Another Thursday means another GeForce NOW Thursday, with ten new games entering NVIDIA's cloud gaming service, led by the mountain climbing narrative game Cairn and The Bard's Tale Trilogy, while the newly revealed Linux-native GeForce NOW app enters beta.
Cairn is the latest game from The Game Bakers, the indie team behind games like Furi and Haven. It continues the studio's tradition of sticking to making something completely new genre-wise, while keeping a strong narrative focus. It was one of Wccftech's Most Anticipated Adventure Games for the year, and it's out today on PC and PS5. It's even already a game of the year contender, if early reviews are to be believed. It's also one of the five games that are RTX 5080-ready for GeForce NOW users.
As for the other brand-new RTX 5080-ready games, players will be able to take full advantage of the power of an RTX 5080 with the new first-person extraction zombie shooter, The Midnight Walkers, the physics-based medieval combat simulator Half-Sword, and the open-world adventure Vampires: Bloodlord Rising. The final RTX 5080-ready game is Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, which is now available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers.
Here's the full list of games entering the GeForce NOW library this week:
- The Midnight Walkers (New release on Steam, Jan. 28, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
- Cairn (New release on Steam, Jan. 29, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
- Prototype (New release on Ubisoft Connect, Jan. 29)
- Prototype 2 (New release on Ubisoft Connect, Jan. 29)
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (New release on Xbox, available on Game Pass, Jan. 29, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
- Half Sword (New release on Steam, Jan.30, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
- Vampires: Bloodlord Rising (New release on Steam, Jan. 30, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
- The Bard’s Tale Trilogy (Steam and Xbox, available on Game Pass)
- The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut (Steam and Xbox, available on Game Pass)
- Total War: Three Kingdoms (Epic Games Store)
Meanwhile, the Linux-native GeForce NOW app has officially entered its beta phase this week, with the desktop app going "beyond the earlier Linux experience that was tuned specifically for Steam Decks," NVIDIA writes, as this app (available for Ubuntu 24.04 and later) makes it easier than ever to use GeForce NOW on Linux devices.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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