Netflix’s model of Overcooked permits you to play as Huntr/x

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 Celebration and Tetris Time Warp, however Overcooked feels a bit distinctive as a result of it contains 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 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 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, taking part in Overcooked additionally requires you to make use of a linked smartphone as a controller.

Providing a rising library of streaming video games is a part of Netflix’s new technique underneath Alan Tascan, a former govt from Epic Video games. Tascan took over as Netflix’s President of Games in 2024, and appeared to begin 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 also be persevering with to adapt video video games into content material for its platform. For instance, A24 is reportedly developing a game show based mostly on Overcooked for the streaming service.