On Windows, the go-to emulators are Bluestacks and NoxPlayer (both closed source), especially when gaming is concerned. Unfortunately they are not available on Linux, and the Nox devs’ dismissive attitude towards Linux also makes it unlikely they’ll ever make a Linux port:
So apart from trying to run these two using Wine, what emulators are out there on Linux that yield a sufficiently decent performance to make Android games playable?
EDIT: looks like Waydroid is a winner, see the comments.
that’s possible and it does work well, but you have to disable the anticheat and risk getting banned
Exactly this. But I wanted to try Android emulation anyway as there are lots of other games too. The sandboxing of Waydroid is also great and gives you more security and privacy as you just have to use a dummy Google account if you really need the Play Store.
how was the performance compared to the wine version?
Haven’t tried Genshin with Wine (I might try “An anime game launcher”, might get banned but I don’t really want to keep Windows anymore so c’est la vie), but on Waydroid it’s unplayable because of the ARM -> x86 translation layer, the Genshin Android app apparently ships only ARM64 binaries. The games in the screenshots however were running at native speeds.
fyi i used “an anime game launcher” a few months ago, it ran perfectly fine especially with the framerate unlocker, it was really good. i wasn’t banned i played it for a few days but i haven’t played genshin since.