In earlier announcements of Google stadia launch, the tech giant announced that the cloud-streaming Stadia game service will launch with just 12 games. The situation, however, has changed as Google has nearly doubled that number, according to a tweet from Stadia boss Phil Harrison. Google is adding 10 more titles to its launch collection bringing the total up to 22. The new games added includes Football Manager 2020 and NBA 2K2020, giving Stadia a couple of the sports titles it was completely lacking before.
Google stadia seemed to be dull launching with just 12 titles especially considering that Microsoft is launching its xCloud preview with well over 50 titles.
“We were perhaps a little conservative in our forecast last week and (most importantly) our partners did an awesome job getting last few kinks ironed out and thorough testing.” Harrison explained on Twitter
Excited to announce that we are INCREASING the Day One launch line-up of titles for @GoogleStadia – we now have TWENTY TWO games launching with the platform on Tuesday. Huge thank you to our game developer and publisher partners for bringing more titles #stadia
— Phil Harrison (@MrPhilHarrison) November 18, 2019
Google also said that Samurai Showdown will join Destiny 2 as a free game on the platform, which is set to launch tomorrow.
Games initially announced:
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
- Destiny 2: The Collection (free with Stadia Pro subscription)
- Gylt
- Just Dance 2020
- Kine
- Mortal Kombat 11
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Samurai Shodown (free with Stadia Pro subscription)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Thumper
- Tomb Raider 2013
Games added on Sunday, two days before the November 19th launch:
- Attack on Titan: Final Battle 2
- Farming Simulator 2019
- Final Fantasy XV
- Football Manager 2020
- Grid 2019
- Metro Exodus
- NBA 2K20
- Rage 2
- Trials Rising
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood