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.
GFN Thursday arrives alongside the sweet Steam Summer Sale — with hundreds of PC games playable on GeForce NOW available during Valve’s special event for PC gamers.
Also on sale, OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II join the GeForce NOW library as a part of five new games coming to the service this week.
Saved by the Sale
Get great games at great deals to stream across your devices during the Steam Summer Sale. In total, more than 1,000 titles can be found at discounts of up to 90% through July 13.
Grow your game collection with some top picks.
Enjoy iconic Xbox Game Studios hits from the Age of Empires series — even on Mac — thanks to the cloud. Control an empire with the goal of expanding to become a flourishing civilization. Age of Empires II arrives to the GeForce NOW library this week, joining Age of Empires, Age of Empires III and Age of Empires IV.
Stream Square Enix games at beautiful quality on underpowered PCs with heart-wrenching single-player stories like Life is Strange 2 and Life is Strange: True Colors, or battle it out with a squad in the dark sci-fi universe of Outriders.
Become a Viking, sail the open sea and fight monsters in the world of Valheim, or play a spooky game of hide-and-seek as a Ghost or a Hunter in Midnight Ghost Hunt. Take these titles from publisher Coffee Stain Studios on the go playing on nearly any Android or iOS mobile device.
Tune in on the big screen with NVIDIA SHIELD TVs for THQ Nordic favorites. Return to an apocalyptic Earth in the hack-n-slash adventure Darksiders III, or terrorize the people of 1950s Earth as an evil alien in Destroy All Humans!
Experience these titles and 1,600+ other games on GeForce NOW with all of the perks of an Ultimate membership, including RTX 4080 quality, support for 4K 120 frames per second gameplay and ultrawide resolutions, and the longest gaming sessions on the cloud.
Priority and Ultimate members can also experience DLSS 3 and RTX ON for real-time cinematic lighting in supported games.
Choose Your Path
Visit faraway realms playing OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II from Square Enix — also on sale on Steam. Members can even start their traveler journey with the OCTOPATH TRAVELER II Prologue demo.
Explore the story of eight travelers hailing from different regions who are set on vastly different ventures. Step into their shoes and use their unique talents to make decisions that will shape your path and aid you along your journey in these two award-winning role-playing games.
In OCTOPATH TRAVELER, engage in side quests and thrilling battles where every choice made by players shapes the storylines and destinies of these remarkable characters. Continue the adventure with OCTOPATH TRAVELER II and a fresh new set of eight travelers in the land of Solistia, a land comprising eastern and western continents divided by the sea.
It’s Good to Be the King
And that’s not all — five new games are joining the GeForce NOW library this week.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the world’s most popular real-time strategy games. Explore all the original campaigns like never before, spanning over 200 hours of gameplay and 1,000 years of human history. Rise to the challenge of leading four new civilizations, exclusive to the Definitive Edition, and head online to challenge other players in a bid for world domination throughout the ages.
Catch the full list of new titles available to find your next adventure:
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (New release on Steam, July 7)
- OCTOPATH TRAVELER (Steam)
- OCTOPATH TRAVELER II (Steam)
- OCTOPATH TRAVELER II Prologue Demo (Steam)
- Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (Steam)
Members can also experience Major League Baseball’s new Virtual Ballpark and be a part of MLB’s interactive All-Star Celebrity Softball Watch Party on Saturday, July 8. Supported by NVIDIA’s global cloud streaming infrastructure, fans will have frictionless access to high-fidelity interactive experiences. Register for the event.