There’s also a link in this panel to the multi-instance facility, which allows you to run multiple games at the same time, as if you have an array of smartphones in front of you on the desk.

Looking like a sexy charcoal Windows, it presents you with nice bold icons, tabs along the top for navigating between the home screen and any games or other windows you’re running, and a shortcut panel along the bottom for crucial links like Google Play, BlueStacks World, and App Center, BlueStacks’s own curated version of Google’s store. This is immediately obvious on installing the software, which is quicker to load and more responsive than ever. Not only is this latest version smaller and sleeker than its predecessors, but it’s eight times more powerful into the bargain. Previous versions of BlueStacks have suffered from slowdown on all but the most powerful desktop computers, so the good news is that BlueStacks 4 is a huge improvement. While smartphones are generally less powerful than PCs, and Android games are generally smaller than PC games, it’s surprisingly difficult to get Android games running smoothly on PC. There’s a number of very good reasons, and we’ll get to them in good time, but first we’re going to look at BlueStacks 4, the latest version of the software. If you’re not clear on why you might want to do that, keep reading. It essentially allows you to turn your PC monitor into a giant smartphone screen. More specifically, BlueStacks is a PC client, like Steam, but it’s for installing and running games from the Google Play Store rather than games made for PC. Just in case you’re not already one of them, and you’ve never come across the platform before, here it is in a nutshell: BlueStacks is Steam but for Android games.

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