at the beginning of the day, Google confirms it will shut down Stadia, its short-lived cloud gaming service. The company plans to refund all software and hardware purchases related to Stadia, but the future of some of the service’s remaining exclusivity is less clear. If not ported to other platforms before they get on board, they may disappear entirely and never be played again.
When Google Stadia launched in late 2019, the search engine company had big plans, promising exclusive games that would take advantage of features only possible with cloud streaming and offsite computing. , and even closed its own game studio in the process.However, some dedicated games remain stuck stadiumAnd with today’s sudden news that Stadia will be permanently shutting down on January 18, 2023, we don’t know what will happen to these games.to both blog post announced the closure of Situation FAQGoogle couldn’t clarify what the future holds for the few remaining Stadia exclusives.
Kotaku has contacted Google about these games and will update the post with any new details or plans.
By our calculations, there are five games that can only be played on Google Stadia. Here is the list:
hello engineer
Released in October 2021, this is the latest exclusive on the list. hello engineer Described by its developers as a “multiplayer machine-building game”, it’s set in the same universe as the popular horror game. Hello neighbor.
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pixeljunk raiders
This is a poorly reviewed third-person roguelike action game. Q-gamethe same developer who made children of tomorrow and other pixel junk game.) there is a nice feature where a player can share a screenshot and other players can jump into that game state using just that image. But the rest of the game sounds kind of boring.
Outcast
Developed by Splash Damage Outcast Top-down online multiplayer combat game Featuring characters who appear to have fallen from Fall Guys interrupt. Some players had good things to say, Outcasteven after becoming free-to-play, did not find the audience it needed and seems to be mostly a ghost town these days.
pacman mega tunnel battle
Released in 2020, mega tunnel battle combine the classics Pac-Man Arcade game with battle royale. Up to 64 players can play together and compete to be the last Pac-Man using a mix of new and returning power-ups on retro-inspired maps.
Gilt
Gilt is a girl-led third-person horror game and is considered by many Stadia fans to be the best exclusive game ever released on the service. It’s developed by Tequila Works, is about six hours long, and is packed with decent jump scares, puzzles, and combat.Nothing too special, but a solid game that will hopefully be ported to Steam or Switch for more people to enjoy Gilt for years.
Some of these games aren’t incredible, and I doubt many people wouldn’t mind not being able to play them again, but it’s still a shame to lose them. Preserving video games is important if we want Preserve the history of this art form And show how it has evolved and changed over decades of innovation and new technology. Even if some of them aren’t that great, disabling these games sucks.
Hopefully the developers and publishers involved can port them to other platforms. Even pirates couldn’t rip and share their games online.A sad end to a game people have been working on for years.
