For a couple of years, Netflix has offered all subscribers to its platform a series of games through the App Store and Play Store, games that we can download completely free of charge and that do not include any type of purchase inside. To be able to enjoy these games, all we have to do is enter our Netflix account data.
Netflix, like all streaming video platforms, never make the viewing figures for their content public. In the case of Netflix’s bet on video games, we also don’t know how successful this bet is having, although everything seems to indicate that everything is going according to their plans.
As the company has announced through its blog, Netflix’s commitment wants to go a little further and be available on all types of devices, from mobile phones to smart televisions to play from the mobile as a control unit, going through computers where it can be played. use a keyboard and mouse.
The operation of this new Netflix platform is the same as we can find it in Microsoft’s Game Pass or GeForce Now, where the servers are the ones that do all the work, so the computer where we want to play will not have to be the latest generation. Netflix is ​​testing this form of video game streaming on a small group of users in Great Britain and Canada through two titles.
The titles that are part of this test are OxenFree from Studio Night School, a studio Netflix acquired a few months ago, and Molehew’s Mining Adventure, a gem mining game. When this platform leaves the beta phase, it will be available through a specific application independent from Netflix that can be installed on the Amazon Fire Stick, Google TV Chromecast, Nvidia Shield, on LG TVs and devices and Roku TVs and smart TVs from Samsung.
At the moment, as we have commented, it is a beta phase so that Netflix can fine-tune this new video game platform in the cloud. If we take into account that Netflix knows a lot about servers, it is more than likely that the beta will be extended to more countries in the coming months or, with a bit of luck, it will be officially launched worldwide.
It should be remembered that this new commitment from Netflix to the world of video games is offered together with the subscription to this platform, so users do not have to make any additional payment. Although it is true that the currently available titles are not triple A. they are more than enough to pass the idle time or even several hours.
