


Check out our list of every game that uses ray tracing if you want to put your ray tracing-capable graphics card to the test. Ray tracing has slowly crept into plenty of games since then, including Minecraft. Until recently, real-time ray tracing in games wasn't possible due to the sheer graphical power required to render these realistic light beams, but since 2018 we've had proper ray tracing-capable graphics cards available that can finally do it justice. In the past, games often used techniques such as 'baked-in lighting' to simulate light in their environments, but this can often look artifical compared to how a place would be lit in real life. Ray tracing is a type of graphics technology that allows for the accurate simulation of light, shadows and reflections.
