In total, Netflix has 16 games in development at its internal studios and 70 games in development with partners. Though Night School Studio’s Oxenfree II: Lost Signals is expected to release later this year, the majority of the games that Netflix’s own teams are developing are still in the very early phases. For the remainder of 2023, Netflix promises to offer brand-new games every month, including “indie darlings, award-winning hits, RPGs, narrative adventures, and puzzle games.”
Loombe stated that since Netflix began to offer games in 2021, it has discovered that players are primarily drawn to three types of experiences: games based on its own shows and movies, like Stranger Things, as well as games with familiar names from other media, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and Immortality.
I hope Netflix doesn’t concentrate just on those areas given its ambitions to become a top-tier game publisher. Whatever the case, it’s off to a great start. For instance, my favourite game of 2022 was Poinpy, a vertical platformer that doesn’t fit cleanly into any of those three genres.
