Netflix is removing a number of mobile games from its subscription service, including the Monument Valley titles and Hades.
The following games will be leaving the service in July:
- Battleship
- Braid, Anniversary Edition
- Carmen Sandiego
- CoComelon: Play with JJ
- Death’s Door
- Diner Out: Merge Cafe
- Dumb Ways to Die
- Ghost Detective
- Hades
- Katana ZERO
- Lego Legacy: Heroes Unboxed
- Ludo King
- Monument Valley
- Monument Valley 2
- Monument Valley 3
- Rainbow Six: SMOL
- Raji: An Ancient Epic
- SpongeBob: Bubble Pop F.U.N.
- TED Tumblewords
- The Case of the Golden Idol
- The Rise of the Golden Idol
- Vineyard Valley
Hades – the widely (and rightly) praised indie roguelike from Supergiant games – will be leaving Netflix on 1st July.
“Greek gods bring family charm to this glittering headlong pelt through the underworld,” reads Eurogamer’s Hades review.
The remaining games will then leave the service on 14th July. That includes Monument Valley 3, which released exclusively on Netflix last year. The game, which sees players “quest through a series of mind-bending illusions and atmospheric puzzles”, will be released on Steam on 22nd July. On Valve’s platform, ustwo games is listed as both developer and publisher.
“At each stage it’s astonishingly beautiful, offering poised, perfectly balanced images and landscapes that you yearn to explore if the game would let you. But the rigours of how it unfolds are too tight. It doesn’t want to be ugly, or let you find your own solution, even if it’s a bodged solution,” reads Eurogamer’s Monument Valley 3 review.
As to why the games are being removed, in a statement shared with What’s on Netflix, the streaming service said: “Just like with series and film, games will be removed from Netflix as licenses expire. Players will notice a ‘Leaving Soon’ badge and be notified by the app itself well in advance of removal.”
Earlier this year, Netflix additionally announced it was removing its Black Mirror interactive special Bandersnatch from the service. In November of last year, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed to Eurogamer that “almost all” of its interactive titles would be leaving the service that December.