the bet of Netflix for the sector of video game seems one of the pillars of the strategy to follow that the main platform of streaming of the market, or at least that is what they have been demonstrating lately. From 2021the American company, based in Los Gatos (California), is working on two parallel projects: the game library netflixgames within your application and the study namesake for the development of new products with which to expand its for now limited Catalogue.
After more than a year monopolizing titles and the acquisition of giants like Night School Studio either Boss Fight Entertainmentthe department headed by Mike Verdu is now preparing the imminent jump to televisions, where the recent launch of the application netflix game controller lets us glimpse what the future of video games holds for us in the cloud: “This application is match with your TV and allows you to play games on Netflix using your phone or mobile device“, is specified in the description of the App Store.
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For now, this test ‘beta’ is only available in United Kingdom and Canadawhere they have already been made available to some lucky ones two first video games for television from the company founded in 1997: ‘oxenfree’ and ‘Molehew’s Mining Adventure’. It should be remembered that in his day Google proposed an entertainment system similar to this, stadiumwhich failed miserably and was doomed to closing in September 2022, just three years after seeing the light.
Below you can find five games that you can now play on your ‘smartphone’ and that, most likely, you will soon be able to enjoy on a screen of larger dimensions.
Released in January 2016the success of this game earned him so that in July of this year his second delivery. With a most peculiar aesthetic, the thriller ‘Oxenfree’ tells the story of two students from the Camena institute, the stepbrothers jonas and Alexwho attend a night party with dyes “supernatural” on an abandoned military island. This game, baptized by the specialized portal GamesBeat as the next “big step” in the ‘gamer’ sector, it combines mystery and interaction in equal parts to become one of the proposals most acclaimed by users of the video game platform Steam (8.19 euros) and, now also, for the subscribers from Netflix (free).
‘Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon’
From a groundbreaking videogame we went to a classic quintessential: ‘Shovel Knight’ (2014). This version, available on Steam for 19.99 euros, keeps the characters of the sagaalthough this time he moves them to the Pocket Dungeon (‘Pocket Dungeons’). There, the puzzle will be the main challenge to get new equipment, rewards and, above all, to try to release to the prisoners. All this while preserving more than a dozen characters from the 2D universe of ‘Shovel Knight’ and the touches of humor that appear recurrently in his dialogues.
Just a few weeks ago Netflix welcomed the arrival in its catalog of the first video game designed and produced in Barcelona. And it’s not just any title. It is nothing more and nothing less than ‘Cut the Rope Daily’, the version “daily” of the mythical mobile game (2010) developed by ZeptoLab, a Russian company that in 2016 moved its headquarters to the Catalan capital. Luckily for the most fans of the monster Om nomboth this and the strings They continue to be the main protagonists, with the only difference that they only appear available a new level every day. As always, abide by the laws of the physical to cut the ends, exploit the balloons and feed with the precious candies to this adorable beast.
‘game of the year‘ by PC Gamer, ‘Best Original Property Game‘ (not from an established series) by BAFTA, ‘best strategy game‘ by The Game Awards and ‘Best Game in the Strategy Simulation Category‘ by DICE are just some of the acknowledgments which has received ‘Into the Breach’ (2018), a game developed by the independent studio Subset Games. Backed by the success of ‘Faster Than Light’ (FTL), it can be said that everything they touch Justin Ma and Matthew Davis, founders of the group, turns to gold. In July of last year, Netflix was commissioned to bring this computer game to the phones mobile phones, where it continues to sweep even more if possible (it has 4.5 out of 5 in the App Store ratings). The approach is simple: defend (by turns) the human civilization from the alien threatembodied by gigantic creatures that inhabit the depths of the Earth.
As with series and movies, not everything is great work in the Netflix repository. As is logical, the brand must also obey a commercial strategyand the ‘Stranger Things: 1984’ game could give us a clue about the same. With a video game section extended to all devices, the streaming platform is presented with an ideal setting for the diversification of the same product in different narratives, or what is the same, the development of video games based on their series or movies.
The first successful Netflix title to enter this new trend was the saga ‘stranger things‘. The universe created by the brothers Duffer has four seasons (waiting for the premiere of the fifth), having the first three of them their respective video games. Specifically, ‘Stranger Things: 1984’ (2017) corresponds to the second, which is collected in approximately four hours of game. More than one million of downloads on Android devices, this application recreates action and adventure video games that the characters of the series love so much, in addition to offering the user the possibility of moving to the mirkwood forest or to Hawkins Laboratoryamong many others.