Netflix quits two game studios to chase couch co op glory
Netflix is shutting down Night School Studio (the beloved Oxenfree maker it bought in 2021) and Helsinki-based Moonloot Games, part of a broader retreat from its once-buzzy mobile gaming push. The company says it's narrowing focus to kids, party, narrative, and "mainstream" games, specifically the TV-based party titles it started prioritizing late last year, and is cutting more roles across its games division. It's a quiet admission that the indie-mobile-games experiment inside your streaming subscription didn't stick.
Netflix spent years building a prestige indie game library just to bury it for Jackbox-style TV filler.