DroidDeck Runs Xbox Game Pass PC Games on Android

Microsoft just finished gutting Xbox Cloud Gaming, chopping Ultimate members down to 15 hours a month and charging $3.99 for ten more on top of whatever you're already paying. So of course the fix shows up from a hobbyist project on GitHub instead of from Redmond.

That project is DroidDeck, and its newest update adds experimental support for running Xbox Game Pass PC games directly on Android devices, as Windows Central reports. No streaming server in the middle. No countdown clock eating your hours. The game just runs on the hardware in your hand.

Early results are the kind of thing that makes you raise an eyebrow at a backpack-sized gaming PC you may have overpaid for. Windows Central says Hollow Knight: Silksong hit over 100 FPS on the Ayn Thor, and Minecraft Dungeons 2 landed in the 30 to 40 FPS range. DroidDeck is only at version 0.6.0 and still rough, but it's already reaching past Game Pass into Steam, Epic Games, GOG, Amazon Games, and itch.io, which RetroPup's hands-on walkthrough on the Ayn Thor backs up, showing the Steam client itself running locally through Proton rather than any remote link.

None of this is Microsoft's doing. It's a volunteer build filling a hole the actual platform holder dug on purpose. Give it credit for the engineering and zero credit to the company whose subscription it's working around.

DroidDeck now runs Xbox Game Pass PC games natively on Android, no cloud streaming required
It's on version 0.6.0 and experimental, available on GitHub
It also supports Steam, Epic Games, GOG, Amazon Games, and itch.io
Comes weeks after Xbox Cloud Gaming cut Ultimate members to a 15-hour monthly cap

iPhone owners still get nothing. Android handheld owners get a workaround built by strangers on the internet, which tells you plenty about who's actually earning Xbox back its credibility here, and it isn't Xbox.