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 GFN Thursday, brings in hordes of fun — and a whole lot of orcs. Orcs Must Die! 3, the newest title from the action-packed, orc-slaying series from Robot Entertainment, is joining the GeForce NOW library when it releases this week on Friday, July 23.  

In addition, 10 more games are coming to the service this week.

Orcs Must Die! 3 (Steam) challenges players to slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and give it all they’ve got to keep massive hordes of orcs at bay across the battlefield in an effort to secure the castle walls and victory. Battle with a buddy or slay your enemies solo against enormous orc armies with weapons and traps of your choice.

Players can experience all-new war scenarios that pit players against overwhelming legions of orcs. But don’t worry, players have an arsenal of magic, weapons and new War Machines: traps on an oversized scale that range from mega flip traps that launch orcs ragdolling off the castle walls to mega boom barrel launchers that unleash pyrotechnic glory.

Enjoy a new and exciting story set 20 years after the previous game with fresh characters. Play for glory in weekly challenges to see how long you can survive in Endless Mode to put your name on the leaderboard. Then, survive Scramble Mode and face off against evolving orcs with sinister surprises. Finally, take things a step further in the Drastic Steps campaign as the mayhem takes to the skies against flying orcs.

With Orcs Must Die! 3 releasing on Steam and joining the GeForce NOW library, more gamers than ever before can experience the thrill of stomping orcish hordes — regardless of their low-powered rigs.

“We love that our players can experience all of the action and all of the orcs on any GeForce NOW compatible device,” said Patrick Hudson, CEO at developer Robot Entertainment. “It’s great that players who may not have powerful devices can still play the real PC version of our game at orc-slaying power.”

Members can get ready to slay and play Orcs Must Die! 3 on GeForce NOW when it releases tomorrow, July 23.

Game Time

This week’s newest additions to the GeForce NOW library of more than 1,000 games include the dark fairytale RPG, Cris Tales (Steam and Epic Games Store), the strategy game, Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector (Steam and Epic Games Store), the dark indie game, Death's Door(Steam), the aerial combat MMO action game, World of Warplanes (Steam)and the action-packed game with a thrilling new storyline, Alan Wake's American Nightmare (Epic Games Store).

The complete list of games releasing this week is below:

• Cris Tales (day-and-date release on Steam and on Epic Games Store, July 20)
• Death's Door (day-and-date release on Steam, July 20)
• Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector (day-and-date release on Steam and Epic Games Store, July 22)
• Orcs Must Die! 3 (day-and-date release on Steam, July 23)
• Alan Wake’s American Nightmare (Epic Games Store)
• Arcana Heart 3 LOVEMAX SIXSTARS!!!!!! XTEND (Steam)
• Disgaea 2 PC (Steam)
• Edge of Eternity (Epic Games Store)
• Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition (Epic Games Store)
• Siege Survival: Gloria Victis (Epic Games Store)
• World of Warplanes (Steam)