Hot on the heels of Google announcing they’re sunsetting their Stadia cloud-gaming platform, the big question remains: what do owners of games on Stadia get? Ubisoft has announced they’ll let owners of their games on Stadia transfer them elsewhere.

“While Stadia will shut down on January 18, 2023, we’re happy to share that we’re working to bring the games you own on Stadia to PC through Ubisoft Connect,” the publisher said. “We’ll have more to share regarding specific details as well as the impact for Ubisoft+ subscribers at a later date.”

Many other publishers have released their games on Stadia, it remains to be seen how many have released them exclusively and/or how many are willing to let Stadia game owners transfer that license to another platform.

The caveat here, though, is the entire premise of Google Stadia was streaming your games, thus you wouldn’t need a powerful PC rig to actually run those games locally. So unless you have a decent PC to run these games locally, you’re going to need to buy more new hardware to run those games off the cloud.

Another thing to consider here will be how smaller developers or publishers make their games available on other platforms – Ubisoft is large enough to have their own storefront, and thus they can just eat the cost on licensing and transferring games between the two platforms. It’s very likely some games will not be eligible for a transfer due to staffing and/or costs.

Ubisoft was one of the first big developers to push Stadia as an alternative, launching most if not all of their games on the platform after Stadia’s first public tests. One of those tests actually used Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (pictured) as a free test, and would let you play the game in a web browser.

Google Stadia is shutting down on January 18th 2023.