Sync and Stream: GeForce NOW Connects to Members’ Game Libraries Across Devices

Nvidia’s GeForce NOW cloud gaming service lets members stream their existing PC game libraries across phones, tablets, Macs and other devices without repurchasing titles, the company said in a blog post Thursday. The service supports thousands of games from storefronts including Steam, the Epic Game Store, GOG, Ubisoft+, the EA app and Xbox [1]. Steam, the largest PC game distribution platform, held an estimated 75 percent of the market as of 2013 and carried over 34,000 games by 2021 [4]. Games with cloud-save functionality keep progress synchronized, so a session started on one screen can be resumed on another [1]. GeForce NOW exited beta and launched to the general public on February 4, 2020, and is now available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, ChromeOS, Shield TV, Tizen, WebOS, the Steam Deck and several VR headsets [2]. The service traces its roots to Nvidia Grid, a cloud-gaming offering for Shield devices that debuted in 2013, and was rebranded as GeForce Now in 2015 with a $7.99 monthly subscription before being overhauled in 2019 to let users play their own titles [2]. GeForce NOW ambassador and creator Anytime Anywhere Gaming highlighted the cross-device benefit in a recent showcase. “One of the coolest benefits of GeForce NOW is I can take the same copy of the game I own on Steam and carry it to my iPhone … it’s super awesome being able to play a game on a multitude of devices without having to buy it again,” he said [1]. Nvidia is offering discounts on annual memberships for a limited time: $35 off a 12-month Performance plan and $70 off a 12-month Ultimate plan [1]. Performance memberships deliver high-quality streaming across devices, while the Ultimate tier unlocks GeForce RTX 5080-class hardware in the cloud, supporting up to 5K resolution and up to 120 frames per second, along with technologies such as Nvidia DLSS, ray tracing and Nvidia Reflex [1]. DLSS is a suite of deep-learning upscaling technologies available on all RTX-branded cards that allows the graphics pipeline to run at lower internal resolutions and infer a higher-resolution output, improving frame rates for a given setting [6]. The cloud-gaming market has seen both expansion and contraction. Google’s Stadia service launched publicly in November 2019, streaming at up to 4K resolution and 60 frames per second, but Google shut it down permanently on January 18, 2023, after abandoning plans to develop in-house games [3]. Nintendo’s hybrid Switch console, which shipped over 155 million units worldwide as of December 2025, competes in the portable-gaming space that GeForce NOW also targets by enabling AAA PC titles on mobile devices [5]. Seven new titles are joining the GeForce NOW library this week, including the Embers of the Uncrowned demo, Pro Cycling Manager 26, Aphelion, Citizen Sleeper, Megastore Simulator, OPERATOR and Super Meat Boy 3D [1].