Five years after announcing the feature was on the way, Microsoft has finally rolled out the ability for Xbox game Pass Ultimate members to play “select” games they already own outside of the Xbox game Pass library via cloud streaming.
Microsoft originally announced the feature in 2019, with the goal of launching it alongside Xbox Cloud gaming (then known as Project xCloud) the following year. It was then re-announced for a 2022 release, but again failed to materialise, with The Verge later reporting that its arrival had been “complicated by having to prepare key infrastructure for thousands of games”.
However, last month news began to circulate that the long-in-the-works feature was finally almost here, and those reports have now been proven true. Microsoft has announced that Xbox game Pass Ultimate members can use Xbox Cloud gaming to stream games they own starting today, although only if they appear in its list of 50 currently supported titles.
Admittedly, that’s not a huge number of games considering the size of Xbox’s catalogue, but it’s a pretty solid list, combining blockbuster titles, old and new, with acclaimed indie games. Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars Outlaws, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Warhammer 4K: Space Marine 2, and Life is Strange: Double Exposure are all featured, as are Balatro, Hades, Animal Well, Dredge, Phasmophobia , The Brave Squire. The full list, as it currently stands, is available at the end of this story, with Microsoft adding that its “library of playable titles in the cloud will continue to grow as we work with our partners around the world.”
It also notes that streaming games via TVs and browsers will only be possible to begin with on compatible devices such as tablets, smartphones, and Meta Quest headsets, but says the feature will expand to Xbox consoles and the Xbox app on Windows in some time soon. year.
You’ll find instructions and a list of devices compatible with Microsoft’s new Xbox Cloud gaming feature (which coincidentally arrives just as PlayStation expands its own cloud gaming options) at Xbox Wire. Additionally, the list of 50 currently supported titles is below:
- animal pit
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage
- Avatar: Pandora’s Borders
- Balatro
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
- Frank Stone Casting
- 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
- hell
- Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
- High in life
- hitman world of assassination
- Hogwarts Legacy
- house flap 2
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
- Lego Harry Potter Collection
- Life is strange: double exposure
- Metro Exodus
- mortal kombat 1
- NBA 2K25
- PGA Tour 2K23
- phasmophobia
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Rust Console Edition
- 7 days to die
- Star Wars Outlaws
- Lost
- The Crew Motor Festival
- The latest tests
- The brave squire
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
- TopSpin 2K25
- undertale
- Visions of mana
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2
- WWE 2K24
