Some fans of Nvidia’s cloud gaming service GeForce Now have been wrestling with a peculiar conundrum for a while now. If users had picked up a copy of one of the supported games from GOG rather than Steam, they just wouldn’t run on the service. It was a source of much frustration and disappointment for prospective players who wanted to play high-end games on low-end systems, but things are now looking more promising.
The issue lies in GeForce Now’s integration with Steam. If the app detects a copy of, say, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, it assumes it’s come from Steam, but if it was purchased from a site like GOG, any attempts to play it would simply take users to the Steam store page instead to buy the game again. Times are changing, though, as Nvidia is starting to roll out support for certain games on GOG.
Fans will have seen the first phase of this back in December at the launch of Cyberpunk 2077, when CD Projekt Red confirmed that the game would be the first GOG-enabled release on GeForce Now. Nvidia have now expanded that collection to include CDPR’s other mainstay, The Witcher, bringing GOG support for all three games to the service alongside a handful of others.
Other supported titles include spin-off Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, Stronghold: Warlords and classic card game Uno. The GOG support for the Witcher games is the big sell here, though, promising to bring the sprawling and beautiful world to lower-end systems and introduce a whole new demographic of players to Geralt’s story.
Nvidia doesn’t appear to be stopping there, either. The company alludes to future plans, including “even more events in cooperation with GOG in the future,” so expect to see extended support for more non-Steam copies of games coming soon, and potentially even collaboration with other services beyond that in the future.
Source: Nvidia
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