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5) Shadow

Graphic: Shadow
Graphic: Shadow

Shadow is not so much a cloud gaming service as it is a cloud-based computer you can rent as you need. You can use it as if it were a Windows machine right in front of you. Once you pay, Shadow will assign you a computer running an Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card and 12GB of RAM with up to 1TB of storage. You can then tweak the settings as you need, as if it were a virtual machine. Shadow is available in the U.S., U.K., France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland.

How’s the library?

Shadow lets you play any PC game you can install to your cloud-based computer, which lives on a server far, far away.

Cons

It’s expensive and not particularly user-friendly for casual gaming, and it’s currently more focused on appealing to workers that need to rent a computer rather than gamers wanting to game.

Pricing

Starts at $30/month