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 2/3.

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.

Welcome to GeForce NOW Performance: Priority Members Get Instant Upgrade

This GFN Thursday, the GeForce NOW Priority membership is getting enhancements and a fresh name to go along with it. The new Performance membership offers more GeForce-powered premium gaming — at no change in the monthly membership cost.

Gamers having a hard time deciding between the Performance and Ultimate memberships can take them both for a spin with a Day Pass, now 25% off for a limited time. Day Passes give access to 24 continuous hours of powerful cloud gaming.

In addition, seven new games are available this week, joining the over 2,000 games in the GeForce NOW library.

Time for a Glow Up

The Performance membership keeps all the same great gaming benefits and now provides members with an enhanced streaming experience at no additional cost.

Performance members can stream at up to 1440p — an increase from the previous 1080p resolution — and experience games in immersive, ultrawide resolutions. They can also save their in-game graphics settings across streaming sessions, including for NVIDIA RTX features in supported titles.

All current Priority members are automatically upgraded to Performance and can take advantage of the upgraded streaming experience today.

Performance members will connect to GeForce RTX-powered gaming rigs for up to 1440p resolution. Ultimate members continue to receive the top streaming experience: connecting to GeForce RTX 4080-powered gaming rigs with up to 4K resolution and 120 frames per second, or 1080p and 240 fps in Competitive mode for games with support for NVIDIA Reflex technology.

Gamers playing on the free tier will now see they’re streaming from basic rigs, with varying specs that offer entry-level cloud gaming and are optimized for capacity.

At the start of next year, GeForce NOW will roll out a 100-hour monthly playtime allowance to continue providing exceptional quality and speed — as well as shorter queue times — for Performance and Ultimate members. This ample limit comfortably accommodates 94% of members, who typically enjoy the service well within this timeframe. Members can check out how much time they’ve spent in the cloud through their account portal (see screenshot example above).

Up to 15 hours of unused playtime will automatically roll over to the next month for members, and additional hours can be purchased at $2.99 for 15 additional hours of Performance, or $5.99 for 15 additional Ultimate hours.

Loyal Member Benefit

To thank the GFN community for joining the cloud gaming revolution, GeForce NOW is offering active paid members as of Dec. 31, 2024, the ability to continue with unlimited playtime for a full year until January 2026.

New members can lock in this feature by signing up for GeForce NOW before Dec. 31, 2024. As long as a member’s account remains uninterrupted and in good standing, they’ll continue to receive unlimited playtime for all of 2025.

Don’t Pass This Up

For those looking to try out the new premium benefits and all Performance and Ultimate memberships have to offer, Day Passes are 25% off for a limited time.

Whether with the newly named Performance Day Pass at $2.99 or the Ultimate Day Pass at $5.99, members can unlock 24 hours of uninterrupted access to powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX-powered cloud gaming servers.

Another new GeForce NOW feature lets users apply the value of their most recently purchased Day Pass toward any monthly membership if they sign up within 48 hours of the completion of their Day Pass.

Dive into a vast library of over 2,000 games with enhanced graphics, including NVIDIA RTX features like ray tracing and DLSS. With the Ultimate Day Pass, snag a taste of GeForce NOW’s highest-performing membership tier and enjoy up to 4K resolution 120 fps or 1080p 240 fps across nearly any device. It’s an ideal way to experience elevated GeForce gaming in the cloud.

Thrilling New Games

Members can look for the following games available to stream in the cloud this week:

• Planet Coaster 2 (New release on Steam, Nov. 6)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate (New release on Steam, Nov. 6)
• Empire of the Ants (New release on Steam, Nov. 7)
• Unrailed 2: Back on Track (New release on Steam, Nov. 7)
• TCG Card Shop Simulator (Steam)
• StarCraft II (Xbox, available on PC Game Pass, Nov. 5. Members need to enable access.)
• StarCraft Remastered (Xbox, available on PC Game Pass, Nov. 5. Members need to enable access.)