3. Amazon Luna

Availability

Luna is available across a wide range of devices, including PCs, Macs, and Amazon-specific devices like a Fire TV or Fire Tablet. There’s a dedicated app for Chromebooks, but you’ll have to deal with the web application on Android phones, iPhones, or any of the separate brands’ respective tablets. While that is a fair range of devices, its restriction to web apps on all the major popular phones and tablets makes it a far harder sell than GeForce Now or Game Pass.

Game Library

This is where things get weird with Luna, which makes it harder to recommend compared to its competitors generally. Multiple subscriptions exist, including Luna+, Ubisoft+, Jackbox Games, and Prime Gaming. A Luna+ account might be worth the price if you want to play Devil May Cry 5 or a few other semi-recent titles like the Resident Evil 2 remake, but it’s very uneven. Jackbox will grant you access to all the fun couch potato party games that may be worth it if you know you have a lot of friends coming over. Ubisoft+ has pretty much every single recent title from the publisher, from lauded titles like Prince of Persia The Lost Crown to maligned games like Skull and Bones.

If you only want to play Fortnite, get ready to spend extra money on an Amazon Prime account. That also grants you access to to some Ubisoft games, so long as you already own them and they’re all linked to your Ubisoft account, which sounds like a big “if.”

Pricing

Each model has their own pricing scheme. Luna+ will set you back $10 a month, though JackBox will only put you back the cost of a $5 chicken sandwich. Far out of its league, Ubisoft+ demands $18 a month, which is equivalent to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, though with far fewer titles.

Luna+ also offers discounts on select titles depending on the sale. Is that enough to justify the cost? It depends on the user and whether they’re really trying to get Assassin’s Creed Valhalla for pennies.

Other Considerations

Despite its pedigree and attachment to Amazon, Luna still feels like a beta, especially considering the number of games on offer. If you want to delve into it, you might also consider buying the Luna controller that connects directly to Amazon’s servers, offering lower latency gaming. That’s a unique feature that would be nice to see Xbox steal some time in the future, should cloud gaming truly take off.

But Luna’s foundations are pretty solid. The connection is usually pretty strong, and the controller is an intelligently designed device that might be a bit too specific to use as your go-to 3rd party controller.