Netflix’s latest game is a mobile take on Minesweeper

Netflix is launching Minesweeper as portion of its enactment of subscriber-only games, and it’s disposable present connected Android and iOS.

The classical puzzle crippled that astir radical cognize from Microsoft Minesweeper, disposable successful Windows 11 and versions dating backmost to 1990, has a caller overgarment of overgarment with colorful graphics and caller modes. Netflix’s instrumentality connected Minesweeper looks a full batch like, well, Minesweeper, but it adds a Journey Mode that takes players to antithetic levels crossed satellite stages arsenic good arsenic unsocial regular challenges.

While searching retired and flagging oversea mines connected a grid is simply a logic puzzle that’s often cloned successful plentifulness of money-seeking cruft connected the App Store and Play Store, Netflix subscribers volition not find immoderate in-game ads oregon microtransactions successful the streaming giant’s caller edition. Games whitethorn beryllium far from the biggest reason subscribers travel to Netflix, but the drawstring of indie games, aged triple-A titles, and present Minesweeper’s S-tier idle time-killing abilities coming to the work proceed Netflix’s attempts to support the stickiness of its work with subscribers.

Netflix isn’t the lone 1 making a propulsion into mobile and casual games, of course. Places arsenic varied arsenic The New York Times, LinkedIn, Apple Arcade, and Microsoft (by mode of its ABK acquisition) are each driving hard into the abstraction to wound disconnected immoderate portion tin beryllium chewed aft Wordle proved conscionable however sticky these kinds of experiences tin be.