
Half 2D Zelda-style adventure, with plenty of rogue-like elements, and half management sim, Moonlighter is a very charming game with hours upon hours of content to keep you coming back.

This is a beautiful pixel art game in which you play as Will, a shopkeeper in a town that needs to explore the dangerous dungeons to acquire the goods that you will then sell during the daytime hours. This indie hit came out much earlier on PC and consoles but has made its way onto your phone via Netflix Games. We start with the one game that some are likely to recognize: Moonlighter.

That feature is similar to TikTok and YouTube shorts and gives users a feed of short clips from Netflix’s TV shows and movies.Īll in all, Netflix adding games is a solid plan to attract people who probably don’t have their own subscription to the service yet or a good enough reason to sign up for it. In addition to adding games to its streaming service, it also added a “ Fast Laughs” tab in its app earlier this year. Netflix is obviously trying to garner the attention of younger users here and become one of those apps everyone hangs out on (a la social media, chat apps, or TikTok). So, Netflix jumping aboard the bandwagon is no coincidence, and the decently wide variety of games it’s offering here out of the gate is pretty telling, too. The five biggest tech companies in the world- Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta ( Facebook), and Microsoft-have all entered the realm of gaming. But, if you look around, you’ll see that it really isn’t.

Venturing into gaming might seem like a weird move for Netflix. And again, Knittens is a simple and relaxing tile-matching game that players of any age can enjoy-5/10. As you progress, you’ll be given goals to reach each level, like collecting a certain number of blue yarn balls or making two big combos. Work your way through increasingly-difficult levels by swapping skeins of yarn with your little cat paw.
