For GeForce NOW, it was five years since its inception. Happy birthday, really! The big day features Avowed, the wondrous new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment. Released a few days ago on February 18, it feels like just the gift for NVIDIA and all of us who love to play games without a care for hardware. Here is why this moment feels so nice.
A Milestone Birthday with a Fantasy Twist
It was as if they had an idea that we’d end up wanting to visit the Living Lands of Eora as early as possible, so they hit us right away with Avowed. It was as if they knew very clearly what we wanted—that it would go live now with no waiting, no downloading, just a super straight-up cloud-streamed awesome experience.
I’ve been scrolling through X, and all the people talk about it glowing beautifully with green forests and those magical-type things coming off the screen. It’s huge because Avowed is not just an ordinary game but a fantasy epic with soul, and it is NVIDIA who paved the way for us to play it the moment it dropped. It’s really the kind of birthday surprise that reminds you again of your childhood.
Cloud Gaming Levels Up with ‘Avowed’
Well, here’s the thing about GeForce NOW: You don’t need some crazy-god-specs gaming rig to run Avowed. I actually ran it on my old laptop the other day-nothing fancy, just for some emailing-and beep, I was in the business of sword-swinging and spell-casting, like on a top-class gaming console. Such are the wonders of cloud gaming.
Users X have echoed the same sentiment: ‘No lag, clean images, RTX is perfect.’ Crazy to think that such a behemoth game with a lot of details gets streamed so easily to whatever device happens to be readily available. For me, this is a crystal clear indication that gaming is opening its doors for anyone and Avowed is the perfect poster child for this change.
Five Years of Growth Fuels the Future
GeForce NOW has totally evolved since its 2020 beginnings. The service promised: “stream games and forget about the hardware headaches.” Now? A true powerhouse with over 2,000 titles and counting! The library will grow even larger with the release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and Civilization VII later this year. I love their motto: make gaming easy and make it awesome. And by exhibiting Avowed, they share what RTX-4080 performance is like: good-looking and good-running.
Five years later, this is not just a victory lap; it is NVIDIA saying, “Hey, we are just getting started.” And as someone who has been burned by a certain dying graphics card, I am so behind this cloud takeover.
What’s Next for GeForce NOW and ‘Avowed’?
I’m playing Avowed right now, and it’s already wonderful—with combat crunch that has so much presence, combining magic and melee keeps me on my toes, while the story evolves with each decision I make. Streaming on GeForce NOW feels like a natural thing to do; it seems the game was built for it. That is, there are also big titles coming in 2025, from NVIDIA—just expect the bar to be raised. Cloud gaming is fumbling out of the gate-there are more people joining into it, and platforms like this are key. For Avowed, early days, but a big win for someone wanting to see Eora without shells. The fifth anniversary is a milestone, launching what comes next.