Google says it has 400 games in the works for Stadia

Google has around 400 games en route for its game streaming service Stadia, according to Jack Buser, the service’s director of games. Buser gave the figure in an interview with MobileSyrup, where he said the company had “a track record of approximately 400 games in development from 200 developers” for the service.

Buser declined to give specific information on the individual games, but said most will arrive in 2021 and beyond. This list of Stadia games maintained by Android Police, however, includes around 50 unreleased games that have been announced for the service, alongside around 100 games already available.

The director used the number of games on Stadia’s roadmap as proof of Google’s long-term commitment to the platform. Buser said Google’s planning for Stadia extends to 2023 at this point. “We are looking many years into the future,” says the director. “Gaming is one of Google’s biggest businesses… that’s why you see us investing so much time and energy to help these hundreds of developers make all of these games. We have a very exciting year ahead of us. And, in fact, we have many very exciting years ahead of us.

These games in development include exclusive titles produced by Google’s own in-house game studios as well as partners like Harmonix. The company has made big hires as part of its first-party development efforts, including ex-Ubisoft and EA producer Jade Raymond and former Sony Santa Monica studio manager Shannon Studstill.

“You’re going to see the amount of exclusive content on our scalable platform pretty quickly,” Buser says. He adds that some “cloud native” titles will be able to do things that are not possible on current systems because they “are free from the limitations of a network device in your living room, such as a PC or game console.”