GFN Thursday – GeForce NOW News & Updates For August 6th 2026

GFN Thursday

We kick off this week’s GFN Thursday with the info that GeForce NOW will once again be making a return to QuakeCon, which kicks off this weekend!

Gamers in attendance will be able to swing past the NVIDIA booth and get hands-on with the best in class when it comes to cloud gaming. Demos will showcase the RTX-5080 power of the GeForce NOW Ultimate Tier!

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This Week’s New Games

This week we will see 8 new games arrive in the GeForce NOW library.

Among those games, there are 3 brand new releases, including Big Walk from developer House House.

You can see the full list of this week’s new games below:

• Big Walk (New release on Steam Aug. 4)
• Beacon Pines (Free on Epic Games Store Aug. 6)
• Sovereign Tower (New release on Steam Aug. 6)
• Expeditions: Samurai (New release on Steam Aug. 7)
• The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (Xbox, available on the Microsoft Store)
• The Incident at Galley House (Steam)
• Machine Party (Steam)
• World of Warships: Legends (Steam)

As it is the first GFN Thursday update for August 2026, we also get a sneak peek at some of the other titles that will be coming to GeForce NOW this month.

August is looking good! Games such as Mortal Shell II, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy and Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 are just a small offering of the great games arriving this month.

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You can see the full list below, and as always, we keep you updated on these games as they arrive each week:

• Pax Autocratica (New release on Steam Aug. 10)
• Car Wash Simulator (New release on Steam Aug. 10)
• Clawed (New release on Steam Aug. 13)
• Hell Let Loose: Vietnam (New release on Steam Aug. 13)
• Sandustry (New release on Steam and Xbox, available on Game Pass, Aug. 13)
• The Sinking City 2 (New release on Steam Aug. 18)
• Mortal Shell II (New release on Steam Aug. 20)
• Gallipoli (New release on Steam, Aug. 20)
• Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 (New release on Steam Aug. 25)
• Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy (New release on Steam and Xbox, available on Game Pass, Aug. 27)
• Breathedge 2 (New release on Steam Aug. 30)
• World of Warships: Legends (Steam)
• High on Life (Steam)
• High on Life 2 (Steam and Xbox, available on Game Pass)
• Paradise Killer (Steam)
• Misery (Steam)
• Pratfall (Steam)
• Starvester (Steam)