While bored in a meeting, I tried running Geforce Now on my web-browser. Observations from this short trial:
All in all, seems like worth 10€ a month if it works. I like the idea that you can play games you already own and do not need to re-buy them like on Stadia.
Does anyone have experience with Geforce Now to share with us?
- You can link Steam, Epic and Ubisoft accounts and play pretty much any AAA game you own on any machine capable of running modern web-browsers given your internet connection is good enough (10 Mbps is probably good enough with full bandwidth usage).
- They seem to have support for Chrome, Edge and Safari
- 1 h sessions cost nothing. Longer than that costs 10$/€ per month
- You do need to remember lots of passwords and do many 2-step authentications while setting your account up. Steam, Epic, and Ubisoft details are saved by the system. GOG details I am not sure about.
- Also some GOG games are supported. I tried The Witcher 3. It was running OK, even a bit laggy for some reason. The first trial was not as smooth as I am used with Stadia.
- The mouse in the Witcher 3 was horrible and different to the settings on my computer. I did manage to make it better by adjusting local settings. Didn't try long enough to find out whether the game was playable, but it still did not feel good.
- The keyboard shifts to, perhaps, a US keyboard. Knowing where the keys are supposed to be without any keyboard viewer was challenging. Uncertain whether this issue prevails on Desktop app which they seem to have.
- I tried Spellforce 3 from Steam to check whether my saved games where there. Did not find them, but again I did not remember my password for that game's online service. It seems that the service supports cloud sync but it is not possible to manually upload/download save files. Well, I guess as long as the cloud sync works, this will not be a problem but one has to check it for each game separately.
All in all, seems like worth 10€ a month if it works. I like the idea that you can play games you already own and do not need to re-buy them like on Stadia.
Does anyone have experience with Geforce Now to share with us?