When you fire up your favorite game, you’re playing it instantly. That’s what it means to be Game Ready on GeForce NOW. The experience has been optimized for cloud gaming and includes Game Ready Driver performance improvements. NVIDIA manages the game updates and patches. And when a game supports RTX, you can play it on GeForce NOW with beautifully ray-traced graphics and DLSS 2.0.

The GeForce NOW library is ever-growing. In an effort to help spotlight the games that are coming to the service, we’re moving to a monthly cadence for announcing new instant access games. Games will continue to be released every week – with new game launches available day-and-date, and back catalog games released each Thursday – but our members, and your readers, will now be able to learn about what’s coming a little further in advance.

GeForce NOW members have a ton to look forward to as the service welcomes the highly anticipated magnum opus from SEGA and Amplitude Studios, Humankind — part of the nine games joining the GeForce NOW library this week.

Members can also stream the newest Fortnite Season 7 game mode, “Impostors” and redeem a GeForce NOW reward for Eternal Return.

Gamers have been eagerly anticipating the release of Humankind, and GeForce NOW members will be able to experience this awesome new PC game when streaming on low-powered PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, SHIELD TVs or Android and iOS mobile devices with the power of GeForce NOW.

In Humankind, you’ll be rewriting the entire narrative of human history and combining cultures to create a civilization as unique as you are. Combine up to 60 historical cultures as you lead your people from the Ancient to the Modern Age. From humble origins as a Neolithic tribe, transition to the Ancient Era as the Babylonians, become the Classical era Mayans, the Medieval Umayyads, the Early Modern-era British, and so on. Create a custom leader from these backgrounds to pave the way to the future.

Players will encounter historical events and make impactful moral decisions to develop the world as they see fit. Explore the natural wonders, discover scientific breakthroughs and make remarkable creations to leave your mark on the world. Master tactical turn-based battles and command your assembled armies to victory against strangers and friends in multiplayer matches of up to eight players. For every discovery, every battle and every deed, players gain fame — and the player with the most fame wins the game.

“GeForce NOW can invite even more players to experience the Humankind journey,” said Romain de Waubert, studio head and chief creative officer at Amplitude Studios. “The service quickly and easily brings gamers into Humankind with beautiful PC graphics on nearly any device.”

As an awesome extra, players can unlock unique characters based on popular content creators, like GeForce NOW streamer Burke Black, by watching their Humankindstreams for unique drops.

Chapter 2 Season 7 of Fortnite also delivered a thrilling, new game mode. Members can play Fortnite “Impostors,” which recently was released on August 17.

Play in matches between four to 10 players of Agents versus Impostors on a brand new map - The Bridge. Agents win by completing minigame assignments to fill their progress bar or revealing all Impostors hiding among the team by calling discussions and voting out suspicious behavior.

While keeping their identity a secret, up to two Impostors will seek to eliminate enough Agents to overtake The Bridge. They can hide their status by completing assignments, which will benefit the progress of the Agent team, and have sneaky sabotage abilities to create chaos.

Whether playing as an Agent or as an Impostor, this game is set to be a great time. Stream it today on GeForce NOW.

The GeForce NOW rewards program is always looking to give members access to awesome rewards. This week brings a custom skin and custom emote for Eternal Return. Getting rewarded for streaming games on the cloud is easy. Members should make sure to check the box for Rewards in the GeForce NOW account portal and opt in to receive newsletters for future updates and upcoming reward spoils.

Finally, the complete list of games releasing this week can be found immediately below:

• Greak: Memories of Azur (day-and-date release on Steam, August 17)
• Humankind (day-and-date release on Steam and Epic Games Store, August 17)
• RiMS Racing (day-and-date release on Steam and Epic Games Store, August 19)
• Recompile (day-and-date release on Steam and Epic Games Store, August 19)
• Yooka-Laylee (free game of the week on Epic Games Store, August 19)
• The Architect: Paris (Epic Games Store)
• Arid (Steam)
• Road 96 (Steam and Epic Games Store)
• Wargame: European Escalation (Steam)