I work with Google Play Games Services. I took the code from the official example. Try with API 27 and with API 17.
All works only under one account (owner Google Develo
True path is requestScopes(Games.SCOPE_GAMES_LITE):
GoogleSignInOptions gso = new GoogleSignInOptions .Builder(GoogleSignInOptions.DEFAULT_SIGN_IN) .requestScopes(Games.SCOPE_GAMES_LITE) .requestEmail() .build();