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Netflix plans to add roughly 40 more titles to its mobile game library this year

The “Monument Valley” series will launch on the platform in 2024, and its producers have hinted at a potential third installment.

Netflix doesn’t have any immediate plans to scale back its gaming ambitions since it wants to make sure that each of its more than 230 million customers can enjoy at least one game. After the most recent additions of Valiant Hearts: Going Home and the captivatingly dystopian Highwater, the company’s mobile gaming catalogue currently contains 55 games. In 2023, there will be a lot more because Netflix has plans to add about 40 more games throughout the course of the year.

Netflix doesn’t have any immediate plans to scale back its gaming ambitions since it wants to make sure that each of its more than 230 million customers can enjoy at least one game. After the most recent additions of Valiant Hearts: Going Home and the captivatingly dystopian Highwater, the company’s mobile gaming catalogue currently contains 55 games. In 2023, there will be a lot more because Netflix has plans to add about 40 more games throughout the course of the year.

A number of these games have been made public by the publisher, including the reverse city-building game Terra Nil (coming on March 28) and the puzzle-solving game Paper Trail. Moreover, Netflix and Ubisoft have agreed to an agreement for three exclusive titles. Mighty Quest: Rogue Palace, the second of those, will be released on April 18th. It follows Valiant Hearts: Coming Home. The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot’s shared universe is used for this roguelikes. It is rumored to include an enhanced formula, a deeper narrative, and improved gameplay.

A sequel to Too Hot to Handle: Love is a Game, which is based on the popular reality show Too Hot to Handle and is one of Netflix’s most popular games to date, is also coming out later this year. According to Netflix, weekly content updates have kept gamers engaged, and the company is collaborating with developer Nanobit on the sequel.

In the future, Netflix Games will offer the Monument Valley series. In 2024, Monument Valley and Monument Valley 2 will be free to stream for Netflix subscribers.

There are modern iterations of the venerable mobile puzzle games on Apple Arcade. The games should continue to be available on other services after the next year, a Netflix official told Engadget. Another Monument Valley game is reportedly in the works as part of the developer Ustwo’s Netflix agreement; Ustwo created Desta: The Memory Between last year, which is also available on Netflix.

A game based on an unidentified future Netflix original is also in the works. The unique game is being developed by Super Evil Megacorp, the team behind Vainglory, and will reportedly capitalise on their experience with team-based warfare. Later this year, further information regarding this initiative should become available. According to Leanne Loombe, vice president of external games at Netflix, this game is a “huge bet” and a “transmedia play” for the corporation.

In total, Netflix has 16 games in development at its internal studios and 70 games in development with partners. Whilst 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.”

Since Netflix began providing games in 2021, Loombe claimed that the company has discovered that players are primarily drawn to three types of experiences: ones that are familiar from other media, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and Immortality; ones that encourage daily play, like Solitaire and Knittens; and ones based on narratives.

 

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