Despite Zero Interest, Netflix’s Obsession with Gaming Continues
thehollywoodnews.comIndy100 newspaper reports that 0.88% or 2.2m users make daily visits to the streaming platform’s gaming section. At its peak, in January 2023, the same segment almost made it to 3m.Netflix seems to be getting desperate to attract gamers, despite assurances to the contrary.
One of the most recent additions to its library is Supergiant Games’ Hades, a 2020 release that’s widely considered one of the best dungeon crawlers of all time.
This is quite a shift away from hyper-casual titles like Bowling Ballers, Shooting Hoops, and Teeter (Up), which is about moving a platform up and down.Netflix also has the 2018 smash Dead Cells on its books, along with the made-for-Netflix Oxenfree II, an adventure game.
This latter decision is reminiscent of Epic Games’ brute-force effort to overcome Steam in the popularity stakes on PC, largely, by paying developers to ignore every other storefront.
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