Netflix’s library of streamable social gathering video games is increasing right this moment with a customized model of Overcooked! All You Can Eat. Netflix launched its cloud gaming program with video games like Lego Occasion and Tetris Time Warp, however Overcooked feels a bit distinctive as a result of it includes a roster of Netflix-affiliated characters from KPop Demon Hunters and Stranger Issues.
For the uninitiated, Overcooked performs like a extra manic model of Diner Sprint, the place groups try to arrange meals collectively in more and more elaborate kitchens crammed with obstacles. The unique model of Overcooked! All You Can Eat was launched in 2020, and consists of DLC and levels from earlier variations of the sport. Netflix’s model bundles in the identical content material, and “10 Netflix movie star 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 below Alan Tascan, a former government from Epic Video games. Tascan took over as Netflix’s President of Video games in 2024, and appeared to begin revamping the corporate’s plans not lengthy after, cancelling the discharge of a number of cellular video games and reportedly shutting down its AAA sport studio. Netflix can also be persevering with to adapt video video games into content material for its platform. For instance, A24 is reportedly growing a sport present primarily based on Overcooked for the streaming service.
