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Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by pjmlp »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #119
pjmlp wrote: post #48

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This is basically Google's reaction to Windows Subsystem for Android. Note that WSL was born out of the first attempt to have Android support on UWP.

What's sad is that this Android support on Windows Mobile was actually really good. I had a demo device with an experimental build and Android apps were only as sluggish as... well... Android. A Microsoft run by a CEO with more backbone wouldn't have caved and started selling Androids.

UWP was shaping good, with Andromeda, Windows Bridge for iOS, XAML Islands, .NET Native, C++/CX, and then they messed it all up.

Nowadays better stick to classical Windows development, or server workloads.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by terracottalite »

bacchusracine wrote: post #85
marcodiego wrote: post #67

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> The current Android-on-PC landscape is pretty bleak; your choices boil down to spyware/adware emulators (Mumu, Bluestacks, LDPlayer etc) or Windows Subsystem for Android, Not in the linux land. Last time I tried waydroid it worked impressively well.

If only there was something for xorg that worked. Mate Desktop is not yet Wayland compatible.

You probably know about it, but in case you don't know: You can run Wayland inside Xorg via cage[1] so you don't need to use a Wayland compositor.

[1]: https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by GranPC »

bacchusracine wrote: post #85
marcodiego wrote: post #67

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> The current Android-on-PC landscape is pretty bleak; your choices boil down to spyware/adware emulators (Mumu, Bluestacks, LDPlayer etc) or Windows Subsystem for Android, Not in the linux land. Last time I tried waydroid it worked impressively well.

If only there was something for xorg that worked. Mate Desktop is not yet Wayland compatible.

I run Waydroid on X by running a Wayland compositor on top of X. Works OK.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by sureglymop »

hienyimba wrote: post #20

You can already do this on PC using the Windows Subsystem for Android. The major issue surrounding WSA was that it was too technical to setup for most PC users so we built an app for our non-technical users to solve this. Right now, Google building a standalone app for only Android games (people use Android apps fairly on par with games on PC) and then insisting on a slow rollout will most likely make the product go…

Is WSA even available without a beta version of W11 and without a Microsoft account? Haven't heard a lot about it since they previewed it.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by sureglymop »

jgtrosh wrote: post #7

Quite off topic, but some PC games are now on Android. See for example Space Cadet: https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android/releases Once you get to enjoy a proper straightforward PC game on your phone, most every other ad-filled Android game feels insulting.

Also SuperTux! Great mario-like game that I played on linux before it was available on android.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by Al0neStar »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #124
hbn wrote: post #120

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You know full well Steam's library is not at all comparable to what's available on mobile. There are thousands of quality games on Steam. How many mobile games are out there that are quality crafted experiences, and not just endless grinding to squeeze as much money as possible out of the user? I recall seeing a handful come out ~10 years ago, like The Room and Monument Valley. These days the best ones to come out ar…

Anyone know if there's a curated list of non-exploitative games on android? The only one I've been seriously thinking about buying is Slay the Spire.

This channel reviews mobile games exclusively:

https://youtube.com/@PocketGamerVideo

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by wzy »

dagmx wrote: post #125
diffeomorphism wrote: post #117

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False equivalence. The scale of the problem is not even remotely close.

But the problem is irrelevant. You don’t have to play those bad games, and their point is that bad games don’t make good games worse. I don’t get why gamers get into this tribal mentality of only one good thing may exist.

How will I know the bad games without wasting time playing them? Should I trust those reviews on the Play Store?

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by dagmx »

wzy wrote: post #137
dagmx wrote: post #125

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But the problem is irrelevant. You don’t have to play those bad games, and their point is that bad games don’t make good games worse. I don’t get why gamers get into this tribal mentality of only one good thing may exist.

How will I know the bad games without wasting time playing them? Should I trust those reviews on the Play Store?

How will you know the bad games on *any* platform without having some kind of trust in the creator or reviewers?

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by OliveMate »

haunter wrote: post #39
fendy3002 wrote: post #6

Are there any valid android games that's also good to play on android and on PC? I think of vampire survivor but it also has PC version.

Old console games that are not available on PC Dragon Quest games (1-6, 8, Builders) Final Fantasy Tactics etc.

Every now and then I go through a period where to recover from work I grab something quick to eat and spend the rest of my night lying about in bed – Like you know it's bad if you can't even stomach sitting up at your desk. One day I came across Symphony of the Night for less than a fiver on the Google Play Store, thought why not, and after connecting a controller to my phone it instantly became one of my favourite games.
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