GameLoop

GameLoop
Tencent is still stuck at an unoriginal loophole as usual.
Language(s): English Thai Spanish Russian Portuguese Indonesian German Japanese French Italian Dutch Polish Korean Founded: July 2019 Developer(s): Tencent Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Website: https://gameloop.store/

GameLoop (formerly Tencent Gaming Buddy) is an Android emulator, app store, and streaming provider service developed by Tencent and released around mid-2019.

GameLoop was first released as Tencent Gaming Buddy to serve as an official emulator for PUBG Mobile on PC. After a favorable reception from PUBG fans, Tencent later expanded the platform to support other games, as well as including support from streaming services NonoLive and NimoTV.

Why It Sucks

1. Competition against Android x86 emulators nowadays is fierce, with Bluestacks and many other Chinese emulators such as Mumu, LDPlayer, and the official Android Studio. However, this emulator falls short against those competitors in many factors.
2. False advertising: On the launcher's website, Tencent displayed several PC games as "supported games" including Portal 2, Grand Theft Auto V, and Apex Legends as well as labeled it as a "free games" to confuse the viewers despite GameLoop is only an Android emulator. Unless they were implied to be working on their own "Windows to Android" emulation solution such as Winlator for example which works with a very limited selection of Qualcomm hardware, putting PC games as "supported games" is virtually pointless.
3. Despite claims that the launcher was built specifically for gaming, it suffers from optimization problems;
   • Many games suffered from wrongly displayed textures and models.
   • The launcher sometimes has trouble while running small-sized games (such as lagging and occasional freezing), this also includes various "hyper-casual" games made by Voodoo.
   • Sometimes, the game doesn't even launch at all.
4. Unlike most Android emulators, you cannot install any apps except for the "supported" ones available for download on the launcher. You can't even install the app via APK.
   • It should be noted that most of these "supported" games have only preset keyboard configurations and thus do not require any complex technical modification to make them "compatible" with the emulator.
5. The launcher occasionally resets itself when you close it, this means various settings on the emulator as well as account sign-in will be reset to default and force you to log in and set up the emulator all over again.
   • This also caused some game's progress to be reset as well.
6. For odd reasons, some games on the platform were region-locked mostly due to the launcher doesn't "support" an international version (and thus not available for download). A notable example includes Azur Lane, in which only the Chinese region is available.
7. The review system on the launcher is rigged and practically useless; you cannot write a review of a game on the platform and instead, the launcher features "highest rated" positive reviews from the Google Play's app page (especially a "featured" app made by Tencent's subsidiary) that can easily be seen as a review written and mass-upvoted by bots.

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