its SDKs and APIs for game and streaming functions. Look elsewhere if a single concurrent instance must serve multiple players at once.