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All the news about Netflix’s gaming efforts

Netflix is making a big push into video games. The company first dabbled in games with interactive titles like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch&nbsp;and a&nbsp;Carmen Sandiego game. But starting in 2021, it made gaming a much bigger priority — Netflix hired a former EA exec and let people play a selection of mobile games for free as part of their subscriptions.
Since then, Netflix’s gaming arm has launched player gamertags and started hiring to develop a “AAA PC game,” while bringing on big names like former Halo lead Joseph Staten. Ubisoft has even announced several games in development for Netflix, including an Assassin’s Creed title to go with a new live-action series the two companies are working on. Netflix also rolled out more big-name titles like Monument Valley and a Tomb Raider roguelike. Most Netflix subscribers haven’t tried its games yet, but that might change soon.
In August 2023, it launched the first tests for its cloud-streamed games that let you play its titles on a TV or on the web, which could help Netflix more easily compete with other non-mobile gaming platforms.
We’ll be watching Netflix’s gaming efforts closely, and you can read our coverage right here.

Now you can play Netflix games while you watch Netflix.

Netflix’s TV games get a big boost with Jackbox collection

Netflix is launching a new app for kids games

Netflix’s “cloud-first games strategy” is one of its focuses for 2026.

Boss refight.

Netflix’s next big TV game is FIFA soccer

Netflix’s new era of TV games starts now

Netflix is turning its biggest shows into daily puzzle games

Netflix shuts down its Squid Game mobile studio

Netflix is ‘judiciously’ expanding into interactive experiences

Netflix’s first TV party games include Lego, Boggle, and Tetris

Black Mirror has a clever new game tied to season 7

Netflix is getting a Peppa Pig mobile game

Netflix Stories are over.

Netflix has a new plan for games

Netflix Games is getting its first MMO

Netflix’s original gaming chief is gone.

The Electric State is getting a prequel.

Netflix’s cloud plans include co-op and party games

Squid Game: Unleashed is a fun game and a terrible adaptation

Monument Valley 3 comes to Netflix with an iconoclastic edge

Netflix’s Squid Game mobile game is coming out soon.

Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles

Netflix is getting a daily word game from TED.

Netflix closes AAA game studio before it ever released a game

I think this game is about sports.

Netflix has a new gaming boss after hiring former Epic exec

Netflix’s latest game is a mobile take on Minesweeper

Netflix’s June line-up of games: very cozy with a hint of thirst.

Netflix’s gaming boss is moving to another role at Netflix in gaming.

The future of Netflix games could look like reality TV

“On a multi-national TV and movie streaming service there lived a hobbit.”

The sequel to Animal Crossing-like Cozy Grove hits Netflix in June

Netflix has a good case of Mania.

Netflix continues run of excellent indie games with Hades in March

Ubisoft turns Rainbow Six teeny tiny for new game on Netflix

GTA is Netflix’s biggest gaming launch so far.

Performance testing Grand Theft Auto’s latest remastered re-release.

How to easily find the GTA trilogy (and other games) on Netflix

Netflix will have 86 games by year’s end, nearly 90 more in dev, 10 of those in-house.

Netflix gets its biggest games yet with GTA trilogy in December

Netflix says the cloud will let it expand beyond mobile games

Netflix tests streaming games to US TVs to take on PlayStation and Xbox

Football Manager is coming to Netflix.

Netflix is launching a new series of story games, starting with Love is Blind

Netflix now has 70 mobile games available for subscribers.

Netflix finally streams video games, too

Two years later, Netflix is still experimenting with games

Oxenfree II is a perfect spooky sequel — and one of Netflix’s best games

Get caught up on Oxenfree before the sequel drops.

One of Netflix’s biggest games is getting a sequel.

Netflix is launching its Queen’s Gambit chess game in July

It’s a goo time.

Laya’s Horizon on Netflix makes flying both exhilarating and soothing

Netflix is getting a beautiful new wingsuit game on May 2nd

The Shovel Knight puzzle game is coming to mobile.

Netflix’s next mobile game is here.

Joseph Staten, who helped get Halo Infinite over the finish line, is joining Netflix

Netflix might let you use an iPhone to control games on your TV

Netflix is adding Monument Valley next year as part of its continued gaming push

Netflix wants to make its games ‘playable on every Netflix device that you have’

The developers behind Alto’s Odyssey tease their next release

The new Tomb Raider mobile roguelike is out now.

Two new indie games are coming to Netflix.

Netflix adds TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge to its mobile games lineup

Kentucky Route Zero joins Netflix’s mobile games lineup

Netflix’s latest batch of mobile games includes Cats & Soup and a new Reigns

Netflix is hiring for a ‘brand-new AAA PC game’

Sam Barlow’s Immortality is now available on iOS and Android via Netflix.

Can Netflix reclaim the ‘Netflix for games’ crown from Xbox Game Pass?

Netflix is ‘seriously exploring’ a cloud gaming service

Netflix has 55 more games in development

Go get your Netflix gamertag

99 percent of Netflix subscribers haven’t tried its games yet

Acclaimed strategy game Into the Breach comes to mobile via Netflix

Netflix’s Exploding Kittens mobile game launches at the end of May

Netflix just added a sci-fi RPG called Relic Hunters: Rebels

Netflix and Exploding Kittens are partnering on a mobile game and an animated series

Netflix bought yet another studio as part of gaming push

Netflix is getting three more mobile games, including its first FPS

Netflix acquires another developer to build ‘world class games’

Riot’s latest League of Legends spinoff hits Netflix Games as a mobile exclusive

The newest game on Netflix is actually an old game

Netflix Games is available on your iPhone and iPad

The latest League of Legends spinoff is coming to Netflix Games

Netflix’s gaming push could be its secret sauce for continued domination

Netflix will reportedly make games available via the App Store on iOS

League of Legends’ Jinx is coming to Fortnite to promote a Netflix show

Netflix Games starts global rollout on Android, with iOS ‘on the way’

Netflix scoops up Oxenfree developer Night School

Netflix’s mobile gaming platform spreads to Spain, Italy

Netflix starts testing Android games for users in Poland

Netflix snags former EA, Oculus exec to lead its video game efforts

Evidence is piling up that Netflix wants to be the Netflix of games

Netflix settles Bandersnatch ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ lawsuit

Netflix is making a live-action Assassin’s Creed series

Netflix asks court to cancel the Choose Your Own Adventure trademark

Netflix wants to make more interactive shows after the success of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Netflix records all of your Bandersnatch choices, GDPR request reveals

Netflix sued by Choose Your Own Adventure publishers over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

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