If you’ve not heard of projects like Winlator, GameHub and GameNative, they’ve been working on bringing what once kinda seemed like the impossible, to being pretty easy and effective: playing full PC games on Android phones and handhelds.
You can run Steam titles like Tomb Raider (2013), GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, and Sleeping Dogs. Heck, someone even managed to finish Cyberpunk 2077 on their Magic 8S Pro — though the FPS was, well… not great.
But one issue popped up with GameHub. It was found to be a little bit sneaky with telemetry and permissions.
So, someone decided to take that program, strip the permissions and telemetry and call it a day. This program is called GameHub Lite From the current dev:
GameHub Lite is a community-modified version of GameSir’s GameHub that strips out all the privacy violations while keeping the functionality that makes PC gaming on Android accessible.
Anyway, this is a long-winded way of saying that GameHub Lite came about for a very specific need, and addressed it. It still amazes me that somehow in the span of a couple years, we’ve got these extremely powerful Android handhelds somehow running (some) PS3, Switch and Steam Games.
I chatted to Producdevity: the dev of GameHub Lite and also Utkarsh from GameNative about their experiences in the Steam emulation scene, and the current PC emulation landscape in general.
If you’re interested in this kinda thing, then you can find my link here to the interview with them