Nvidia GeForce Now review: a great option for eclectic, on-the-go gamers

Nvidia GeForce Now: Two-minute review

GeForce Now (GFN) is a monster cloud game streaming service. With three distinct payment tiers – each providing access to gaming rigs of differing power levels and over 1,800 top games to play through them – it’s one of the most comprehensive cloud gaming services around. It’s not without its downfalls, and it may be better suited to a specific kind of gamer, but there’s a lot to like about GeForce Now. Not least the ability to play games in all their Ray Traced glory on an RTX 4080 equivalent rig, from wherever you have good internet access.

One big draw for GFN users is the option of a free tier, and even a reasonably priced day pass should the mood strike you on your day off. In fact, there’s a great deal of choice for GFN users depending on what you’re willing to spend. Spend nothing and there’s going to be a couple of big caveats. For one thing, Nvidia reserves the right to sell free tier users’ data (including your IP address) to its partners. Aside from that little nugget, GeForce Now’s free tier offers only one-hour-long sessions with ads between them, which means depending on the game you’re playing and the server popularity, you could be waiting in a queue for a while each time you’re booted to the lobby.