
Interactive thriller Immortality has 302k installs, meaning it has already been downloaded more times that Poinpy, despite having only been available since early November. Poinpy, a game revealed and released in a showcase hosted by Geoff Keighley during E3 2022, has been downloaded just over 288k times, after over six months. Some of the indie games and critics’ favourites on the service have yet to gain traction. Oxenfree, launched in September, has 700k installs indie darling Into the Breach has just over 611k downloads, cinematic thriller Twelve Minutes sits on 588k and Next Games’ big IP match-battler Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales is on 497k. Notable games just outside the top ten include League of Legends tie-in Hextech Mayhem (949k downloads since launch in November 2021). The full top ten is here, and the full top 50 is below. New release TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge has been downloaded 245k times in the week since it was released, which is decent. The rest of the top ten are reworked editions of existing mobile titles, including two Stranger Things games, Gameloft’s Asphalt Xtreme, Tilting Point’s SpongeBob: Get Cooking, Damp Gnat’s Wonderputt Forever and PikPok’s Into the Dead 2. The other Netflix originals in the top ten are casual, arcade-like games Teeter (Up), Bowling Ballers and Shooting Hoops. Only 11 games have passed a million downloads, and its biggest ‘original’ hit to date is its Too Hot To Handle game, which has been installed 2.8m times since release in December.


Netflix last reported its total global subscribers as just over 223m. How is Netflix’s big, expensive push into games going? It’s early days, let’s put it that way.Īppmagic data suggests that since the streaming giant started releasing games through its app in November 2021, its entire games catalogue now has a combined 40m downloads.
