Netflix has been investing closely into gaming over the previous few years in its continued effort to change into the Netflix of… effectively, the whole lot. Along with buying and constructing new sport studios, nabbing massive identify 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 make the most of the service.
That hasn’t slowed down Netflix’s dedication 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 largest upcoming sequence 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 largest video games coming to the Netflix cell app, in addition to latest releases like Oxenfree II: Misplaced Indicators and Slayaway Camp 2: Netflix and Kill.
Listed here are the most important sport bulletins and trailers from Netflix Geeked Week 2023.
Hades
When you’ve by no means performed Supergiant’s peerless motion roguelite earlier than — or at all times needed to play it on cell — Netflix has you lined. An iOS model of Polygon’s 2020 sport of the yr is coming quickly, completely to Netflix subscribers. Set in a gaudy, humorous, attractive, and mysterious model of the Underworld of Greek fantasy, 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, abilities, and boons granted by your fellow gods, Hades by no means performs the identical twice, and it’ll routinely be the very best sport 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 approach 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Version of the sport comes with a set of recent options, together with the flexibility to modify between the outdated and new graphics at will and 15 hours of developer commentary from Blow himself and Frank Cifaldi of the Video Recreation Historical past Basis.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 sport set shortly after the occasions of the movie. You’ll hatch plans, assemble a crack workforce of rooster commandos, improvise devices, and sneak into farms as you liberate entire flocks of recent recruits when the sport is launched in 2024.
Dying’s Door
Dying’s Door, the isometric action-adventure sport from Acid Nerve and quantity seven on our checklist of the very best video games of 2021, is coming to the Netflix cell app. As a sword-wielding crow, you traverse the afterlife amassing 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 approach by swaths of enemies, decelerate time, and dodge lethal assault as you bob and weave your approach by a dystopian neon-lit metropolis.
Cash Heist
One in all Netflix’s largest 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 if you be 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 unique exhibits and films, the Cash Heist sport will stay unique to Netflix subscribers when it releases quickly, alongside spinoff sequence Berlin.
Shadow and Bone: Enter the Fold
Followers of Shadow and Bone are nonetheless ready on phrase of a potential third season of the fantasy thriller drama. However within the meantime, Netflix introduced a brand new narrative roleplaying sport set between the occasions of season 1 and a couple of, which is accessible to play now on the Netflix cell app. Discover the world of Grishaverse as Alina, Jesper, Sturmhond, and Basic Kirigan as you traverse the war-torn land of Ravka, meet acquainted faces, and make onerous 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 sport with hack-and-slash fight and loot galore. It’s being made at Wonderstorm, the studio liable for the animated fantasy sequence 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 will probably be unique to Netflix on cell at launch, however it’s getting a PC model too.
