Google Play has been sharing the best Android game of the year since the past few years and this year’s edition was just announced! The awards are a combination of editorial reviews and judgements along with Android owners through the user’s choice.

Google says, “Games are transformative: They help build communities, foster creativity, and communicate complex ideas. This year we explored creative playgrounds, enchanting stories, and huge new worlds. Our picks for this year’s top games cover a wide range of experiences that show how people connect through play; presenting Play’s best games of 2022”.

Overall (editorial as well as user’s choice) best game of the year 2022 goes to Electronic Art’s Apex Legends.

Apex Legends Mobile rose through the Esports ranks, regularly trending and appearing in top 10 download lists throughout the year. The game brings all the excitement of the Apex Legends series to mobile and tablets so you can easily play wherever you are.

It is a multiplayer shooter game featuring FPS, TPS, and combat action. In multiplayer mode, you can team up with two other players in competitive PvP team battle games

Apart from the overall winner, Google also announced winners in specific categories…

Best Multiplayer game of the year 2022 : Dislyte

Best Pick Up & Play game of the year 2022 : Unsurprisingly Angry Birds Journey

Best Indies game of the year 2022 : Dicey Dungeons

Best game of the year 2022 for tablets : Tower of Fantasy

And Google has also come up with 3 new categories from this year…

Best story game of the year 2022 : Papers, Please

Best ongoing game of the year 2022 : Genshin Impact

Best game of the year 2022 on Play Pass : Very Little Nightmares

Best game of the year 2022 for Chromebooks : Roblox

Google had earlier this year announced that one will soon be able to play their favorite PlayStore games on their PC. And the good news here is that they are on track with it, with the latest update being that they are expanding the Beta program across many more territories including Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore.

With the launch of Windows 11, Microsoft had announced that they’ll soon start supporting Android apps and games on Windows.

Soon after, Google went ahead to announce that they will launch the Google Play Games for PC, way back in January 2022. At that time of announcement, they had started with support for just about 12 games in a handful of countries for Beta testing and encouraging developers to start supporting the same.

With today’s announcement from Android Developer’s Blog, Google has expanded the list of support games to a few dozens of games including including 1945 Air Force, Blade Idle, Cookie Run: Kingdom, and Evony: The King’s Return, support for Windows 10 as well as support for much lower hardware requirements, which now could run with just a Quad core CPU.

If you’re an Android games developer looking to learn more about Google Play Games, go ahead and express interest on the Google Play Games developer site and you can soon get onboarded and make your game compatible to be playable on bigger laptop screens!