Microsoft’s xCloud preview now has 50 new games, more than Stadia’s launch list
Microsoft is expanding its Project xCloud preview today, with the addition of 50 games. The software maker originally launched the xCloud preview with just five titles exactly a month ago, and it's now working with more than 25 partners to launch 50 games today. Titles include Madden NFL 20, Devil May Cry 5, Tekken 7, and Forza Horizon 4. This will give xCloud testers a lot more games to play, but also provide us with a better understanding of how the service will run for more demanding titles.
Microsoft isn't at the point where it's ready to launch Project xCloud as a full service with a monthly cost or subscription model, but these new titles will certainly make it more useful during the beta period. The new games arrive just as Google prepares to launch its Stadia game streaming service next week. Google is launching Stadia with at least 31 games from 21 different publishers, with an initial price of $130 for the hardware starter kit that gives you three months of service, which will be $10 a month afterward.
Microsoft is operating xCloud as a free preview, for now, but it's bound to combine this with its Xbox Game Pass offering at some point or launch it as some type of subscription service. Either way, having 50 games is more than Stadia's launch list right now and it shows the hurdles Google will need to overcome in order to get developers to publish games on Stadia. Google is also promising a lot more titles for 2020, and Microsoft will obviously expand xCloud next year as it continues to test the service.
Here's the full list of games available on xCloud today:
505 Games
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Avalanche Studios
• theHunter: Call of the Wild
Bandai Namco
• Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
• Rad
• Soulcalibur VI
• Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
• Tekken 7
Bigben Interactive
• WRC 7
Capcom
• Devil May Cry 5
Codemasters
• F1 2019
Curve Digital
• For the King
Devolver Digital
• Absolver
EA
• Madden NFL 20
Fatshark Games
• Vermintide 2
Focus Home Interactive
• Vampyr
Funcom
• Conan Exiles
• Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
IO Interactive
• Hitman
Klei Entertainment
• Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
Koch Media
• Dead Island: Definitive Edition
KRAFTON
• TERA
Mad Dog Games LLC
• World War Z
Pearl Abyss
• Black Desert Online
Rebellion
• Sniper Elite 4
SEGA
• Puyo Puyo Champions
Square Enix
• Just Cause 4
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
• World of Final Fantasy Maxima
Studio Wildcard
• ARK: Survival Evolved
Take-Two Interactive
• Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
• WWE 2K20
Team17
• Overcooked!
• Yoku's Island Express
THQ Nordic
• Battle Chasers: Nightwar
• Darksiders 3
tinyBuild
• Hello Neighbor
Unknown Worlds
• Subnautica
Wargaming
• World of Tanks: Mercenaries
• World of Warships: Legends
Xbox Game Studios
• Crackdown 3
• Forza Horizon 4
• Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
• Gears 5 (already available on xCloud)
• Halo 5: Guardians (already available on xCloud)
• Halo Wars 2
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
• Killer Instinct (already available on xCloud)
• Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
• ReCore: Definitive Edition
• Sea of Thieves (already available on xCloud)
• State of Decay 2
• The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut