Best Netflix games available right now – From Into the Breach to Red Dead Redemption

If you don’t know anything about the Football Manager franchise, you must be either living under a rock or you just don’t like football. But if you do like football and simulation games, then this is a no-brainer.

Become a club manager and take everything under your control, from tactics and transfers to team talks, scouting, and pretty much anything else that you can imagine.

You can start your career at any club in the world, as it supports every league and has real players. As I said, this game is a must if you are looking for a football simulation experience.

You already know about Bloons TD 6 from our previous articles, such as Bloons TD 6 tier list and best towers to carry your rounds. In this Netflix game, you benefit from hundreds of configurations and upgrades, so feel free to read all the guides we’ve created to help you on that journey.

Aside from that, what you need to know about this game is that it’s wild. You have a tower defence type of game where things get increasingly more difficult. Towards the last levels, some players even reported crashes because of how crazy the battles turned out.

It’s one of the most fun and entertaining tower defence games out there, and easily one of the best games Netflix has to offer.

Oxenfree is a story-driven adventure game with elements of mystery and suspense, sprinkled with paranormal elements.

The story follows a group of teenagers as they face the repercussions of opening a ghostly portal on an abandoned island, while out partying one night. It’s also got a smart chat system that lets players have a major impact on the tale’s action and conclusion.

New graphics, a remixed soundtrack, a new epilogue, mysteries, and branching story paths can all be found in Oxenfree: Netflix Edition, which was published on September 24th, 2022. If you are interested in this title, here’s a link to our full review of Oxenfree, where we get into specifics.

Before Your Eyes is a game with a major focus on storytelling and beauty. The actual story is a little dark at its core, but the way it is presented is far from it.

It gives players the opportunity to immerse themselves in an individual’s life, as they journey across the River Styx and into the afterlife. That is as dark as it appears, but it has its beauty.

Before Your Eyes has innovative gameplay with real-time tracking of the player’s eye movements and blinking to make choices that impact the outcome of the story. It’s not something we typically see in your run-of-the-mill mobile game.

Krispee Street is an adorably designed hidden object game that is exclusively accessible to Netflix members. This title draws inspiration from a well-known webcomic, and its graphics don’t shy away from showing that. It’s really well done.

As a player, you’ll have to figure out puzzles and discover well-hidden objects, and while it might sound like a piece of cake at first, it really isn’t. Oh, and it also has a certain narrative that it manages to tell between the puzzles and hidden object games. It’s really good, and a nice break from the classical, realistic hidden object game we’re used to.

As a kid, you’ve probably dreamed of defending the Earth from various calamities or invasions and being a hero in the end. Well, Into the Breach will make your childhood dream finally come true. You’re the last line of defence against the overgrown bug-like aliens that can crush a building without much effort. However, humanity has advanced, and we have huge mechs and other weapons of destruction because we humans are great at finding the best way to kill each other.

Fighting is done on an 8×8 grid that’s similar to chess, with turn-based combat. As terrain can shift and create huge holes in the ground, it can be tricky to avoid them while facing aliens. Therefore, careful planning is essential to win every round, no matter what the end goal is. That’s the only way to turn terrain shifts to your advantage, as gravity works on your adversaries as well.

Storyteller is a hit game unlike any other. It starts off pretty slow, with just a couple of prompts, but soon enough you will find yourself in a story unlike any other. The game is available on Steam as well, which is where it was first popularised.

The best part about Storyteller is not the fact that it’s sort of a build-your-own-story kind of game, but rather its unique take on it. You will be in charge of making a plot for each prompt you’re given, and sometimes these plots have a twist. Literally. It’s one of the best Netflix games ever released, and you shouldn’t skip it.

Red Dead Redemption likely needs no introduction, though we should take a moment to appreciate how far mobile has come before we get to that. The fact that we can now carry an incredibly complex and detailed open-world shooter like this in our pockets shows the leaps in technology since the game first released way back in 2010.

If you’re somehow unfamiliar, it takes place in the Wild West and follows John Marston as he hunts down the surviving members of his old gang. Why? The federal government has taken his family and won’t give them back until the job is done. Yeah, it’s pretty heavy stuff and is a wonderfully told story. In some ways, I’d argue, it’s better than its successor, Red Dead 2. I appreciate that’s a contentious statement, of course.

But it’s not all gloomy stuff. Thanks to the open-world nature of it all, there’s plenty of twisted fun to be had with tying people to train tracks and waiting for the next locomotive to roll through. Or if you don’t want to act like a Looney Tunes villain, you can swagger into a saloon, find a comfortable corner, and play poker for hours instead. It’s good fun either way.

Death might not be the happiest topic in the world, but that doesn’t mean it can’t provide some level of catharsis when handled well. Spiritfarer takes this complex life event and somehow manages to turn it into a cosy management RPG.

You play as a ferrymaster tasked with guiding the recently passed to the afterlife. It’s not a simple case of starting the engines and sailing across to the other side, though. The spirits you encounter are somewhat restless, and you’ll need to care for them as they make their final voyage. That means getting to know them and their needs, which makes for an incredibly emotional final goodbye. Still, it’s that bittersweet variety of sadness where you’ll be pleased you took the plunge. 

Aside from chatting to Spiritfarer’s lovable cast, you’ll also busy yourself with fishing, crafting, mining, farming, and all manner of other things. Just because your destination is a fairly morbid one, it doesn’t mean that everyday tasks can fall by the wayside, you see. They’re still important and in many ways key to the relaxing vibe Spiritfarer offers. 

I’ve had fairly mixed opinions about Black Mirror ever since it jumped to Netflix. Though there have been plenty of good episodes since that move (Hi, San Junipero), I mostly find the quality has dipped (What was that awful werewolf episode all about?). However, Season 6’s Plaything does stand out as one of the better offerings from the later series.

Now, that could simply be because my opinion is swayed by the video game stuff or the fantastic performance from Peter Capaldi (The best Doctor Who since the show’s revival. Sorry, David). But either way, the fictional video game featured in it isn’t actually fictional. Sort of. That’s right, you can actually play Thronglets! It’s just these little critters don’t plan to kill us all… I think.

Inspired by Black Mirror mastermind Charlie Brooker’s obsession with keeping a Tamagotchi alive in his youth, Thronglets is a virtual pet sim that tasks you with helping the Throng thrive. They’ll hatch from eggs before relying on you for food and entertainment. Do all those things, and you’ll have an adorable little army (?). Just don’t set them all on fire, alright? They don’t take too kindly to that.