Leave the tower at home: play your gaming PC from any screen
Your library, your saves, your settings: all of it lives on the one expensive machine bolted to your desk. The moment you are on a laptop, at a friend's place, or just on the couch, that power is stuck in the other room. Axiom is built for that exact problem. Its gaming mode streams your gaming PC to whatever screen you actually have in your hands.
The games are on one machine, and you are not always at it
A gaming rig is a fixed thing. Big GPU, loud fans, a spot under the desk. But you are not always there. You travel with a thin laptop, you want to play in another room, or the family needs the TV the rig is wired to.
Most remote desktop tools fall apart the second you ask them to do this. They were built to show a spreadsheet, not to push a fast-moving game frame without turning it into a slideshow. Axiom was built with gamers in mind, so streaming that rig is the point, not an afterthought.
What Axiom's gaming mode actually does
On the gaming PC you install the Axiom host agent. It uses your GPU's built-in video encoder, NVENC on NVIDIA, Quick Sync on Intel, or AMF on AMD, and runs a GPU-resident capture-to-encode pipeline that never copies frames back to the CPU. That is what holds smooth 1080p60 with headroom to spare instead of the choppy mess you get from a generic screen share.
To play, you open a browser on your laptop, type the gaming PC's device ID and password, and you are looking at your desktop. Launch a game and play. No port forwarding, no VPN, no second machine to babysit. The host does the heavy lifting; your laptop just shows the stream and sends your input.
Why the latency does not wreck it
Game streaming lives or dies on input lag. Axiom keeps the connection direct over encrypted WebRTC peer-to-peer whenever the network allows, which keeps the round trip short, and only falls back to a managed relay when a network blocks the direct path. On a good LAN that is genuinely playable.
It also separates your input from everything else. Keyboard and mouse run on a dedicated low-latency channel, while file transfers and terminal traffic ride their own reliable channels, so a background download can never get between you and your next shot. Bitrate adapts to the connection instead of stuttering when the link tightens. Native controller passthrough is still on the way, so for now keyboard and mouse are the play, and they feel local.
Getting your rig on it
The setup is short: install the host on the gaming PC once, note its device ID and password, and connect from whatever device is near you. Wired networks on both ends give you the best result, the same advice any game-streaming setup follows.
Axiom is in invite-only early access, and gamers are exactly who we want in early to push the latency and tell us where it hurts. Join the waitlist and we will reach out when your spot opens.