
New year, new games, all with RTX 5080-powered cloud energy. GeForce NOW is kicking off 2026 by looking back at an unforgettable year of wins and wildly high frame rates.
From streams of the biggest blockbusters to new ways to play anywhere, members showed all year what happens when great games meet serious GeForce performance in the cloud.
Grab a cozy spot, queue up a game and ring in the new year with GeForce NOW, starting with a fresh list of 14 titles coming to the cloud this January, with 5 available to stream this week..
Put a Bow on It The star upgrade of 2025 was the arrival of NVIDIA Blackwell RTX in the cloud, bringing GeForce RTX 5080 power to the GeForce NOW Ultimate membership tier along with all the NVIDIA technologies that 50 Series GPU owners have access to, including DLSS 4 and 5K 120 frames-per-second (fps) streaming.
The amazing announcement of the RTX 5080 being added to GeForce NOW with features like DLSS 4 and 5K 120 fps streaming was a true game-changer for cloud gaming, said Nads from Cloud&Console.
Luna, a GeForce NOW Discord community modder, called out how the Ultimate tier let her go topside in ARC Raiders and explore Castor Woods in Dying Light: The Beast in areas where my local machine struggles - and now, the RTX 5080-powered cloud can push them even further.
GeForce NOW had major day-and-date launches of blockbuster titles including ARC Raiders and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 - and the community packed in some unforgettable sessions to celebrate. Nads summed up the smoothness: Vaulting into Borderlands 4, surviving Grounded with friends and diving into Battlefield 6 chaos - all of it was seamless on GeForce NOW this year.
For Warwick, cloud gaming turned into a superpower: I've always struggled to play Fortnite with my friends while streaming, but with GeForce NOW, I've been able to jump straight in with ease and get those victory royales, the gamer said. One highlight of their year was seeing all the incredible things coming to GeForce NOW at Gamescom, including Fortnite with Discord - game changer!
Full steam ahead with the cloud. 2025 belonged to members who play literally anywhere. The native GeForce NOW app elevated gaming on Steam Deck, making it easier than ever to play the cloud gaming platform's 2,000+ supported games from Steam, Epic Games Store, Game Pass and more - all at GeForce RTX quality on the handheld device.
Anytime Anywhere Gaming gave a shoutout to the release of ARC Raiders and continued Steam Deck support, calling it nothing short of amazing to take on raiders and play beloved titles on Steam Deck at max fidelity.
The Install-to-Play feature brought even more titles to members. Install-to-Play has brought in so many games, said creator Cloudy With Games. Take a gamble on Slots and Daggers, it's worth it.
Installing fun, please stand by. Creator RuDiggz put it this way: Install-to-Play breathes new life into favorites like Pixelmancer, mobilizing indies with the cloud from my desktop to my phone on the go. For those chasing maximum freedom and fidelity, he added, GeForce NOW Ultimate is the only way to play thousands of titles at max settings - no hardware minimums. GeForce NOW has the frames and the games.
The Ultimate Winners The Ultimate Contest gave members a chance to share their favorite cloud gaming moments and show off what GeForce RTX 5080-class power can do. From stunning action moments to creative showcases, the submissions proved why the Ultimate experience stands out.
A huge GG to our top 10 winners: pfoglista, danipeter007+gfn, brunocas_300, Studmuffin9398, patanaimuje, dufranklin4, despandan4, chandabenr, andreaosmani222 and Lyreliarlyre. Those who joined in earned two Ultimate Day Passes - one to enjoy and one to share with a friend - plus one year of an Ultimate membership.
Pfoglista's video really captured how GeForce NOW Ultimate feels exactly like playing on a local PC, highlighting how fast, competitive, low latency cloud gaming can look and feel every bit as precise as playing on a local high end rig.
New Year, New Games Members can look for the following to play this week:
My Winter Car (New release on Steam, Dec. 29)
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden (Xbox, available on Game Pass)
The Casting of Frank Stone (Xbox, available on Game Pass)
Eternights (Epic Games Store)
Warhammer 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2 (Epic Games Store, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
GeForce RTX 5080-Ready Games, in addition to Warhammer 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2
Factorio (Steam)
Catch the full list of games coming to the cloud in January:
StarRupture (New release on Steam, Jan. 6)
Pathologic 3 (New release on Steam, Jan. 9)
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check (New release on Steam, Jan. 12)
MIO: Memories in Orbit (New release on Steam and Xbox, available on Game Pass, Jan. 20)
Nova Roma (New release Steam, Jan. 22)
Guild Wars: Reforged (Steam)
Mon Bazou (Steam)
Supermarket Simulator (Xbox, available on Game Pass)
Tavern Keeper (Steam)
Decked-Out December In addition to the 30 games announced in December, an extra seven joined over the month:
Fallout: New Vegas (Steam, Epic Games Store and Xbox, available on PC Game Pass)
Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel (Epic Games Store)
Monster Hunter Stories (Steam)
Monster Hunter Stories 2 (Steam)
Pioner (Steam)
RuneQuest: Warlords (Steam)
Skate Story (Steam)
What are you planning to play this weekend? Let us know on X or in the comments below.
What has been your favorite game so far this year?
NVIDIA GeForce NOW (@NVIDIAGFN) December 30, 2025
More from Nvidia
01/01/2026
New year, new games, all with RTX 5080-powered cloud energy. GeForce NOW is kicking off 2026 by looking back at an unforgettable year of wins and wildly high fr...
25/12/2025
Holiday lights are twinkling, hot cocoa's on the stove and gamers are settling in for a well-earned break.
Whether staying in or heading on a winter getawa...
22/12/2025
The works of Plato state that when humans have an experience, some level of change occurs in their brain, which is powered by memory - specifically long-term me...
18/12/2025
NVIDIA will join the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Genesis Mission as a ...
18/12/2025
Top-notch options for AI at the desktops of developers, engineers and designers ...
18/12/2025
Step out of the vault and into the future of gaming with Fallout: New Vegas streaming on GeForce NOW, just in time to celebrate the newest season of the hit Ama...
17/12/2025
The Hao AI Lab research team at the University of California San Diego - at the forefront of pioneering AI model innovation - recently received an NVIDIA DGX B...
17/12/2025
Editor's note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on ...
15/12/2025
NVIDIA today announced it has acquired SchedMD - the leading developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for high-performance computing (HPC) ...
15/12/2025
Modern workflows showcase the endless possibilities of generative and agentic AI on PCs.
Of many, some examples include tuning a chatbot to handle product-supp...
12/12/2025
In Las Vegas's T-Mobile Arena, fans of the Golden Knights are getting more than just hockey - they're getting a taste of the future. ADAM, a robot devel...
11/12/2025
Unveiling what it describes as the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work, OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 today. The model was trained and deplo...
11/12/2025
Hunters, saddle up - adventure awaits in the cloud.
Journey into the world of M...
10/12/2025
The NVIDIA accelerated computing platform is leading supercomputing benchmarks once dominated by CPUs, enabling AI, science, business and computing efficiency w...
10/12/2025
The world's top-performing system for graph processing at scale was built on...
10/12/2025
As the scale and complexity of AI infrastructure grows, data center operators need continuous visibility into factors including performance, temperature and pow...
04/12/2025
Developers, researchers, hobbyists and students can take a byte out of holiday s...
04/12/2025
Editor's note: The Game Pass edition of Hogwarts Legacy' will also be supported on GeForce NOW when the Steam and Epic Games Store versions launch on t...
03/12/2025
The top 10 most intelligent open-source models all use a mixture-of-experts arch...
02/12/2025
Today, Mistral AI announced the Mistral 3 family of open-source multilingual, multimodal models, optimized across NVIDIA supercomputing and edge platforms.
M...
02/12/2025
At AWS re:Invent, NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services expanded their strategic collab...
01/12/2025
Researchers worldwide rely on open-source technologies as the foundation of their work. To equip the community with the latest advancements in digital and physi...
27/11/2025
Black Friday is leveling up. Get ready to score one of the biggest deals of the season - 50% off the first three months of a new GeForce NOW Ultimate membership...
25/11/2025
Black Forest Labs - the frontier AI research lab developing visual generative AI models - today released the FLUX.2 family of state-of-the-art image generation ...
24/11/2025
Editor's note: This post is part of the AI On blog series, which explores the latest techniques and real-world applications of agentic AI, chatbots and copi...
20/11/2025
Editor's note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners and enterprises can transform their workflows u...
20/11/2025
The NVIDIA Blackwell RTX upgrade is nearing the finish line, letting GeForce NOW Ultimate members across the globe experience true next-generation cloud gaming ...
20/11/2025
Tanya Berger-Wolf's first computational biology project started as a bet wit...
18/11/2025
Timed with the Microsoft Ignite conference running this week, NVIDIA is expandin...
18/11/2025
Today, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthropic is scaling its rapidly growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, powere...
18/11/2025
AI agents have the potential to become indispensable tools for automating complex tasks. But bringing agents to production remains challenging.
According to Ga...
17/11/2025
NVIDIA Apollo - a family of open models for accelerating industrial and computat...
17/11/2025
To power future technologies including liquid-cooled data centers, high-resoluti...
17/11/2025
At SC25, NVIDIA unveiled advances across NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, next-generation networking, quantum computing, national research, AI physics and more - as accel...
17/11/2025
Across quantum physics, digital biology and climate research, the world's researchers are harnessing a universal scientific instrument to chart new frontier...
17/11/2025
It used to be that computing power trickled down from hulking supercomputers to ...
14/11/2025
Today's AI workloads are data-intensive, requiring more scalable and afforda...
13/11/2025
Editor's note: This post is part of the AI On blog series, which explores the latest techniques and real-world applications of agentic AI, chatbots and copi...
13/11/2025
Chaos has entered the chat. It's GFN Thursday, and things are getting intense with the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, streaming at launch this week on...
12/11/2025
In the age of AI reasoning, training smarter, more capable models is critical to scaling intelligence. Delivering the massive performance to meet this new age r...
12/11/2025
Large language model (LLM)-based AI assistants are powerful productivity tools, but without the right context and information, they can struggle to provide nuan...
10/11/2025
Editor's note: This post is part of Think SMART, a series focused on how lea...
06/11/2025
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and chief scientist Bill Dally were honored ...
06/11/2025
Editor's note: This blog has been updated to reflect the correct launch date for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7', November 14.
A crisp chill's in the...
04/11/2025
In Berlin on Tuesday, Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA unveiled the world's first...
04/11/2025
When inspiration strikes, nothing kills momentum faster than a slow tool or a frozen timeline. Creative apps should feel fast and fluid - an extension of imagin...
03/11/2025
Two out of every three people are likely to be living in cities or other urban c...
31/10/2025
Amidst Gyeongju, South Korea's ancient temples and modern skylines, Jensen H...
30/10/2025
An unassuming van driving around rural India uses powerful AI technology that...
30/10/2025
Get ready, raiders - the wait is over. ARC Raiders is dropping onto GeForce NOW and bringing the fight from orbit to the screen.
To celebrate the launch, gamer...