I tried playing PC games on my phone, and the only thing that worked was a community rebuild of the most controversial app in the scene

Playing Windows games on an Android phone has gone from being a novelty to something people can actually do in approximately two short years, and most of that movement has come about as a result of a single tool: Winlator. Winlator stacks Wine on top of x86/x86_64 translation layers like Box86 and Box64, with forks increasingly experimenting with components like Proton builds, FEXCore, Mesa Turnip, DXVK, and VKD3D. It turns a modern smartphone (typically Snapdragon-based) into something that can plausibly boot a PC game. To get started, I originally thought that my Oppo Find N5 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8…