We have been talked about a lot in recent days about games on Netflix. Particularly of the violent ones in which new phenomenon Squid Game‘s characters must participate. “A very good chance it’s going to be our biggest show ever.” as stated by Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix. Luckily, Netflix users don’t have to participate and risk being killed by a robot child, but they can access new video games, recently available on the site’s homepage.

After the rumors of last summer and the officiality arrived in the following days, Netflix has integrated the streaming service, starting from September 28th, with five video games, inspired by famous titles on the platform. Stranger Things: 1984, Stranger Things 3: The Game, Card Blast, Teeter Up and Shooting Hoops are displayed as icons in the mobile version and can be downloaded for free, for the moment only for Android devices.
The games were not developed by Netflix but were already present on the Play Store. However, this is a sign of the streaming service’s opening to the world of gaming, after interactive movies such as Black Mirror: Bandersnatch or Minecraft: Story Mode.
The idea is to conceive of movies not as products that end with the seasons of a series, and not even in the 2 hours of the film, but rather as a dilated plot. While the strategy has been applied to cinema for decades, Netflix has encapsulated it in a single platform, creating a continuity of language and entertainment.