Netflix is trimming its games portfolio, with over 20 games leaving the service this summer.
What’s on Netflix has the full 22-game list of titles marked as leaving the service next month. It includes several high profile indie games including Hades, Braid, two Golden Idol games plus all three Monument Valley games, the most recent of which was released in November 2024.
There’s also more casual fare leaving the service too. Battleships, Diner Out: Merge Cafe and Wooga’s hidden object game Ghost Detective are also leaving. There are big brand games in the mix too; Cocomelon: Play With JJ, LEGO Legacy, Rainbow Six: Smol and SpongeBob: Bubble Pop are all departing with the other axed titles in July.
Like Monument Valley 3, there are other titles set for the chop that only lasted a few months on Netflix. Carmen Sandiego was released in January but will be departing next month, and daily word game TED Tumblewords was released in November 2024. We have asked Netflix for comment on this story but have yet to receive a reply.
Several other titles have quietly left the service in recent months, the most high profile titles being GTA: Vice City and GTA III. Slayaway Camp, Vikings: Valhalla, Samurai Showdown, Shovel Knight Pocket Edition, Mighty Quest Rogue Palace and Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales have also been removed, as has original indie platformer Poinpy.
As we reported just last week, it’s perhaps no surprise that some of those indie titles are being removed. Monument Valley 3 has so far attracted around 2.4m downloads since launch in November 2024, a lower number than one might have anticipated, while Braid only racked up around 200k downloads in its year on the service. Hades has been downloaded 1.8m times since its Netflix launch in February 2024, says Appmagic.
Total lifetime Netflix game downloads are estimated to be over 340m, says the data firm, with GTA: San Andreas by far the most popular title – it is closing in on 50m downloads through Netflix. There’s full analysis of lifetime downloads and the last 30 days of installs in our report from last week here.
