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Interesting to note that there's an alternative specifically for running Android games on Windows - Google Play Games [1] which is Google's official offering, and it does not rely on WSA tech so that it works on Windows 10 as well.

[1] - https://play.google.com/googleplaygames

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I just wish it had support for the full Google Play store and not something super limited.

"Limited" is too limited of a word: as very best I can tell from the several times I've tried it they seem to do everything in their power to cherry-pick the most spammy ad-ridden garbage one could possibly want to see from the Play Store. So, OT1H, sure, I get it, ad-tech company wants the biggest ad-vector they can get; OTOH, it still has to be something folks want to play and so their gamble did not pay off when I instaclosed their spam-store offering and saw zero ads

Looks similar to BlueStacks or MSI App Player, especially since it also requires hardware virtualization, so I assume it's like the Android SDK (that I think used QEMU?). Definitely worth looking at if there are Android apps that you want to run on a Desktop. (I used it for the Ace Attorney games before we got proper ports to modern systems.)

Anything that requires first-party opt-in is bad.

With WSA, you could take any old APK file you pick up off the road and install it on your desktop.

With GPG, they decide what you can and cannot play.

Also, LD Player is an alternative. It is from a Chinese company.

Doesn't run on some hardware where Bluestacks does.

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