Next Games

Next Games is a Helsinki-based first-party game developer and publisher operating publicly as Next Games, a Netflix Game Studio. Wholly owned by Netflix, the studio creates approachable social and narrative games for mobile, web and television, including cloud-streamed games played on TV with smartphones used as controllers.

Founded in 2013 by game-industry veterans from Rovio, Supercell and Disney, the company initially focused on turning established entertainment franchises into accessible interactive experiences. Its early releases included Compass Point: West and the AMC-licensed tactical mobile RPG The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land. The studio later expanded its work in location-based and augmented-reality games with The Walking Dead: Our World and the development of Blade Runner: Rogue.

Games for Netflix

After partnering with Netflix on Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales, Next Games joined Netflix in 2022. Its work now spans subscription-based games across Netflix’s ecosystem, combining mobile development with cloud-streaming and living-room social play.

Recent projects include:

• Netflix Minigolf, a cross-device TV party game using Netflix franchise environments and smartphone controller integration
• Netflix Puzzled, a daily logic and word-puzzle suite for mobile and web
• TV games Boggle Party, Pictionary: Game Night and Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends
• Underwatermelon and Netflix Star: Daily Trivia

Capabilities

The studio provides full-cycle game development, prototyping, engineering, graphics programming, technical art, analytics and live-service operations. Its specialist work includes Unity URP and cloud-streaming pipelines, player telemetry and behaviour modelling, casual and party-game mechanics, and adapting global entertainment IP into interactive games.

Next Games remains active as Netflix’s dedicated internal first-party game development studio, with its game-development operations based in Helsinki.