Netflix has been investing closely into gaming over the previous few years in its continued effort to develop into the Netflix of… effectively, the whole lot. Along with buying and constructing new recreation studios, nabbing huge title expertise, and transferring into cloud gaming, the streamer is making a concerted effort to make the Netflix app a aggressive vacation spot for subscription-based cell gaming. Although as of now, lower than 1% of all Netflix customers reap the benefits of the service.
That hasn’t slowed down Netflix’s willpower within the area. Throughout this yr’s Geeked Week digital occasion, the corporate introduced a slew of recent titles coming to the Netflix cell app in 2024.
Together with main bulletins and trailer premieres for a number of of its greatest upcoming collection and films like Avatar: The Final Airbender, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Stranger Issues, and The Umbrella Academy, Netflix has additionally shined a highlight on a number of of its greatest video games coming to the Netflix cell app, in addition to current releases like Oxenfree II: Misplaced Alerts and Slayaway Camp 2: Netflix and Kill.
Listed here are the largest recreation bulletins and trailers from Netflix Geeked Week 2023.
Hades
In case you’ve by no means performed Supergiant’s peerless motion roguelite earlier than — or at all times wished to play it on cell — Netflix has you lined. An iOS model of Polygon’s 2020 recreation of the yr is coming quickly, solely to Netflix subscribers. Set in a gaudy, humorous, horny, and mysterious model of the Underworld of Greek fable, Hades follows Zagreus, prince of the Underworld, as he tries and tries and tries once more (and once more, and once more) to flee his father’s area. With near-infinite permutations of weapons, expertise, and boons granted by your fellow gods, Hades by no means performs the identical twice, and it’ll routinely be the most effective recreation in Netflix’s catalog when it arrives there.
Braid: Anniversary Version
The long-awaited anniversary version of Jonathan Blow’s time-bending puzzle platformer, which was first introduced method again in 2020, is lastly being launched in April of subsequent yr. If that weren’t sufficient, it’s additionally coming to the Netflix cell app!
The Anniversary Version of the sport comes with a collection of recent options, together with the flexibility to change between the outdated and new graphics at will and 15 hours of developer commentary from Blow himself and Frank Cifaldi of the Video Recreation Historical past Basis.
Hen Run: Eggstraction
Coming scorching on the tail (feather) of the long-awaited sequel Hen Run: Daybreak of the Nugget, Aardman Animations has introduced Hen Run: Eggstraction — a top-down, actual time stealth motion recreation set shortly after the occasions of the movie. You’ll hatch plans, assemble a crack group of hen commandos, improvise devices, and sneak into farms as you liberate complete flocks of recent recruits when the sport is launched in 2024.
Dying’s Door
Dying’s Door, the isometric action-adventure recreation from Acid Nerve and quantity seven on our record of the most effective video games of 2021, is coming to the Netflix cell app. As a sword-wielding crow, you traverse the afterlife accumulating souls for the Reaping Fee Headquarters. Assume a barely simpler tackle Darkish Souls — although not that a lot simpler.
Katana Zero
The trendy, neo-noir motion platformer Katana Zero can be headed to Netflix cell. You play as a katana-wielding amnesiac murderer as you hack and slash your method via swaths of enemies, decelerate time, and dodge lethal assault as you bob and weave your method via a dystopian neon-lit metropolis.
Cash Heist
Certainly one of Netflix’s greatest worldwide hits is its Spanish heist thriller, which now will get this interactive spinoff from the in-house studio Netflix Tales. Dialogue decisions and hacking minigames abound while you be a part of the unique Cash Heist crew within the theft that began all of it — La Perla de Barcelona. Like all of the video games based mostly on Netflix’s authentic exhibits and films, the Cash Heist recreation will stay unique to Netflix subscribers when it releases quickly, alongside spinoff collection Berlin.
Shadow and Bone: Enter the Fold
Followers of Shadow and Bone are nonetheless ready on phrase of a attainable third season of the fantasy thriller drama. However within the meantime, Netflix introduced a brand new narrative roleplaying recreation set between the occasions of season 1 and a pair of, which is accessible to play now on the Netflix cell app. Discover the world of Grishaverse as Alina, Jesper, Sturmhond, and Normal Kirigan as you traverse the war-torn land of Ravka, meet acquainted faces, and make exhausting choices in Shadow and Bone: Enter the Fold.
The Dragon Prince: Xadia
Due subsequent yr, The Dragon Prince: Xadia is a Diablo-style co-op motion role-playing recreation with hack-and-slash fight and loot galore. It’s being made at Wonderstorm, the studio chargeable for the animated fantasy collection that’s one of many longest-running exhibits on Netflix (its sixth season debuts subsequent yr), so it ought to seize the present’s vibe completely. This one might be unique to Netflix on cell at launch, nevertheless it’s getting a PC model too.