Q: Is Google Play Games for PC a good alternative to BlueStacks for gaming?įor now, Bluestacks still has an edge, thanks to its game library and keymapping tools. It doesn’t look like it is possible to manually install games on Google Play Games for PC at the moment. However, it seems like we could see the option to reassign keys in the future. You see prompts for keybinds during in-game tutorials, at least that was the case in Asphalt 9 in our brief test.
You have to rely on the default set of key bindings that the game developer has assigned and optimized. While it offers keyboard controls, keys are not remappable at the moment.
Meanwhile, Google Play Games comes a close second. Thanks to BlueStacks’ robust keymapping tools, you have the option to customize the keybinds to assign in-game actions to specific keys. To play Android mobile games on a PC, one needs efficient keymapping tools. Therefore, we can say that Google has taken the right approach with Play Games, offering smoother Android gaming on Windows PCs, but the experience is hampered by the lack of some of the most popular titles like PUBG Mobile, Call of Duty Mobile, or Among Us (more on this below). However, the experience wasn’t as fluid as Google Play Games, and we encountered occasional stutters and frame drops. As far as performance on BlueStacks is concerned, we tried playing Asphalt 9 Legends on the emulator.
