With the announcement of the official closure of Stadia, Google also confirmed that it will refund all purchases made on this service, both games and hardware. So, if you bought a game on Google Stadia, you should receive the money you paid for it soon. However, in case you want to continue playing it, you may not have to buy it again.
The Ubisoft company, developer of many games available on Google Stadia, such as Assassin’s Creed, Just Dance, Far Cry and Watch Dogs, has stepped forward to support the transfer of games purchased on Stadia, so they can continue to be played on PC at no extra cost. Muse Games, developers of the Embr game, have taken the same step.
All the games purchased on Stadia that you can receive for free for PC
as announced Ubisoft Support on its official Twitter account, the company is already working to bring the games you have on Stadia to PC through Ubisoft Connect. In case you don’t know, Ubisoft Connect is the official Ubisoft launcher for PC. In other words, it is the program where Ubisoft games are purchased, installed and run on computers.
Separately, the game’s developer Embr has said on Reddit that any Stadia player who has purchased it on the platform or claimed it through an active Stadia Pro subscription you will be able to receive a free key for Steam of the game. So, in short, these are the Google Stadia games that you can claim for free on PC:
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Odyssey and others from the saga
- Just Dance 2023, 2022, 2021 or 2020
- Far Cry 6 and others in the saga
- Immortals Fenyx Rising
- The Crew 2
- Watch Dogs Legion
- Riders Republic
- The Division 2
- monopoly madness
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Rainbow Six: Extraction
- Rabbids: Party of Legends
- Embr
- And other Ubisoft games
Although Ubisoft has not mentioned any date on when the option to claim purchased games on Stadia will be available for PC, at least they have already proposed a solution for all those who want to continue playing their games. It is also not known if game progress will carry over as well.by the way.
As for the Embr game (which is not from Ubisoft), there is already a way to get it for free on PC.
How to download Embr for free on PC if you bought it from Google Stadia
If you purchased or subscribed to the Embr game on Google Stadia, you can now claim a Steam key for the Embr game as follows:
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Send an email to [email protected] attaching two screenshots:
- One where the game Embr is seen in your Stadia library.
- Another where you see the studio’s upcoming survival game, Wildmender, added to your Steam wish list.
- You can find more information about it in the game’s Discord.
If both catches are ok, the company will reply to the email with the Steam key for the game so you can play it on your PC. Don’t know how to redeem a game on Steam? In these tutorials we show you how to redeem Steam codes from the old Android app and from the new Android app.
And what if I don’t want Google Stadia games on PC?
If you are not interested in having your Stadia games on PC, either because you do not have a powerful computer to run them or because what you want is to play them in streaming on any screen, do not worry, well the refund by Google stands. It is not yet known how Google will return the money you paid for the games, but they will inform you soon.
The big G hopes to have the most returns processed in the middle of January 2023.
