GTA: San Andreas is among 13 mobile games set to leave Netflix soon. Other titles in the purge include Civilisation VI, Reigns: Three Kingdoms, Kentucky Route Zero and Twelve Minutes.
GTA: San Andreas is Netflix Games’ most-downloaded game by far, according to Appmagic estimates, with around 57.4m downloads to date. Another top performer for Netflix, interactive narrative app Scriptic, is also set for the chop soon, having racked up 7.7m installs through Netflix Games.
Fellow GTA games Vice City and GTA III were also available on Netflix from December 2023, but were removed a year later. Vice City and GTA III racked up 9.6m and 4.2m installs respectively in that time, again according to Appmagic.
The latest catalogue changes follow on from Netflix Games’ removal of 22 games this summer, including Hades, Braid, two Golden Idol games plus all three Monument Valley games.
Earlier this month, Netflix announced a new line-up of titles set to arrive on the service in November and December, including Red Dead Redemption, WWE 2K, Netflix Puzzled and an array of kids and party games playable on-device and on TV.
The complete list of games marked as ‘leaving soon’ in the iOS app at the time of writing is as follows:
Leaving soon:
Reigns: Three Kingdoms (November 30)
Civilisation VI (December 4)
Scriptic (December 7)
Leaving on December 8:
Dungeon Boss: Respawned
Dust & Neon
Rival Pirates
Skies of Chaos
Sports Sports
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt
Wonderputt Forever
Leaving on December 11:
GTA: San Andreas
Kentucky Route Zero
Twelve Minutes
Back in June, we reported that total lifetime Netflix Games downloads stood at over 340m, with GTA: San Andreas nearing the 50m mark.
Today, total lifetime Netflix Games downloads stand at an estimated 396m, according to Appmagic estimates.
GTA: San Andreas is by far the top download with 57.4m installs through Netflix to date. Squid Game: Unleashed, a game released for free to all players even those without a live Netflix subscription, is second with 28.4m installs. Storyteller (22.5m), Football Manager Mobile (14.8m) and Bloons TD 6 (14.77m) complete the top five.
Netflix games president Alain Tascan teased the ongoing reboot at GDC, explaining that the streaming giant would now be concentrating on four main game types: party, kids, narrative and mainstream titles.
Tascan later told us more about Netflix’s gameplan, including how it wants to build a Fortnite-like social gaming experience. He also insisted Netflix is in gaming for the long term, and that its 2025 roster will help it finally “find its voice” in gaming.
