Turn Your Android Phone Into A Steam Deck! Play Real PC Games

Hey, what's going on everybody? It's ETA Prime back here again. Today I'm going to show you the easiest way to play real PC games on your Android phone. And I'm not talking about cloud gaming or streaming here. What we're going to be doing is emulating Steam games. We can even do Epic Games, GOG games, and now with the latest update to Game Native, we can even do Amazon games. At the time of making this video, Game Native was updated one day ago with a lot of awesome fixes, improvements, and new features. totally reworked UI, which does function a bit better on a smaller screen and a larger screen. Lots of bug fixes across the board when it comes down to it, but in my opinion, this is definitely the easiest way to get Steam up and running on your Android device. So, I'm starting fresh here. I've just logged into my Steam account inside of Game Native on my phone. I'm going to download a PC game. And as we scroll through here, you can see there's a ton of stuff. I'm on my own Steam account and as long as you own that game, it's going to appear here. Now, not every single game is going to work on your device. And by the way, it doesn't just have to be an Android phone. It can be an Android powered handheld. It could be a tablet. And I find that anything up to the Snapdragon 888 you'll have a pretty decent time with. I've also tested this on an older Snapdragon 865 and lower-end 2D games and indie games seem to run pretty well also. So, again, I'm starting fresh here. I'm downloading my first game. We'll let this finish up. Now that it's finished downloading, I can try to start it up. But one thing I love about game native are the known working configs. So users have gone through and played these games and they've got a configuration that we can actually download directly in the app. And most of the time it works pretty well per device. So I've got that set up. I've hit play. Now it's going to download all of the necessary files to allow us to emulate this on our Android device. We'll give this some time, but once it's finished, it's going to boot right into the game. Now, it's definitely not perfect. It's still a bit early, but this is a super easy way to emulate Steam games, GOG games, Epic Games, and now Amazon games on your Android device. If you want to get this set up, I'm going to jump into a screen recorder, and we'll get right into it. Just to make it easier to see, I've swapped over to one of my tablets here. I can record the screen very easily and use a mouse. This is Android just like your phone is running. This is the Lenovo Legion Y700. Interface may look a bit different because it's a tablet and not a phone, but it's basically the same exact thing that you're running on your Android device. Now, starting off here, there is one thing that I highly recommend getting if you're having trouble starting your games up with Game Native. My internet provider, for some reason, won't allow me to download the proper versions of Proton automatically through Game Native. So, I recommend a VPN, and you don't need this on all the time, only the initial load of the game, and this could alleviate a lot of headaches right off the bat for people out there. I'm using ProtonVPN. I just go to the free servers. It doesn't need to download much. And while we're downloading our games from Steam in-game native, you do not need this on. This just prevents an issue that I ran into, and it's something that I can recommend. We'll talk more about that in just a bit, but now we need to get Game Native downloaded and installed on our device. I'll leave a link in the description to the official GitHub. It was recently updated and there's a ton of changes here. I would highly recommend reading through everything here. There's a lot of great information. But in order to get this, we're going to go over to the releases. At the time of making this video, it's version 0.8. And you can see with this new change log, which actually happened yesterday at the time I'm making this video, there is a ton of new stuff here. So, a complete UI UX overhaul. Really awesome. I like the way it looks here, especially on a bigger screen. They've even added Amazon game support. You can read through this, but we want to get the APK for our device. So, right here, we're going to get game native. And this could be a higher version in the future. Just going to download it. And basically, we're going to be sideloading this because it's not available on Google Play at the time of making this video. When installing, you may get a prompt that looks a little something like this. And that's because Game Native is not on Google Play. Any sideloaded app is going to give you this with newer versions of Android. Now that we've got Game Native installed, we'll start it up for the first time. And it's going to ask you to log into Steam. If you use your Steam username and password, you can do it that way. But I would highly recommend if you've got a Steam account, use the Steam app that has the built-in Steam authenticator. So, you can scan a QR code right over here, and you'll log directly into your account. That's exactly what I'm going to do. So, I'll be signed right into my Steam account inside of Game Native on my Android device. Once you've signed in, it's going to populate your Steam games right here. And if you do want to sign into Epic, GOG, or Amazon Games, really easy to do so. Right over in the top right hand corner, we've got a little hamburger menu. We'll open this up. And right here, sign into GOG, sign into Epic, sign into Amazon Games. I'm just going to be covering Steam. So, that's what we have here. So, you've got the app installed, you're signed into Steam. Next thing we need to do is find a game that we can play. And not every single one of these games is going to be playable on your device. This is not a replacement for your gaming PC or your gaming laptop. But if we move down, you notice that some of them say compatible. And this is not 100% accurate, but it does get you pretty close. Let me find a game that we can quickly download and install. Marvel Cosmic Invasion. You can see known config works on your GPU. So, this is great. I'll install it from here. And at this point, I've never had to use a VPN. It actually only started when I start the game up because it does need to download the proper configurations like Proton FEX and maybe even the correct driver for your GPU, the Turnup driver if you're using a Snapdragon chip. That's where I ran into issues with this because of my internet provider. Now, you might not even need to use a VPN, but I wanted to give you that heads up just to kind of alleviate any frustration when trying to start the game. Now that the game's downloaded, there's a few things we can do. You can actually try to start the game up just like it is. But since this does have a known config, I'm going to head over to the little settings cog. And if we take a look, we've got a bunch of options. So, we can create a shortcut. We can export for a front end. If you're using a third party frontend on Android, you can use that. Verify the files just like you would in real Steam. You can update the game and our container. You can reset the container, reset the DRM, or use the known config. I'm going to use known config. And you'll see I had a failed download. That's where my VPN comes in. Unfortunately, my internet provider just won't let me access that. That's where that VPN comes in. So, I'll open the VPN that I opted to use, which is ProtonVPN. Now, I'm connected. We'll head back into Game Native. We'll choose play and it's going to start to load. And you'll notice that it's going to start downloading. Here's our Proton 10.0. It's going to download this. May need to download a few other files. Now, it's going to download the first time files. It's going to sync your cloud saves from Steam. And that's one of the really awesome things about Game Native. You can download the same saves that you have in Steam. So you can start right where you left off over there with these indie games. I mean, they're going to run really well on a lot of different devices. I've also tested a bunch of indie games and 2D games on older chipsets like the Snapdragon 865, and I was really surprised to see that you could hit 60FPS with that chip also. And of course, there's a lot of people out there that are probably going to run into a few issues here and there getting a game up and running. We'll head back to Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Over here, we've got the settings cog. Edit container. Open container. We're going to go to edit container. And this is everything that has to do with running this game or emulating this game inside of Android. Our container variant. Bionic is chosen by default. And on Snapdragon, this is what I would definitely recommend. Wine version is another one that could really help out with performance or even getting a game booted up. So, if we move in here, you can see there's a few to choose from. Proton 10. This is the ARM 64 version. And you might recognize Proton from, let's say, the Steam Deck. There's also a 9.0 version right here. So, let's say you were having issues launching the game, you could always try Proton 9. And this will be updated in the future. These will be different numbers later on, but just keep that in mind. We've got a Wine Proton version that can be changed. Going down a bit more, you can change the resolution. And for the most part, I've kept basically everything at 1280 by 720. Portrait mode. Audio driver isn't one that I really had to mess around with yet. We can show FPS on screen so we can get a feeling for how good the game's running. Force DLC. Use legacy DRM. Unpacked files. Steam offline mode can be enabled directly from within game native. You can also swap over to the beta version of the Steam client. and steam type. You can go with normal, light, or ultra light. I'm just going to leave it where it is. Next up, we've got our graphics. Present modes. Mailbox for Snapdragon has worked great. I have not had to change this, but there are others to choose from. We've also got a sharpness boost that can be enabled from here. Cass or DLS, extra sharp, it's going to be more intense, and it doesn't look very good. Cass is clear, more natural. This can help out with the clarity of a game if you've got to lower that resolution down. Emulation. Now, this is where a lot of the stuff can break. This is where a lot of the stuff can go wrong. I would highly recommend checking out the GitHub page and the issues over there. If you go to GitHub and you do a search for answered or non-answered in the issue section, chances are somebody may have already run into the same issue and there's an answer over there. But the first option here is our fx core. And you're going to hear a lot more about fex once steam releases the steam frame. But from here, we've got different versions that we can test and use. One of the big reasons I love game native is because we've got that preconfigured file that'll allow us to kind of get this up and running if it's been tested on a device with the same chipset. So, this is another area that you can either increase performance, make it not work, or just kind of break it. There's really a lot that goes into the back end here. That's why uh I do recommend using game native and just kind of stick with those compatible games. Try to use one of those pre-made configs if it's available to you. Box 64. This can actually really increase performance. Out of the box, it's set to compatibility, but we've got a few to choose from. And for instance, with this same exact tablet that I have here, if I run Cyberpunk in the compatibility mode, I don't get any kind of graphical glitches. If I go up to performance mode, it's going to turn a few things off in the background and I do get some graphical glitches. Some of the textures may be missing, but it does run faster. Stability and compatibility are kind of where you want to be, but if you really need it, you can always go on up a bit. We've also got controller, and I've been using an Xbox controller. I've also tested a couple of the game s controllers. I haven't had to change any of these settings yet using a wireless or wired controller with game native wine and our wine components. From wine, if you've got a device that has enough RAM, you can actually set the video memory size pretty high here. Out of the box, at least with my device, it was set to 2 gigs. I'm going to go up to four with this. This unit has 16 gigs of RAM, so I should be fine setting that at 4 gigabytes. Got wine components, environment. There's a lot here to kind of mess around with. And if you start going in too deep, chances are you'll probably break the game that was working in the first place if you're trying to get better performance. So, just keep that in mind. Usually, if I have to adjust anything, I make one change at a time and kind of try to remember what I changed so I don't have to reset the whole container. Now, there's one more thing I want to show you here, and this will pertain to any game. Our settings icon one more time, and we've got the open container. Basically, this is going to bring us into our wine container, which in all actuality is kind of a virtual desktop. And just to kind of give you an idea about the file structure, our C drive is going to be this container here. Program files x86. Just like on a Windows desktop, we'll go to Steam, Steam apps, common, and this is where our games are going to be located. Inside of this one here, we do have some uh common redistributables that may need to be installed if it gives you the error, but as you saw, it automatically installed them. So, we've gotnet and visual C++. Game Native has been pretty good about installing everything you need right off the bat, but just keep in mind if you get an error for, let's say, uh,net, you may need to come in here and you can install it just like you would on any desktop. You can also access your Android's internal storage from here. So, the C drive is basically a virtual drive with this wine container. But if we go to our D drive, this is going to be our downloads folder in Android. Got a few games that I was going to install manually here, like Cyberpunk. got the Witcher 3, some PS2 ROMs. So, just keep in mind from these containers, you can access the internal storage of Android. So, overall, Game Native is a super easy way to get your PC games up and running in Android, and there's a lot to learn within the app itself. There's others out there that will allow you to do the same thing and some may perform better like GameHub, but I wanted to make this video for people who are just getting into this and kind of want to try it out because again, this is the easiest way. I've got a couple more games here. These are at 30 fps and I just tried to lock them down. This is the Red Magic 10S. So, it's got the Snapdragon 8 Elite and it does perform really well with a PC game emulation on Android. I'd say if you really want to get into it, the Elite or the Elite Gen 5 is definitely the way to go. But if you do give this a try on a lower-end device, let me know how it goes in the comments below. Let us know what settings you're using, what game you're playing, and what CPU your device has. But that's going to wrap it up for this one. All links for everything I mentioned are in the description. And like always, thanks for watching.

Today, I'm showing you the absolute easiest way to play REAL PC games natively on your Android phone, tablet, or handheld! We aren't using cloud gaming or streaming—this is true emulation. With the latest updates, you can now run your Steam, Epic Games, GOG, and even Amazon Games libraries directly on your Android device. Get game native here: https://github.com/utkarshdalal/GameNative In this complete setup guide, we walk through installing the app, bypassing common download errors with a quick VPN trick, and dialing in the best container settings (Proton, Wine, and Box64) to get the most performance out of your chipset. Whether you're using an older Snapdragon 865 or pushing maximum frames on the new Snapdragon 8 Elite, this is a game-changer for mobile emulation. While I'm showcasing the Red Magic 10 in this video, I'll definitely be putting the Red Magic 11 Pro through its paces with this setup soon, so stay tuned! Follow Me On Twitter: https://twitter.com/theetaprime Follow Me On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/etaprime/ Vip-URCDKey 25% code for software: ETA Windows 11 Pro Key($25):https://biitt.ly/RUZiX Windows 11 Home Key($23):https://biitt.ly/SQKqi Windows 10 Pro OEM Key($20):https://biitt.ly/KpEmf Windows10 Home Key($17):https://biitt.ly/2tPi1 Windows 10 LTSC 2021 Key($15): https://biitt.ly/W564e Office 2019 pro key($63):https://biitt.ly/o0OQT 2016 pro key($32): https://biitt.ly/xWmvn Buy Windows 11 Pro Key at: https://www.vip-urcdkey.com DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission at no extra cost to you! 00:00 - Intro: Native PC Emulation on Android 01:25 - Device Requirements (Snapdragon 888 & 865) 02:15 - How Known Configs Work 03:30 - The VPN Trick (Crucial for Setup!) 04:45 - Downloading & Sideloading from GitHub 06:10 - Signing into Steam, Epic, GOG & Amazon 07:40 - Finding Compatible Games to Install 09:20 - Fixing Failed Downloads & Starting the Game 10:30 - Best Settings: Containers, Wine & Proton Versions 12:00 - Performance Tweaks: Box64 & Memory Size 13:30 - Virtual Desktop & Accessing Android Storage 14:15 - Snapdragon 8 Elite Performance & Wrap Up THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!