Microsoft’s Cloud Gaming launches on Android tomorrow, 150+ games instantly playable

After a long period of testing for select beta players, Microsoft has officially renamed its streaming-based game subscription service from Project xCloud to Cloud Streaming. It will launch on Android devices is 22 countries from tomorrow onwards, featuring a whopping 150+ titles to instantly jump into including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Gears 5.

Cloud Gaming will be immediately accessible to anyone with an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, which makes sense considering that it pulls from the same library of titles as its wildly popular ‘Netflix for games’ service. The only difference now is that you don’t necessarily need an Xbox console or a PC to play. Instead, the power of Cloud Gaming will see major Triple-A titles playable on your smartphone with minimal lag.

Of course, Cloud Gaming isn’t expected to arrive any time soon for iOS players, as Microsoft is still yet to negotiate an agreed-upon deal with Apple following Epic Game Store’s controversial #FreeFortnite internet movement. The Android marketplace being a much more open platform now works in its favour in this instance, as Cloud Gaming will be readily available.

It’s worth noting that while all Cloud Gaming titles are technically playable on your Android device, players that are able to hook up their Xbox One controller via Bluetooth will likely have the best experience. Select games like Minecraft Dungeons will boast optimised controls for touch screens on day one, but the majority will still feature those familiar Xbox button prompts.

Here's the full list of XCloud Gaming titles launching on day one:

• A Plague Tale: Innocence
• Absolver
• Afterparty
• Age of Wonders: Planetfall
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Astroneer
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Battletoads
• Battle Chasers: Nightwar
• Black Desert
• Blair Witch
• Bleeding Edge
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
• Bridge Constructor Portal
• Carrion
• Children of Morta
• ClusterTruck
• Crackdown 3: Campaign
• Crosscode
• Darksiders Genesis
• Darksiders III
• DayZ
• de Blob
• Dead by Daylight
• Dead Cells
• Dead Island Definitive Edition
• Death Squared
• Deliver us the moon
• Demon’s Tilt
• Descenders
• Destiny 2: Shadowkeep & Forsaken expansion (September 22)
• DiRT 4
• Don’t Starve
• Double Kick Heroes
• Drake Hollow
• Dungeon of the Endless
• Enter The Gungeon
• F1 2019
• Fallout 76
• Farming Simulator 17
• Felix the Reaper
• Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour
• For the King
• Forager
• Forza Horizon 4
• Fractured Minds
• Frostpunk: Console Edition
• Gato Roboto
• Gears of War 1: Ultimate Edition
• Gears of War 4
• Gears of War 5
• Goat Simulator
• Golf with Your Friends
• Grounded
• Guacamelee! 2
• Halo 5: Guardians
• Halo Wars 1: Definitive Edition
• Halo Wars 2
• Halo: The Master Chief Collection
• Halo: Spartan Assault
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
• Hello Neighbor
• Hollow Knight (Renewal)
• Hot Shot Racing
• Human Fall Flat
• Hyperdot
• Hypnospace Outlaw
• Indivisible
• Journey to the Savage Planet
• Katana ZERO (Coming soon)
• Killer Instinct DE
• Kona
• Levelhead
• Lonely Mountains: Downhill
• Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
• Metro 2033 Redux
• Middle Earth: Shadow of War
• Minecraft: Dungeons
• MINIT
• Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
• Moonlighter
• Mortal Kombat X (Not available in Korea)
• Mount & Blade: Warband
• Moving Out
• Mudrunner
• Munchkin: Quacked Quest
• Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
• My Time At Portia
• Neon Abyss
• New Super Lucky’s Tale
• NieR:Automata
• Night Call
• Night in the Woods (Coming soon)
• No Man’s Sky
• Nowhere Prophet
• Observation
• Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps
• Overcooked! 2
• Oxenfree
• Pathologic 2
• Pikuniku
• Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition
• Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
• ReCore: Definitive Edition
• Remnant: From the Ashes
• Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
• Rise & Shine
• River City Girls (Coming soon)
• Sea of Thieves: Anniversary Edition
• Sea Salt
• Secret Neighbor
• Shadow Warrior 2
• Slay the Spire
• Sniper Elite 4
• Spiritfarer
• State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
• Stellaris
• Stranger Things 3: The Game
• Streets of Rage 4
• Streets of Rogue
• Subnautica
• Surviving Mars
• Tacoma
• Tell Me Why Episode 1 – 3
• Terraria
• The Bard’s Tale IV: Directors Cut
• The Bard’s Tale Remastered and Resnarkled
• The Bard’s Tale Trilogy
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• The Gardens Between
• The Jackbox Party Pack 4
• The Long Dark
• The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game
• The Messenger
• The Outer Worlds
• The Surge 2
• The Touryst
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• The Escapists 2
• The Talos Principle
• The Turing Test
• The Walking Dead: A New Frontier – Episode 1 through 5
• The Walking Dead: Michonne – Episode 1 – 3
• The Walking Dead: Season Two
• theHunter: Call of the Wild
• Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
• Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
• Totally Reliable Delivery Service
• Touhou Luna Nights
• Tracks – The Train Set Game
• Trailmakers
• Train Sim World 2020
• Two Point Hospital
• Undermine
• Untitled Goose Game
• Void Bastards
• Wandersong
• Warhammer Vermintide 2 (Coming soon)
• Wasteland Remastered
• Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut
• Wasteland 3
• We Happy Few
• West of Dead
• Wizard of Legend
• World War Z
• Worms W.M.D
• Xeno Crisis
• Yakuza 0
• Yakuza Kiwami
• Yakuza Kiwami 2