Microsoft has announced that you can now stream your own games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, a feature available with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Well, you can stream some of them, and the company limits it to just 50 games to start with.
It’s a fairly constrained opening salvo, though it makes sense for Microsoft to gradually expand the selection – mimicking the original launch of cloud gaming – rather than trying to cover thousands of games for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S at once. Of course, since you must have a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, this is in addition to all the streaming games included (regardless of whether you own them directly or not).
Custom game streaming is included all 28 countries where Xbox Cloud Gaming is available and supported via TVs and browsers on smartphones, tablets and PCs – please note that the Xbox Game Pass app recently lost streaming functionality on Android and has never been available on iOS. Microsoft is working to build this feature into the Xbox app for Windows and Xbox consoles in 2025.
Go to the Xbox website for guidance on compatible devices and how to get started.
Notable games included on this launch list include Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. These are games that probably won’t be on Game Pass anytime soon, which is why they’re great , which can be included here.
The 50 games currently available are:
- Animal well
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage
- Avatar: Pandora’s Limits
- Balatro
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Exiles: Ghosts of New Eden
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
- Frank Stone Cast
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dragon Quest III HD-2D remake
- Deepen
- Dying Light 2 Stay human
- Farming Simulator 25
- Be afraid of the spotlight
- Final Fantasy XIV online
- The ultimate fantasy
- Final Fantasy II
- Ultimate Fantasy III
- Final Fantasy IV
- Final Fantasy V
- Final Fantasy VI
- Hades
- Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
- High standard of living
- Hitman World of Assassinations
- Hogwarts Legacy
- House flipping 2
- Kena: Ghost Bridge
- Lego Harry Potter collection
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure
- Subway exodus
- Mortal Kombat 1
- NBA 2K25
- PGA 2K23 Tour
- Phasmaphobia
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Console version of Rust
- 7 days until death
- Outlaws from Star Wars
- Stray
- Crew Motorfest
- Last attempts
- Brave squire
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
- TopSpin 2K25
- Undertale
- Mana’s visions
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- WWE 2K24
When the service was still known as Project xCloud in 2019, Microsoft confirmed its intention to allow users to start streaming purchased games in 2020. While Xbox Cloud Gaming itself launched in 2020, purchased streaming has been pushed back to 2022. …but it never materialized. Cloud gaming has always been constrained to games from the Xbox Game Pass library, and even then it wasn’t universal. It’s great to finally add this feature, even if it’s quite constrained.
Source: Xbox cable
