
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
12/02/2026
At leading institutions across the globe, the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop supercomputer is bringing data center class AI to lab benches, faculty offices and studen...
12/02/2026
A diagnostic insight in healthcare. A character's dialogue in an interactive...
12/02/2026
The GeForce NOW sixth-anniversary festivities roll on this February, continuing a monthlong celebration of NVIDIA's cloud gaming service.
This week brings ...
05/02/2026
Break out the cake and green sprinkles - GeForce NOW is turning six.
Since launch, members have streamed over 1 billion hours, and the party's just getting...
04/02/2026
Editor's note: This post is part of the Nemotron Labs blog series, which exp...
03/02/2026
At 3DEXPERIENCE World in Houston, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Dassau...
29/01/2026
Mercedes-Benz is marking 140 years of automotive innovation with a new S-Class b...
29/01/2026
Editor's note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on ...
29/01/2026
Get ready to game - the native GeForce NOW app for Linux PCs is now available in beta, letting Linux desktops tap directly into GeForce RTX performance from the...
28/01/2026
Quantum technologies are rapidly emerging as foundational capabilities for economic competitiveness, national security and scientific leadership in the 21st cen...
22/01/2026
AI-powered driver assistance technologies are becoming standard equipment, funda...
22/01/2026
The wait is over, pilots. Flight control support - one of the most community-requested features for GeForce NOW - is live starting today, following its announce...
22/01/2026
AI has taken center stage in financial services, automating the research and exe...
22/01/2026
AI-powered content generation is now embedded in everyday tools like Adobe and Canva, with a slew of agencies and studios incorporating the technology into thei...
21/01/2026
From skilled trades to startups, AI's rapid expansion is the beginning of th...
21/01/2026
From skilled trades to startups, AI's rapid expansion is the beginning of th...
15/01/2026
NVIDIA kicked off the year at CES, where the crowd buzzed about the latest gaming announcements - including the native GeForce NOW app for Linux and Amazon Fire...
13/01/2026
NVIDIA and Lilly are putting together a blueprint for what is possible in the f...
09/01/2026
Every that was easy shopping moment is made possible by teams working to hit s...
08/01/2026
The next universal technology since the smartphone is on the horizon - and it ma...
08/01/2026
In the rolling hills of Berkeley, California, an AI agent is supporting high-stakes physics experiments at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) particle accelerator....
08/01/2026
NVIDIA is wrapping up a big week at the CES trade show with a set of GeForce NOW...
07/01/2026
AI has transformed retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) operations, enhancin...
05/01/2026
At the CES trade show running this week in Las Vegas, NVIDIA announced that the ...
05/01/2026
Open-source AI is accelerating innovation across industries, and NVIDIA DGX Spar...
05/01/2026
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD is paving the way for large-scale system deployments built on the NVIDIA Rubin platform - the next leap forward in AI computing.
At the CES...
05/01/2026
AI is powering breakthroughs across industries, helping enterprises operate with...
05/01/2026
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at the Fontainebleau Las Vega...
05/01/2026
At the CES trade show, NVIDIA today announced DLSS 4.5, which introduces Dynamic...
05/01/2026
2025 marked a breakout year for AI development on PC.
PC-class small language m...
05/01/2026
Announced at the CES trade show running this week in Las Vegas, NVIDIA is bringi...
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...