Microsoft has announced that you can now stream your own games with Xbox Cloud Gaming, a feature bundled in with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Well, you can stream some of them, with the company limiting this to just 50 games to start with.
That’s a pretty limited opening salvo, though makes sense for Microsoft to gradually ramp the selection up – echoes of the original cloud gaming launch – instead of trying to cover thousands of Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S games from the off. Of course, since you need to have a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, this is in addition to all of the streamable games included within that (whether you own them outright or not).
Own game streaming is included in all 28 countries where Xbox Cloud Gaming is available, and is supported via TVs and browsers on smartphone, tablets and PC – note that the Xbox Game Pass app recently lost the ability to stream on Android, and never had it on iOS. Microsoft is working to build it into the Xbox app for Windows and on Xbox consoles in 2025.
Head to the Xbox site for compatible device guidelines and how to get started.
Notable games that are included in this launch list are Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. They’re all games that are unlikely to feature in Game Pass for the foreseeable future, and so are great ones to include here.
The 50 games available today are:
- Animal Well
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
- Balatro
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
- The Casting of Frank Stone
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
- Dredge
- Dying Light 2 Stay Human
- Farming Simulator 25
- Fear the Spotlight
- Final Fantasy XIV Online
- Final Fantasy
- Final Fantasy II
- Final Fantasy III
- Final Fantasy IV
- Final Fantasy V
- Final Fantasy VI
- Hades
- Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
- High On Life
- Hitman World of Assassination
- Hogwarts Legacy
- House Flipper 2
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
- Lego Harry Potter Collection
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure
- Metro Exodus
- Mortal Kombat 1
- NBA 2K25
- PGA Tour 2K23
- Phasmaphobia
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Rust Console Edition
- 7 Days to Die
- Star Wars Outlaws
- Stray
- The Crew Motorfest
- The Outlast Trials
- The Plucky Squire
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
- TopSpin 2K25
- Undertale
- Visions of Mana
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- WWE 2K24
When it was still known as Project xCloud in 2019, Microsoft confirmed their intention to let users start streaming their purchased games in 2020. While Xbox Cloud Gaming itself launched in 2020, purchased streaming was pushed back to 2022… but never materialised. Cloud Gaming has always been restricted to games in the Xbox Game Pass library, and even then isn’t necessarily universal. It’s great to finally have this feature added, even if it is rather limited.
Source: Xbox Wire