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TL;DR
- Google has started rolling out a new GPU driver for the Pixel 10 series with Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1.
- The update aligns with Imagination’s August driver release and brings Android 16 and Vulkan 1.4 support.
- While real-world performance gains remain unconfirmed, the update should reach stable builds in a future Pixel Drop
Too bad android gaming sucks as much as 10 years ago
You mean you don’t want to spend half of your game time watching ads? Or using a touchscreen because no phone company will make a slide out controller phone?
Maybe take a look at emulators then? Modern phones are capable of running many retro games, including WII and PS2 games.
Additionally, it is possible to run PC games.
That’s basically all I play on my phone, but it doesn’t qualify as “android gaming” IMO.
If emulators and winlator do not count as android gaming, then emulation and wine/proton do not count as Linux gaming lmao.
Yes, running emulated games on a PC doesn’t automagically make them PC games, “lmao”.
Also wine is not an emulator, as its name clearly states, it makes things run natively so we should more generally talk about “PC gaming” there.
If you still want to make a distinction between games born for Windows and games born for Linux, then yes, those are not “Linux gaming”.
However it is totally off topic here since not only Linux has been improving a lot in the last decade, but also the games developed for Linux have been getting incredibly good (for free).
So, yeah… I don’t know what you were trying to convey with your comment but now you are a little more educated about gaming than you, apparently, were before.
You are welcome.
Thank you for starting an autistic Reddit argument. I missed these.
I wild say it’s worse but also not that bad. Play store has become much worse on helping you find good games and mostly promotes crappy adware games. There are still plenty of good games tho.
There are android apps combining fex/box64 with proton in order to run full Windows games now. Android may actually be a semi-viable gaming platform in the near future.
GameNative is one that works as a full steam client but there are a few others that give you more control like Winlator (both on GitHub)
You can actually play games pretty decently on them, especially indies like hollow knight and Celeste.
Yes, still not android games, are they?
We have had decent android phones for like 10 years, at least, yet the best you can on them is emulating other platforms.
There are decent paid native games on android. You can try those.
Can you mention some of those?
I’m also fond of Hungry Cat Picross and LogicWiz Sudoku, but I’m sure there are other good apps for these games.
All of them (some of which I like and played) are old or look old.
Nothing wrong with looking old, especially when we talk about indie games, but that’s not the peak android gaming experience I was expecting years ago.
That makes sense because I like pixel art. If you’re into polygons you might want to check out:
And soon Warframe. You can pre-register to be notified when it releases.
I would suggest removing genshin impact from the list and insert Wuthering Waves instead. It’s a copycat that improves on every aspect if GI, while also being somewhat better game in general:
Honestly, considering both games have shitty story telling and shitty story that no one cares about in general, just the last point should make Wuwa superior. The fact that genshin impact devs aren’t adding dialog/cutscenes skip button, while providing shittiest “stories” written by 5 years old, for every minor quest in the game — infuriating me.