Do you know that you can download and play Pokémon Go from the computer? Yes, you heard right! Although officially there is no application designed for this purpose, the truth is that there are some tricks that can help you download the game and, thus, be able to control your Pokémons while you are at home, at work or watching television. Although you should know that, since it does not have a motion sensor (the computer does not move with us, as the mobile does) the game features are a bit limited and you will not be able to play in the same way as when you do it with your smartphone. In this oneHOWTO article we are going to tell you how to play pokemon go from pc so that you know how to download this game and enjoy your Pokémon world to the fullest.
Steps to follow:
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To the present, Nintendo hasn’t released any version of Pokémon Go for PC And, therefore, the alternative that we will give you so that you can download the game is based on a specific trick that will allow us to install and run the application on the computer. But we emphasize that it is NOT the official version so it will be important that, when you go to install the game, you make sure that it is authentic, that is, that it does not contain any malware that could affect your PC.
Be very careful when doing tricks or carrying out some “cheats” because it is possible that Nintento will ban your account and, therefore, that you cannot play anymore; at OneHOWTO we help you know if you are banned from Pokémon Go.
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To play Pokémon Go from your PC What we will do is use an Android emulator for the computer that will allow us to download the game on the PC in the same way that you can download the app to your mobile device. But, first of all, we have to know that in order to carry out this trick we must have an operating system installed Windows with version 7 or higher; therefore, it is NOT valid for Windows XP, Vista or any previous model.
It is also recommended that, before installing the game, let’s open our Gmail account or Google so that, when we download it, we run the same game with which we are logged in on our mobile. Only then can the data be synchronized.
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Having said that, we already started with the process of download pokemon go to pc and, for this, we must download the Android emulator known as “Bluestacks”. It is one of the oldest and most complete apps that allows you to imitate the Android system on the computer, it allows us to download applications from the Play Store but also to install the APK files that we download.
As soon as you have Bluestacks installed on your PC you will have to look at the tabs that appear at the top of the screen and click on the one that says “Android”, here we must look for the option “Settings” and click on “Add account”.
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In the bar on the right you will see that “APK” appears, we will have to click here as it will allow us to choose where we want to download this file. It is important to do this process as it is vital to be able to download and play Pokémon Go from your computer.
When the download process has finished, you just have to run it as if you were accessing it from your mobile phone; You will see that at the beginning it asks for the date of birth but as soon as it detects that you have your Gmail open, it will synchronize with your game already started and you will be able to see your game from the PC.
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It is important that you know that from the computer there are some functionalities that you will NOT be able to carry out and the most important of them is that in this game downloaded on PC you cannot hunt pokémons. The reason is simple: the Bluestacks app has problems with the location of the device and, therefore, is not able to detect our position on the GPS; also let’s not forget that in order to hunt it is important to move and sit at a computer, as is logical, we are static.
But what YES we can to do from the computer is manage Pokémon that we have, feed them and make them evolve, access the store, interact with objects, navigate the Pokédex, and so on. So if you want play Pokémon Go from your PC It is important that you take into account these limitations because, honestly, the main grace of the game is in hunting Pokémon and this, unfortunately, cannot be carried out (at least until now).
If you prefer to download the game on your mobile, see our other article on how to download Pokémon Go on Android.
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