While Android games have been playable on PC through emulators, the latest version of Windows was announced to feature native Android apps support. Now, Google has just released some Android games for the Windows.

For those unaware, the Search Engine giant had first announced that it would bring Android games to Windows back in December 2021. The company would port these games through the Play Games app, which would use Windows 11’s Android app layer. According to an ArsTechnica report, this feature is finally being rolled out, although it is currently in a very limited beta only version.

Google stated that it is “excited to announce that some of the most popular mobile games in the world will be available at launch, including Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Summoners War, State of Survival: The Joker Collaboration, and Three Kingdoms Tactics.” Furthermore, these titles use the Play Games cloud to store achievements as well as progress, which the user will be able to sync their progress across all of your devices like PC, smartphones, and Chrome OS.

Unfortunately, regular apps are currently not available in the beta, but users can download them through the Amazon App Store or through side loading. The company has even launched a beta sign up and a developer site as well. So for those interested, here are the minimum requirements for your system:

• Windows 10 (v2004)
• Solid state drive (SSD)
• Gaming-class GPU
• 8 logical cores of CPU
• 8 GB of RAM
• 20 GB of available storage space
• Windows admin account
• Hardware virtualization must be turned on
• Compatible PC device and configuration

As per Good, the official release will vary based on the region, but beta testings will begin in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. Additional regions will soon be included later this year.

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Google plans to bring Android games to the Windows OS next year through a special version of the Google Play Games app. The app will be built for Windows and will allow games from Google Play to run on Windows laptops, tablets, and PCs.

Greg Hartrell, Google’s product director of games on Android and Google Play, revealed that the implementation will allow seamless switching between phones, tablets, Chromebooks, and Windows PCs, allowing your favorite titles from Android to run on more devices than ever before. Games can be resumed on another device after playing on one.

Google spokesperson Alex Garcia-Kummert told The Verge that the company has built the app entirely on its own, without a partnership with Microsoft, BlueStacks, or others. It’s unclear what technology is being used to emulate Android apps on Windows. All we know is that games will run locally instead of streaming from the cloud.

The Google Play Games app will also be distributed by Google itself and will support Windows 10 and up, with no special integration with the OS. Microsoft’s Android apps virtualization only supports Windows 11, so it’s great to see now that older Windows 10 machines will also be at least able to run games from Android. Google does not seem to be interested in running standard Android apps on Windows though.

For now, Google has only teased the app during The Game Awards held yesterday and has promised a release sometime in 2022.

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