Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service is now open for public signups. There’s a free plan that gives you access through some kind of a queue in 1 hour increments, and a founder’s plan that’s basically $60 for 12 months + a three free month trial.
I signed up for the paid plan just to try Control on RTX hardware, but honestly at this price it’s something I’d stay constantly subscribed to just to have access to when traveling. Seems too cheap to be true.
I like that it will let you play your existing games library without forcing you to buy into a new one. But I’ll let you guys guinea pig this thing and read your impressions.
Messed around with free tier. Easy to get installed. Was a tad janky to get game connected. It loads up and wants you to login to STEAM. Then it just loads the page of the game up in a STEAM page. Didn’t know what to do then. After going ahead and clicking play it “installs” but takes a second. Guess its a placeholder of some sort. Tried out Hitman reboot. Granted its not a Twitch game but felt like I was playing locally. Got a warning about a “spotty connection” once for a few seconds but other than that was solid.
This isn’t a subscription service in that sense. You need to own the games on the appropriate PC games store to play them. So I doubt there are business concerns re: Game Pass (e.g. exclusivity, if that’s what you were implying)
Onlive also didn’t allow you to play games you already owned on Steam. They had some free games and then there were games you had to outright purchase. Also their library of games sucked.
Has anyone found a list of supported games somewhere? Nvidia’s page just gives me a search function. I’ve entered any games I could think of, and very few of the ones that came to my mind were supported, so I wonder what games actually are supported. (Search terms I tried but got no hits on: Control, Battlefield, Battlefront, Jedi, Anthem, Mass Effect, Call of Duty (first hit! They seem to support all? of the Call of Duty games), GTA, Overload, Descent, DiRT (second hit! They seem to support 4 DiRT games), Far Cry (hit! They seem to support Far Cry 4 onward), dark souls (hit! They support all Dark Souls games), Rebel Galaxy, and a few others). They seem to not support most things I searched for, but they do support quite a few compared to Stadia I guess.
