Netflix adds four more mobile games to its list, the company said Tuesday, including three available immediately, and a fourth – its previously announced game Exploding Kittens – arrives next week. The move is part of Netflix’s efforts to invest in video games as part of its standard subscriptions.
Dragon Up’s visual style is based on Scandinavian design and illustration in early books of short stories and fairy tales, according to Netflix.
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The latest games to join Netflix are:
- Dragon Up, a colorful single player game that allows players to hatch and collect rare dragons to save their kingdom.
- Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt, a mobile version of the strategy game, allows players to build a medieval city, make financial decisions and keep the population happy.
- Moonlighter, a role-playing game that puts players in the role of a store manager during the day and a dungeon explorer who kills monsters, unlocks mysteries at night.
Exploding Kittens – The game will launch on Netflix on May 31. Like the existing Exploding Kittens app, available on Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store, the Netflix version adapts the popular card game, which challenges players to withdraw from the Exploding Kitten card.
This version of Netflix will have two exclusive cards: a Radar card that reveals the nearest Exploding Kitten in the deck and a Flip Flop card that reverses the order of the cards throughout the deck. An expansion pack of cards will be themed around Netflix’s 2023 TV series Exploding Cat.
Netflix games can be played and downloaded via links in the Netflix mobile app, but they must be installed separately from the Netflix app on your device. You can download the games directly from Apple and Google’s app stores at 10 a.m. PT on the day of their release, or you can wait until 2:00 p.m. ET that day to find links to them in Netflix’s own app. Users of Android and iPhone mobile devices should see a special line for games if you scroll down your home tab, and Android also has a special section for games. Tablet users should also see a special line for games or find games in the category drop-down menu.
Last year, Netflix confirmed that it is expanding in gaming, starting with games without ads for mobile devices such as phones and tablets available in its existing service at no extra cost to subscribers. With the latest games launching in May, Netflix has 22 daily mobile games available on the service, some of which have previously been released elsewhere.
The expansion marks his most meaningful move to a new kind of entertainment since it launched streaming in 2007 and launched its first original show in 2012. Netflix has set wide ambitions for gaming, indicating that it ultimately plans to pursue console games for Xbox and PlayStation too.
Netflix is not alone in this gaming expansion. Amazon, which runs Prime Video, is investing in Luna, its cloud gaming service, and also has its own gaming studio. Google, the parent of YouTube, has invested in its own streaming service, Stadia. And Apple, which makes its own movies and TV shows for Apple TV Plus, has also expanded into Apple Arcade.
But Netflix would be unique in making the games part of its only subscription. Others offer their gaming services as standalone products, usually also bundled with a bunch of other memberships.
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