The app connects to the closest data center, which hosts the engine to render the games and stream them to you. There are also about 90 standard free-to-play games. You boot up the appropriate app for Android, Windows or Mac OS, find a supported game in your Steam library (or one of a few you've gotten directly from Ubisoft or Epic Game Store) and commence play. That's a more expensive solution, though it offers one perk the others don't: It works on iPhones and iPads as well as all the other devices. It's also similar to virtual machine services like Shadow they provide you with an entire, persistent Windows system in the cloud that you can access via phone as well as other devices, which means you can essentially play any existing Windows game.
) or gotten for free (mostly through the Epic Games Store) rather than requiring you buy a special version of the game (like Stadia) or stream games from a particular subscription library (like xBox Gamepass Ultimate or Sony PlayStation Now). GFN differs from the competition in that it works with games you've already paid for (primarily on
