Games on Chrome OS
Chrome OS devices have large screens and often have built in mice and keyboards, this makes them great gaming devices, for both web and Android games.
If you have an Android game published on the Google Play Store, it’s probably already being played by Chrome OS users today! Android games on Chrome OS include everything you expect from Google Play on mobile, including in-app purchases and subscriptions. While most mobile-centric games run just fine, to provide the absolute best experience for your users check out the topics in Adapting Android games to help bring optimized layouts, perfect input, and the best performance to your game.
Don’t have a game yet? Learn how to develop on Chrome OS – good place to start would be to try your hand at completing some of the game development tutorials in Unityor Unreal.
Get started on these topics
- Adapting Android games to learn about adapting your Android game
- Adapting web games to learn how to build interactive web games.
Topics in this section
Adapting Android games
Learn how to adapt your Android game for Chrome OS.
Input support
Learn about keyboard, mouse, controller, and stylus input handling.
Large screens and external displays
Window management for games on Chrome OS.
Optimizing display size
Explains how to determine display resolution for rendering.
Publishing considerations
Architecture considerations like x86/arm support to take into account when publishing your game.
Multiplayer networking
Optimizing multiplayer networking on Chrome OS.
Performance profiling
Performance profiling on Chrome OS.
Game engines
Optimizing usage of game engines for building on Chrome OS.
Adapting web games
Creating and optimizing web games for Chrome OS.