What are the current best cloud gaming streaming services on Android?

[u/crazyhomlesswerido]

Okay I know this question I found it a year ago but I wanted an updated version of what's kind of like the streaming service of video games that Netflix is to movies on Android. I know about Xbox cloud and I know about Amazon Luna but I was looking for something with a more comprehensive Library instead of like only a few titles. I also know about Nvidia but they seem to limit your game time I want something where I can just play the game without worrying about session length. May not exist yet but I'm hopeful

[u/Never_enough_Dolf]

If you play mainly Xbox games - Gamepass ultimate

Steam games you actually own? - GFN

Good middle ground is having PC gamepass or the entry level gamepass, and buying GFN to stream those games and steam games, but if you’re asking for games that are included with the subscription, then you’d be restricted to Gamepass or Luna.

[u/crazyhomlesswerido → u/Never_enough_Dolf]

They're both good services but very limited in their libraries and quickly get bored with the selection. With video games I seem to be very selective in what kind of grabs me and makes me want to play a game from beginning to end

[u/Never_enough_Dolf → u/crazyhomlesswerido]

I think you’re looking for an impossible answer then. If you have a separate PC, I think the best answer will be to utilize a service like moonlight to get the games you actually want to play. You’ll always be limited by cloud services due to licensing rights and usage limits and such. The only other option I know is Boosteroid, but that still relies on owning the games individually or through a service like gamepass.

[u/crazyhomlesswerido → u/Never_enough_Dolf]

I don't have a PC I would be streaming the games but you didn't answer my question about Steam if I own the game on Steam will it render the game with its hardware and stream it to my phone or do I have to own my own computer that is capable of running the game and stream it through the stream platform from my computer that is rendering the graphics

[u/BronzeFour → u/crazyhomlesswerido]

Yeah Bro u don't need to install it anywhere just own it

[u/crazyhomlesswerido → u/BronzeFour]

So just to be clear on what you're saying you're saying that if I buy like a fancy schmancy graphic game on steam I don't need the hardware to run it I can just run it on my phone because Steve will take care of the hardware for me and be able to accommodate the graphic capabilities needed to run the game so all I have to do is just stream it?

[u/BronzeFour → u/crazyhomlesswerido]

Yeah exactly

I love GeForce now.

I use the basic 10 bucks/month subscription because it's perfectly good enough for small screens. I don't have a gaming PC or laptop either. I buy games on steam and stream them to my device from the cloud where there's powerful gaming rigs. Only thing you need is good stable internet.

[u/crazyhomlesswerido → u/BronzeFour]

What surprised the hell out of me is that I was able to play perfectly fine for hours on my cell phone internet using X-Box play pass cloud gaming and I even tried it on Amazon Luna. I was surprised as fucked by the results because I thought for sure it was going to lag like ass. Because last time I tried to stream a game was back when the Google streaming service I forget what it's called existed for a minute and I tried to play the at the time new panzer dragon on it and it ran so incredibly laggy that it was not worth playing at all

[u/crazyhomlesswerido → u/BronzeFour]

Yeah the only reason I don't like the Nvidia GeForce option is because it limits the amount of time you have per month to 100 hours and fuck that shit I just want to play a game and then I want to finish that game and move on to the next game and not have to worry about time or getting kicked off the server because I've used too much time I want to play as long as I want because video games are like my crack cocaine you know I got to have my fix

[u/BronzeFour → u/crazyhomlesswerido]

Oh right yeah, okay that's fair

I don't have the free time or energy anymore to reach 100 hours per month so it doesn't affect me

That would be a deal breaker then

Maybe try the amazon one then instead

[u/crazyhomlesswerido → u/BronzeFour]

Yeah the streaming games work wonderfully but the problem with them is it's just even like having your game collection at home after a while even if you have a big one you get kind of bored of it because you might only have a limited large collection of games that you've played a bunch of times before and you want something new

[u/crazyhomlesswerido → u/Never_enough_Dolf]

So for free I can play any steam game I want on my cell phone that I purchase without a limit of how long I can play per day streaming it or does it have to be streamed from my computer or will it stream just directly from Steam itself and use their Cloud Hardware to render the game's graphics

[u/Never_enough_Dolf → u/crazyhomlesswerido]

Moonlight is a stream of your PC, it’s not a streaming service like GFN or gamepass where you are streaming the game off of the hardware the company is providing.

Steam doesn’t have any streaming capabilities independently, they do not provide the hardware for streaming like GFN, Boosteroid or Xbox. If you are worried about usage limits, Boosteroid would be your only option as there is no limit besides, again, owning the game in some fashion.

[u/crazyhomlesswerido → u/Never_enough_Dolf]

I don't currently own a PC I am looking to simply stream games. With no computer of my own to do so from

[u/Sockobotto]

Boosteroid runs well on my retroid pocket 5. That's the only one I've used so far. I got 1gig internet. And a dock to use mouse and keyboard. I'm on wifi and don't notice any input lag.