Netflix has been investing closely into gaming over the previous few years in its continued effort to change into the Netflix of… nicely, every part. In addition to buying and constructing new recreation studios, nabbing massive identify expertise, and shifting into cloud gaming, the streamer is making a concerted effort to make the Netflix app a aggressive vacation spot for subscription-based cellular gaming. Though as of now, lower than 1% of all Netflix customers take benefit of the service.
That hasn’t slowed down Netflix’s willpower in the area. During this yr’s Geeked Week digital occasion, the corporate introduced a slew of new titles coming to the Netflix cellular app in 2024.
Along with major bulletins and trailer premieres for a number of of its largest upcoming sequence and films like Avatar: The Last Airbender, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Stranger Things, and The Umbrella Academy, Netflix has additionally shined a highlight on a number of of its largest games coming to the Netflix cellular app, in addition to latest releases like Oxenfree II: Lost Signals and Slayaway Camp 2: Netflix and Kill.
Here are the most important recreation bulletins and trailers from Netflix Geeked Week 2023.
Hades
If you’ve by no means performed Supergiant’s peerless motion roguelite earlier than — or at all times needed to play it on cellular — 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, attractive, 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 robotically be the very best recreation in Netflix’s catalog when it arrives there.
Braid: Anniversary Edition
The long-awaited anniversary version of Jonathan Blow’s time-bending puzzle platformer, which was first introduced manner again in 2020, is lastly being launched in April of subsequent yr. If that weren’t sufficient, it’s additionally coming to the Netflix cellular app!
The Anniversary Edition of the sport comes with a suite of new options, together with the power to modify between the previous and new graphics at will and 15 hours of developer commentary from Blow himself and Frank Cifaldi of the Video Game History Foundation.
Chicken Run: Eggstraction
Coming scorching on the tail (feather) of the long-awaited sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Aardman Animations has introduced Chicken 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 new recruits when the sport is launched in 2024.
Death’s Door
Death’s Door, the isometric action-adventure recreation from Acid Nerve and quantity seven on our record of the very best games of 2021, is coming to the Netflix cellular app. As a sword-wielding crow, you traverse the afterlife accumulating souls for the Reaping Commission Headquarters. Think a barely simpler take on Dark Souls — although not that a lot simpler.
Katana Zero
The trendy, neo-noir motion platformer Katana Zero can also be headed to Netflix cellular. You play as a katana-wielding amnesiac murderer as you hack and slash your manner by swaths of enemies, decelerate time, and dodge lethal assault as you bob and weave your manner by a dystopian neon-lit metropolis.
Money Heist
One of Netflix’s largest worldwide hits is its Spanish heist thriller, which now will get this interactive spinoff from the in-house studio Netflix Stories. Dialogue selections and hacking minigames abound when you be part of the unique Money Heist crew in the theft that began all of it — La Perla de Barcelona. Like all of the games based mostly on Netflix’s authentic exhibits and films, the Money Heist recreation will stay unique to Netflix subscribers when it releases quickly, alongside spinoff sequence Berlin.
Shadow and Bone: Enter the Fold
Fans of Shadow and Bone are nonetheless ready on phrase of a potential third season of the fantasy thriller drama. But in the meantime, Netflix introduced a new narrative roleplaying recreation set between the occasions of season 1 and a pair of, which is on the market to play now on the Netflix cellular app. Explore the world of Grishaverse as Alina, Jesper, Sturmhond, and General Kirigan as you traverse the war-torn land of Ravka, meet acquainted faces, and make laborious selections 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 answerable for the animated fantasy sequence that’s one of the 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 cellular at launch, but it surely’s getting a PC model too.
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