Google is intending to bring Android games to Windows PCs one year from now. A Google Play Games application will be accessible in 2022, worked by Google to permit games from Google Play to run on Windows PCs, tablets, and PCs.

“Starting in 2022, players will be able to experience their favorite Google Play games on more devices: seamlessly switching between a phone, tablet, Chromebook, and soon, Windows PCs,” says Greg Hartrell, Google’s product director of games on Android and Google Play, in a statement. “This Google built product brings the best of Google Play Games to more laptops and desktops, and we are thrilled to expand our platform for players to enjoy their favorite Android games even more.”

Google representative Alex Garcia-Kummert lets The Verge know that the organization has constructed this application all alone, which means Google hasn’t banded together with Microsoft, BlueStacks, or others here. The upcoming application will likewise permit players to continue games on a desktop PC, subsequent to playing them on a phone, tablet, or Chromebook.

Until further notice, Google is essentially teasing the app during The Game Awards this evening, with a guaranteed release window of at some point one year from now. It’s not yet clear the thing technology Google is using to copy Android applications on Windows, yet games will run locally as opposed to streaming from the cloud.

“This will be a native Windows app distributed by Google, which will support Windows 10 and up,” explains Hartrell. “It will not involve game streaming.” Google’s application will not depend on any special integration with Windows 11, and the organization will likewise appropriate the actual application.

Google’s declaration comes months after Microsoft began testing Android applications on Windows 11 PCs. Microsoft has constructed a hidden Windows Subsystem for Android, which is fit for running Android applications from an assortment of sources. The software goliath has cooperated with Amazon to let Windows clients natively install games and applications from the Amazon Appstore, yet native Google Play support will not be accessible authoritatively through Microsoft’s feature.

Since Microsoft is just formally partnered with Amazon for that feature, it has implied far fewer Android games and applications accessible for Windows 11 clients to effectively install than there may somehow or another be. The door is open for Google, BlueStacks, and others to fill that hole.

While Microsoft, and presently Google, work on bringing Android applications and games to Windows, BlueStacks has gone a step further and is currently bringing Android games to web browsers. BlueStacks X is a free method for playing Android games in your browser, and BlueStacks has been focused on Android gaming on Windows since it became the dominating use case for its main app in 2016.

Subtleties on Google’s plans for Android applications on Windows initially showed up in a document from the Epic v. Apple preliminary recently. Dated October 2020, the 70-page document portrayed an aggressive work to get Android games on Macs and Windows PCs. The document uncovered Google would initially bring “emulated, native and streamed games” to Windows, and at least part of that work is beginning in 2022.