Netflix’s library of streamable occasion video games is expanding today with a customized model of Overcooked! All You Can Eat. Netflix launched its cloud gaming program with video games like Lego Get together and Tetris Time Warp, however Overcooked feels a bit distinctive as a result of it encompasses a roster of Netflix-affiliated characters from KPop Demon Hunters and Stranger Things.
For the uninitiated, Overcooked performs like a extra manic model of Diner Sprint, the place groups try to organize meals collectively in more and more elaborate kitchens stuffed with obstacles. The unique model of Overcooked! All You Can Eat was launched in 2020, and consists of DLC and phases from earlier variations of the sport. Netflix’s model bundles in the identical content material, and “10 Netflix superstar cooks” together with “Dustin, Eleven, Lucas, and the Demogorgon from Stranger Issues,” and “half-dozen faces from KPop Demon Hunters,” like “Mira, Rumi, Zoey, Jinu, Derpy and Sussie.” Like Netflix’s different streaming video games, enjoying Overcooked additionally requires you to make use of a related smartphone as a controller.
Providing a rising library of streaming video games is a part of Netflix’s new technique beneath Alan Tascan, a former government from Epic Video games. Tascan took over as Netflix’s President of Games in 2024, and appeared to start out revamping the corporate’s plans not lengthy after, cancelling the release of several mobile games and reportedly shutting down its AAA game studio. Netflix can be persevering with to adapt video video games into content material for its platform. For instance, A24 is reportedly developing a game show primarily based on Overcooked for the streaming service.
