GeForce Now Leak Reveals Over 18,000+ games – Coming Soon! - Ultimate Guide

Video game news is… usually worthless. Most sites that do it have a certain notoriety these days, mostly for just being bad at their job. The big names like IGN, Kotaku, and Polygon have all had their fair share of controversy in the past couple of years. IGN infamously gives box-standard FPS games like Call of Duty 9/10 while snubbing other deserving games (like PlayCroco Casino, the bestest, awesomest collection of games of allll time!).

Kotaku and Polygon, meanwhile, employ journalists who seem to actively dislike playing video games. I get it. Video games are not for everyone… but why would you become a video game journalist then? There’s some hilarious internal footage from Journalist Dean Takahashi that was leaked, where he spent 15 minutes on a tutorial for a game called “Cuphead”… that took a five year old 5 minutes. And when the journalist isn't merely incompetent, they can be actively corrupt. Like, actually taking bribes for reviews and insider info. Look into the case of Zoe Quinn and GamerGate. But I'm not here to explain GamerGate because screwwww that!

My point is, gaming news usually ain't very reliable. Insider "leaks" often seem like carefully controlled marketing ploys to increase the hype. Big companies with big money have this sort of incestuous relationship with the news (much like the Political elite and Mainstream news). So when I saw a clickbait title regarding thousands of leaked games, I was ready to be disappointed.

Plot twist: I was not.

GeForce Now

If you're unfamiliar with the service, GeForce Now is a cloud-gaming platform similar to Google's Stadia. The idea is that you can pay for a subscription and access a library of games, which you can play on Nvidia's servers, and stream the game to your computer. The advantage of this, in theory, is that you don't need a good computer anymore to play high end games. The game is being played in some massive server farm somewhere, and your computer is just displaying it. Since I've never used the service itself (and likely never will), I won't comment on its quality. All I'm saying is, if you've ever had Netflix buffer on you before, I can't imagine streaming an entire video game to be much better.

The other problem with it is that there is a limited selection of games available. At the moment, it supports about a thousand different games, which sounds like a lot, but is a drop in the bucket compared to Steam. Or itch. Or GoG. (Although, the Epic platform still hasn't quite reached those numbers yet). Still, the point stands.

Again, I'm not here so much to comment on GeForce Now itself. What interests me more is what a user going by the handle "Igor" discovered, almost by accident. Written in a blog post here, he goes over how he managed to get hold of a list of every video game project connected to Nvidia GeForce. I didn't really quite understand the technical side of things, but Igor was basically just interested in running games that weren't officially available on the service yet but were stored on Nvidia's servers and software.

The Leak, What We Know, What We Don't

So what does this list actually contain? Well, first of all, all of this was obviously supposed to be confidential. None of the names in this list could end up being the final titles that are expected to drop. For instance, the somewhat lamely titled “Bioshock 2022”, while exciting for fans of the franchise, is probably going to be renamed before it’s released. The other major disclaimer is that only a handful of the games on this list are confirmed. A great number of these projects could be bug tests, placeholders, or even code names for other projects. There's no guarantee that any of them will be released or even added to GeForce Now's service (as confirmed by an Nvidia Spokesman here). You can find the full list here.

With that out of the way, here are some of the most exciting finds – compiled by Reddit user "-LastGrail-":

Sony:

While this list features some exciting titles, Sony has its own service called PlayStation Now that offers streaming. While it's cool that their games are being tested for PC, these titles likely won't come to PC for a long while yet (if ever). Bloodbourne, Spiderman, and The Last of Us weren't included.
⦁    Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Edition
⦁    HELLDIVERS 2
⦁    Horizon Forbidden West
⦁    GT7
⦁    Déraciné
⦁    God of War
⦁    Returns
⦁    Demon Souls
⦁    Ratchet and Clank (no specified game)
⦁    Sackboy: A Big Adventure
⦁    Ghost of Tsushima

Microsoft:

Several of these projects are confirmed to be codenames for other games.
⦁    Gears 6
⦁    Oxide Unannounced
⦁    Untitled The Initiative Game
⦁    Halo 5: Guardians
⦁    Avowed
⦁    Kalimba
⦁    Indus
⦁    Gravity
⦁    *Project Holland
⦁    **Project Typhoon
⦁    ***Project Woodstock
* Is actually “Fable”
**...”Contraband”
***...and “Forza”, respectively

Square Enix:

⦁    Chrono Cross Remaster
⦁    FF Tactics remaster
⦁    FF7 Remake
⦁    FF9 Remake
⦁    FF 16
⦁    Tomb Raider Anniversary (2021)
⦁    Unannounced title by Square Enix
⦁    Kingdom Hearts IV

Capcom:

After Capcom released remakes for Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3, the fact that a remake of 4 is on the way isn’t really surprising. Still, it’s nice that that’s confirmed now.
⦁    Resident Evil 4 Remake
⦁    Street Fighter 6
⦁    Dragons Dogma 2
⦁    Monster Hunter 6

Take-Two: (owns Bioshock IP and Rockstar):

⦁    GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas Remasters
⦁    Bioshock RTX remaster
⦁    Bioshock 2022

EA:

⦁    Mirrors Edge RTX Remaster
⦁    Untitled Respawn Game
⦁    Titanfall 3

Bandai Namco:

⦁    Tekken 8

Curve Digital:

⦁    Human Fall Flat 2

Devolver Digital:
⦁    The Talos Principle 2

Crytek:

⦁    Crysis 4

D3 Publisher Inc:

⦁    Earth Defence Force 6

Sega:
⦁    Bayonetta 3
⦁    Judgment

Atlus:

⦁    Catherine Full Body
⦁    Shin Megami Tensei V

WB:

Let’s just hope it runs better than the last PC port of Arkham Knight.
⦁    Batman: Arkham Knight RTX Remaster

Valve:

⦁    Half-Life 2 Remastered

Paradox:

⦁    Project FPS

Here are some additional games compiled over on Reddit that look really exciting:
⦁    Xcom 3
⦁    Injustice 3: Gods will Fall
⦁    Destroy all Humans 3
⦁    MGS 2 & 3 HD
⦁    Mario and Rabbids
⦁    Death Stranding Directors Cut PC
⦁    Sniper Elite 5
⦁    City Skylines 2

Whether any of these will come to fruition, I have no idea. I'm personally most excited for Xcom 3, but I suspect that it's still a long way off. Team Solomon, who has made the last three X-Com games, is currently working on something else that's supposed to be dropping in 2022.

As a bit of tangent, I've just googled what the Xcom Team has been working on- and apparently, it's an RPG tactics game set the Marvel universe called “Midnight Suns”, and its trailer features a cover of Metallica's "Enter Sandman"?! Sign me up, baby!

Others have pointed out that because of the sour relationship between Konami and Hideo Kojima, HD rereleases of and of the Metal Gear games seem pretty unlikely.

The inclusion of Mario and Rabbids is also eyebrow-raising. Nintendo does not generally port their games onto any non-Nintendo platforms so that the fact that Nintendo apparently started working on a PC port of the game is really surprising. I doubt, however, that we'll ever see it released.

And there are a ton of other games- literally thousands on the list that I have neither the time, patience, or energy to bother examining. I’m sure there are dozens of other gems and nuggets of information that will come as the people who do have the time and the patience eagerly scour for them.

Once again, though, I should remind you of my aforementioned disclaimer. The games above are merely titles found in a list of possible games. A lot of these may be abandoned or prototypes that a company was merely playing around with. Others may get canceled between now and their announcement date. Others could be titles Nvidia themselves added to test if their service can handle them, despite that there is no agreement with the original company that would allow them to do so.

In spite of that, there’s still a ton of information that can be taken as confirmation of various projects, especially ones that have been rumored for a while now. The best example is the Resident Evil 4 Remake. Capcom has been remaking the other Resident Evil Games for, like, five years now.

The idea that the next game in the series is on the table isn't exactly a huge surprise. Other games have since been directly confirmed by the companies themselves, like how Microsoft confirmed that Project Holland was actually a new “Fable” game. Others, however, should be taken with a grain of salt. I’m not exactly gambling on a lot of the PlayStation exclusives coming to PC anytime soon.

Still, there's a lot to be excited for. 2022 looks like it's going to be an exciting year for video games, and perhaps that has something to do with being in the tail end of Covid. Who knows? The future looks bright!