Google Play Games: how to play Android games on PC

It is also possible to invite your contacts to play multiplayer games together, compare your performance, take up challenges, share your exploits, etc.

Google Play Games

Google Play Games is a free mobile video game catalog available in the form of a mobile application for Android and Windows PC software, allowing to download several dozen titles.

Why use Google Play Games ?

What are the news of the latest version of Google Play Games ?

With which Google Play Games OS is available ?

What are the best alternatives to Google Play Games ?

Description

Google Play Games or Google Play Games, is a mobile application for Android and software for Windows (in beta version) allowing access to a video game catalog. The advantage of this system lies in the synchronization of sessions both on your mobile and on your PC and the possibility of enjoying a large screen and mouse/keyboard controls to play. It is also possible to benefit from the Google Play Points program to earn points and therefore rewards both on your PC and on your smartphone or your tablet under Android.

For the moment, Google Play Games allows you to play a hundred games on your PC and synchronize your games between your different devices to continue on your mobile.

Why use Google Play Games ?

Everyone knows Google Play Games, the catalog of mobile games on Android included in the Google Play Store. So far, it was only available on Android smartphones and tablets in Europe, but since the end of May 2023, Google Play Games is now also available on PC (Windows 10/11), offering an experience of Mobile games directly on the big screen of your PC, with orders specially designed to go from the combo mouse/keyboard to the touch controls of your mobile device. Because yes, it is possible to spend PC games on mobile and thus synchronize your games.

What does Google Play Games offer ?

Google Play Games is therefore a catalog and a mobile game platform. You will find casual games, arcade games, strategy games, RPG, simulation games, management games, card games, fighting games, thinking, puzzles and well others. Some are free, others are paid (connected to your Google account).

How does Google Play Games work on PC and mobile ?

Google Play Games on Mobile offers you access to instant games, mini-games and even complete games but without installation, allowing the user to play games without storing them on their smartphone. However, it will be necessary to have an internet connection (WiFi or Mobile Network) which can be expensive in data, depending on your telephone package. With Google Play Games on PC, you have a smaller catalog of games. Indeed, it is necessary that the gameplay and the orders are adaptable both on PC and on mobile. We could compare Google Play Games to a game emulator like Bluestacks or a gaming platform like Steam. It provides access to a game catalog, but available on another operating system.

On mobile, users have a menu allowing access to the 3 main sections: reception, library and profile. Since the reception, players will be able to consult the game suggestions of the moment (according to different criteria), game playlists, or launch a search to play a specific game. The library lists all the games you have played from the Google Play Games, or even games installed from the Google Play Store and that you have deleted. From the Profile menu, you can, of course, access your account and successes affected in the different games, and thus visualize the progress of your level of experience (XP). Indeed, Google Play Games incorporates an XP points management system allowing them to combine them to win rewards, discounts on games, improvements, etc.

It is also possible to invite your contacts to play multiplayer games together, compare your performance, take up challenges, share your exploits, etc.

From Google Play Games for PC, players can view game recommendations from the Home screen and display the list of downloaded games and installed in the library. A new menu here makes its appearance: all games. It lists all games and allows users to select a category directly to filter games.

On the other hand, we found a difference in the number of successes on mobile and on PC.

For the rest, the activation of a game remains very simple. Just click on install and be guided. You will then find the game in the library and can play it directly. Synchronization is automatic via your Google account. So you can stop your game on your PC and take it back on your mobile or tablet.

What is the minimum PC configuration required ?

Only downside: the minimum pc configuration required. Indeed, you must have a PC under Windows 10/11 with a 10 GB storage space on an SSD hard drive, an Intel UHD Graphics 630 graphics card, but especially a 4 -core processor and 8 GB of RAM. You will also be asked to activate hardware virtualization or install the hypervisor if it has not already been done. This parameter is compulsory to be able to download and install games.

What are the news of the latest version of Google Play Games ?

Google Play Games has already been available on PC for some time in other countries. Since the end of May 2023, it has been available for Europe and New Zealand. New games are regularly added to the catalog and improvements, particularly in terms of synchronization and compatibility are on the program.

With which Google Play Games OS is available ?

You can download and install Google Play Games on your Smartphone or Android tablet, and on your PC under Windows 10/11 (with a 4 -core and 8 GB RAM processor).

No version for MacOS is yet available.

What are the best alternatives to Google Play Games ?

Emulators

If you want to have an Android mobile game experience on PC, emulators are suitable. They make it possible to reproduce an Android environment in a window of your PC. Users will be able to play games or enjoy their mobile applications (and not just games) on the big screen of their PC. Then, the choice of an emulator depends on its options, its interface, etc. Among the best known, we can cite Bluestacks, Noxplayer, Memu, or Andy.

Gameloop is a bit special since it is also an Android emulator but which does not allow access to Google Play Store to download all kinds of applications or games. The platform offers a selection of games and applications in a specific catalog.

Other PC games catalogs

If you are particularly looking for a gaming platform, you can turn to Steam Who invites you to download and install a desktop client on your PC to access games to download and install. You will benefit from free, paid games, demonstration, etc. On the other hand, no synchronization on mobile, unless you have a steam deck console, but there you cannot use your smartphone or tablet.

Among Steam competitors, often offered by video game publishers, we can cite Origin – EA Play (for games developed by Electronic Arts), Ubisoft Connect – Uplay (for Ubisoft games), or Epic Games Launcher For titles developed by Epic Games.

Google Play Games: how to play Android games on PC

Finding her Android mobile games on her PC is the promise of Google Play Games. A service set up by the American giant and which is currently deployed in France in the form of a beta version. Here are the steps to follow.

Asphalt 9 Legends, Arknights, 1945 Arcade shooting. More than 100 mobile games are available for free on PC thanks to Google Play Games. The idea is simple, transpose the games available on your Android smartphone in a 100% playable version on a Windows computer. Initially launched in 2022 in the United States, it is only since this year that this service is accessible in France.

If some Android games were already available under Windows 11, as is also the case with Amazon Prime Gaming, thanks to a compatibility offered by Microsoft, the offer launched by Google is however different. Because the idea is to allow owners of Android smartphones to access complete compatibility with a PC. Clearly, you can start a game on your mobile in the morning in transport and continue it in the evening when you get home on your computer, with an intercompatible backup system.

Playable games with a keyboard, a mouse or a controller

In order to launch Google Play Games, it is first necessary to register for the Beta version program. Available here on the official website, it first invites you to register. Once installed on your PC, the application will ask you to link your Google identifiers, the whole will allow you to find the games compatible with this offer.

So, for example, if you have the ASPHAlt 9 Legends motor racing game on your smartphone, you can find it with your backups and your purchases integrated in the PC version. It should be noted that all the commands go from a touch screen here to the keyboard, the mouse and even the controllers compatible with a PC. All without problem.

However, a minimum configuration should be observed, namely: a Windows 10 PC, an SSD hard drive with 10 GB of storage at least and 8 GB of RAM.