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Google Play Games for PC has launched in the US and 7 other countries. Play Android games on your PC TODAY (Req: Win 10 or 11, 10GB SSD, 8GB of RAM)

https://www.engadget.com/google-play-games-pc-us-beta-180621316.html
Google Play Games has arrived on PC in more countries, including the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. The app, which is available in beta, allows you to play a selection of Android games on your PC with a mouse and keyboard. Google started testing the app in Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan in January (and later in Australia and Thailand) after promising at the tail end of last year that Google Play Games would come to PC in 2022.

There are 85 titles on Google Play Games, as The Verge notes, though Google plans to add more. The lineup includes Cookie Run: Kingdom, WWE SuperCard and Just Dance Now. Those are somewhat notable games, but you'll perhaps find heavier hitters on Apple Arcade and Netflix.
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https://play.google.com/googleplaygames

Minimum requirements​

  • OS: Windows 10 (v2004)
  • Storage: Solid state drive (SSD) with 10 GB of available storage space
  • Graphics: IntelⓇ UHD Graphics 630 GPU or comparable
  • Processor: 4 CPU physical cores
  • Memory: 8 GB of RAM
  • Windows admin account
  • Hardware virtualization must be turned on


If Google were smart they would have made the program exclusive to Chromebooks to convince people to buy them.

But for those on the forum who are hardcore mobile gamers, you can now play your mobile games on your laptop or PC monitor with mouse and keyboard. With 85 games currently available and more too come.
 
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jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Hardware virtualization required - shouldn't be an issue for most people, but gives us a glimpse to the fact that they're doing containerized virtualization to accomplish this. Essentially Android emulation.

Also - only 40 games available? Boo
 

SomeGit

Member
The whole point is to compete against 3rd party launchers like the MS Store, Bluestacks, etc.

Making this Chromebook exclusive would make no sense, the potential marketshare gains would be minimal besides Chromebooks already support Android apps, it’s not like it’s been a market mover either.
 

Holammer

Member
I could imagine testing certain mobile games on PC, stuff like Blue Archive, Pokemon Masters & Arknights.
Windows 11 got similar support and perhaps other actors like Valve may develop such a framework for themselves. It would remove a lot of friction for developers.
 

Aenima

Member
Question is, will it run games better than android emulators that are on the market for years and can run pretty much all andoid games out there?

Can someone test the performance of a game runing on this, vs Nox and LDPlayer9 ?
 

poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
But you can already just emulate a phone. What advantage does this offer that doesn't offset the disadvantage of being limited to 40 games instead of all of them.
 

spons

Gold Member
Seems to totally miss the point that people play these games because they can do so on their smartphone, not a fucking computer.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
What advantage does this offer that doesn't offset the disadvantage of being limited to 40 games instead of all of them.
Ease of use?

With the existing emulators, you basically have to walk through the "new phone setup" screens then log in to your Google account -> go to play store -> download game(s). With this, you just download the app and sign in to Google. Not a huge deal for most people like us, but imagine trying to tell your parents how to set up Bluestacks and configure keybindings so that they could play Clash of Clans on their PC.
 
Anything that i should try out?
JRPG genre( or most turn based games) and Tower defense genre are great on phones.

Edit: Also funny enough I recommend checking out what's on Apple Arcade for a curated list of good titles to also play on Google Play Store.
 
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jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
List of games anywhere out there? Not seeing one... Just "up to 85 games"
If you click on the "Games" section, it scrolls through all the currently available ones... slowly.

aint nobody got time for that GIF


I parsed out the HTML directly and compiled the list:
  • OTR - Offroad Car Driving Game
  • SAO Integral Factor - MMORPG
  • WWE SuperCard - Battle Cards
  • 1945 Air Force: Airplane games
  • Arknights
  • Asphalt 9: Legends
  • Awaken: Chaos Era
  • Beasts & Puzzles: Awakening
  • Blade Idle
  • Botworld Adventure
  • Braveland Heroes
  • Bricks Breaker Quest
  • 叫我萬歲爺-少年黃飛鴻聯動
  • Cash Frenzy™ - Casino Slots
  • Cookie Run: Kingdom
  • Cookie Run: OvenBreak
  • Day R Survival: Last Survivor
  • Dragon Mania Legends
  • Dragonscapes Adventure
  • Dungeon Knight
  • Empire Takeover: Win by IQ
  • Evony: The King's Return
  • Game of Sultans
  • Gardenscapes
  • Hades' Star
  • Homescapes
  • Horizon Chase – Arcade Racing
  • Hungry Shark Evolution
  • Idle Heroes
  • Idle Mafia - Tycoon Manager
  • Island War
  • Jackpot Party Casino Slots
  • Jackpot World™ - Slots Casino
  • Just Dance Now
  • Last Fortress: Underground
  • Last Shelter: Survival
  • Lotsa Slots - Casino Games
  • Luna Re : Dimensional Watcher
  • 기적의 검- 3주년 혜택
  • Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
  • Open House
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: ToW
  • Pixel Starships™
  • Rise of Empires: Ice and Fire
  • Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade
  • Ronin: The Last Samurai
  • Ski Resort: Idle Snow Tycoon
  • State of Survival: Zombie War
  • Summoners War
  • Taste of Hero
  • Ten Crush
  • Top Eleven Be a Soccer Manager
  • Top War: Battle Game
  • Township
  • Undersea Solitaire Tripeaks
  • Valor Legends: Dog Rescue
  • Vegas Live Slots: Casino Games
  • War and Magic: Kingdom Reborn
  • War Planet Online: MMO Game
  • Zombeast: Zombie Shooter



jurassic park poop GIF by Diversify Science Gifs
 

SNG32

Member
If you click on the "Games" section, it scrolls through all the currently available ones... slowly.

aint nobody got time for that GIF


I parsed out the HTML directly and compiled the list:
  • OTR - Offroad Car Driving Game
  • SAO Integral Factor - MMORPG
  • WWE SuperCard - Battle Cards
  • 1945 Air Force: Airplane games
  • Arknights
  • Asphalt 9: Legends
  • Awaken: Chaos Era
  • Beasts & Puzzles: Awakening
  • Blade Idle
  • Botworld Adventure
  • Braveland Heroes
  • Bricks Breaker Quest
  • 叫我萬歲爺-少年黃飛鴻聯動
  • Cash Frenzy™ - Casino Slots
  • Cookie Run: Kingdom
  • Cookie Run: OvenBreak
  • Day R Survival: Last Survivor
  • Dragon Mania Legends
  • Dragonscapes Adventure
  • Dungeon Knight
  • Empire Takeover: Win by IQ
  • Evony: The King's Return
  • Game of Sultans
  • Gardenscapes
  • Hades' Star
  • Homescapes
  • Horizon Chase – Arcade Racing
  • Hungry Shark Evolution
  • Idle Heroes
  • Idle Mafia - Tycoon Manager
  • Island War
  • Jackpot Party Casino Slots
  • Jackpot World™ - Slots Casino
  • Just Dance Now
  • Last Fortress: Underground
  • Last Shelter: Survival
  • Lotsa Slots - Casino Games
  • Luna Re : Dimensional Watcher
  • 기적의 검- 3주년 혜택
  • Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
  • Open House
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: ToW
  • Pixel Starships™
  • Rise of Empires: Ice and Fire
  • Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade
  • Ronin: The Last Samurai
  • Ski Resort: Idle Snow Tycoon
  • State of Survival: Zombie War
  • Summoners War
  • Taste of Hero
  • Ten Crush
  • Top Eleven Be a Soccer Manager
  • Top War: Battle Game
  • Township
  • Undersea Solitaire Tripeaks
  • Valor Legends: Dog Rescue
  • Vegas Live Slots: Casino Games
  • War and Magic: Kingdom Reborn
  • War Planet Online: MMO Game
  • Zombeast: Zombie Shooter



jurassic park poop GIF by Diversify Science Gifs
Damn it was hoping that there was finally a way to play Marvel Contest of Champions without getting banned on blue stacks.
 
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