The latest GeForce NOW Thursday press release reveals that NVIDIA’s cloud streaming library is getting 22 games this week, ten of which are released day and date on the cloud platform.
Highlights include Wayfinder, Airship Syndicate’s MMO-lite game due to launch later today on Steam Early Access; the long-awaited Jet Set Radio-inspired Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (out tomorrow); and three games we’ve reviewed in the past two days: Gord, Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Here’s what we thought of this trio.
Gord is an interesting and, at times, good, albeit flawed, survival city-builder mixed with action RPG and strategy elements. The atmosphere is excellently done, but this is countered by the sanity mechanics taking too much from the rest of the game. Almost every positive has a negative. The character development mechanics bring a fundamentally broken inventory system. The excellent monster development introduces a few that are just outright broken. The (sometimes) interesting campaign brings a near-opaque element of worldbuilding, requiring much side-reading as names are unceremoniously thrown at you. All in all, Gord isn’t a bad game, and while I can have a decent time of it, there are too many flaws to recommend it universally; hardcore strategy fans may apply. 6.5/10
Mimimi has made yet another fantastic real-time tactics title, and I would argue they’ve cemented their place at the top of the league (if there was one) of developers in the sub-genre. Shadow Gambit is also a huge game, a wide variety of missions and locations – plus the re-visits – brought me in at close to 50 hours, and I still have little things I can do. I would recommend it to anybody and everybody. Fans of the genre, and those new, you’re in for a treat. 9/10
Due to its lackluster beginner experience, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre might be a little obtuse for players unfamiliar with asymmetrical games. However, players with plenty of experience with the genre will find a wonderful treat with this game compared to more prominent titles such as Dead by Daylight, thanks to its potential for more skill-based gameplay. 7.5/10
Below, you can find the full list of the weekly GeForce NOW additions:
- Desynced (New release on Steam)
- Hammerwatch II (New release on Steam)
- Moving Out 2 (New release on Steam)
- The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood (New release on Steam)
- Book of Hours (New release on Steam)
- Gord (New release on Steam)
- Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew (New release on Steam)
- Wayfinder (New release on Steam)
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (New release on Steam)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (New release on Steam)
- Age of Wonders 4 (Epic Games Store)
- Amnesia: The Bunker (Epic Games Store)
- Darkest Dungeon II (Epic Games Store)
- F1 Manager 2023 (Epic Games Store)
- The Great War: Western Front (Epic Games Store)
- Inkbound (Steam)
- Kovaak’s FPS Trainer (Steam)
- The Outlast Trials (Epic Games Store)
- Project Highrise (Epic Games Store)
- Regiments (Steam)
- Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga (Epic Games Store)
- System Shock (Epic Games Store)
NVIDIA also discussed the GeForce NOW Ultimate Kovaak’s Challenge that started last week at QuakeCon. Unsurprisingly, NVIDIA says 98% of the users who tried Kovaak’s Challenge on the GeForce NOW Ultimate tier have seen improvements in their test results over the free tier.
Garrett ‘KovaaK’ Krutilla, Co-Founder and Director of FPS Design from The Meta, stated:
The GeForce NOW Ultimate membership provides a perfect place to train up on KovaaK’s, with access to powerful GeForce RTX 4080 servers for 240 fps streaming and ultra-low latency from NVIDIA Reflex. The scores that top players are getting on Ultimate prove that NVIDIA has made cloud gaming completely viable for competitive gamers in the FPS space.
The Challenge continues until September 21st. The first three spots in the leaderboard will get the following prizes:
- ASUS ROG Swift 240 Hz monitor
- ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX34 Flip
- ASUS ROG Azoth & ROG Gladius III Keyboard + Mouse Bundle
