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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
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.
Honestly if I can play all of the new indie games on my phone I don’t really care whether or not they’re “android games.”
By your logic the steam deck doesn’t have any games since most of them rely on proton to work.
As I was saying to another user, yes the steam deck kinda has no games, although I’d argue that PC gaming includes wine/proton too since they aren’t emulators.
Anyway, I too am happy emulating stuff on my phone, but a few years ago I thought we were going to get more than this and they left me waiting basically.
Was enjoying asphalt legends til I hit the 8 hour mark (on steam legion go s, but its the same game) and then it became clear how much they want you to pay to progress, feel like they give you some wins early on, then suddenly every car is just a bit faster than yours even if your rating is higher. (Not the campaign, that’s just a tedious grind, you progress so slow it reminds me of warthunder where you eventually realize you are better off working a minmium wage job and spending that money in game as the progression is 20x faster than playing the game for that amount of time.
I never played that but I perfectly know the feeling. In fact I think it’s not only a matter of hardware and software anymore, they just make more money like this and don’t care anymore.
Minimum effort, maximum gain. Sadly.
osu!stream is peak mobile gaming
…though I literally cannot name any more examples. And that game doesn’t need Vulkan.
There are decent paid native games on android. You can try those.
Can you mention some of those?
Dead cells, 9th dawn RPG 3, pocket rogues, vampire survivors, titan quest, undead horde, quest of wizard, star traders frontiers, doom and destiny, tesla vs Lovecraft, out there omega edition, rusted warfare, grimvalor, exemplars of elaed, solar 2, Interstellar pilot 1 & 2, galaxy on fire 2, mindustry, zombotron, the quest series, majesty, majesty northern edition, Minecraft, starrows, uncivic, beholder, data defence, kingdom rush series, seven days rpg, endless sky, tallowmere, Halls of torment, bit dungeon 2 & 3, delight games, magic survival.
You can also check this post for non-gacha games: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/40095267
Thank you, I looked up all the ones I didn’t know and, as I said in my first comment, we are still stuck with 10 years old gaming.
Not saying that the games suck (although some look like crap honestly), my point is that after a decade of hardware and software “updates” the bottleneck is still there and basically unchanged.
And that is unacceptable considering the price tag of some devices.
What bottleneck are you talking about?
I agree for pixel phones. For everyone else you have options. you can game at medium to high settings on upper midrange dimensity 8300/8400 phones, snapdragon 7+ gen 2/3, 8gen 2, 8s gen 3, and other phones.
What’s the last modern game you have played on your phone?
I have listed all the games that I have played and still keep installed on my phone. Others like Real Racing 3 require powerful hardware which my phone does not have unfortunately.
What exactly are you expecting here?
The same I’ve repeated since the beginning, just something that doesn’t look like it’s from the 2015 Play Store.
Even that Real Racing is from 2013 bro… literally released that year.
I’m surprised no one mentioned big ports, like Alien: Isolation, some Telltale games, Life is Strange, Red Dead Redemption, GTA series, Hitman, Subnautica, etc. There also was announced Tomb Raider port. It’s not a lot, but still, l would consider this a better example of “good paid games” on Android, compared to something like genshin impact.
There’s quite a good chess-themed roguelike available for free this week
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?
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.