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.
This week’s GFN Thursday shines a light on some of the amazing indie games available. GFN Thursday also highlights Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (indie!) getting DLSS support later this week, the Worms Rumble (indie!!) free weekend on Steam – happening Thursday through Sunday – and 11 new games (many of which are indies!!!) coming to the GeForce NOW library this week.
In an effort that’s sure to make President Whitmore proud, we’re celebrating our independent studios this week. Indies are at the heart of PC gaming and GFN wouldn’t have the amazing content library it has today without the nearly 300 indie titles on the service.
Valheim has shot right up the Steam most played charts. And, with GeForce NOW, Coffee Stain Studios and Iron Gate AB are able to get the game into even more gamers’ hands.
“We launched Valheim in early access on Steam, and immediately NVIDIA helped us bring it to more gamers with GeForce NOW. That way, even Mac users can play Valheim,” said Henrik Törnqvist, lead game designer on Valheim at Iron Gate AB
Terraria is another one of the most-played PC games. This indie darling from Re-Logic brings in new fans while making it playable on more devices for existing ones.
“Streaming Terraria on GeForce NOW makes perfect sense to us. We have always sought out ways to make our game as accessible to as many people as possible. GFN helps accomplish that goal by giving our players the ability to play on any device they want, without any added development work on our side. We’re looking forward to seeing both new and existing players enjoy all that Terraria has to offer, whether that be via the more traditional PC/console/mobile route or streaming from the cloud,” said Ted Murphy, head of business strategy and marketing at Re-Logic.
Look! Streaming from the Sky!
It’s super sampling! When games take advantage of NVIDIA technology like DLSS 2.0 (deep learning super sampling), GeForce NOW members can reap the benefits. Recent examples include War Thunder, and — just this week — Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.It’s yet another way GeForce NOW supports future indie development.
Once You’ve Had Worm
Since GFN streams the PC versions of games from popular digital stores, when a promotion happens — like Team17’s Worms Rumble free weekend, happening Thursday through Sunday — members are able to participate, instantly.
GFN’s Eleven
Danny and Rusty will happily report that there are 11 new games coming to GeForce NOW this week. Topping the list is the launch of Hellish Quart. Now available on Steam for 15% off, Kubold’s sword-dueling game includes intense physics and motion-captured fencing techniques.
This week’s complete list of games includes:
- Assassin's Creed I: Director's Cut (Epic Games Store)
- Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game (Steam)
- Day of Infamy (Steam)
- Dusk Diver (Steam)
- Going Under (Steam)
- Hellish Quart (Steam)
- Home Behind 2 (Steam)
- Lumberjack's Dynasty (Steam)
- Rise of Industry (Steam)
- Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 (Steam)
- South Park: The Stick of Truth (Steam)
As always, you can visit the games page for a complete list of the games available on GeForce NOW.