Picture: Yacht Club Games / Choice Provisions / Riot Forge
The exodus of video games continues at Netflix Games, with the cellular sport Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon set to depart the lineup tomorrow, December 18th, alongside Hextech Mayhem, the sport set in the identical world as League of Legends.
Beginning with Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon, the sport is described as a roguelike puzzle sport that places you in charge of a blue knight tasked with battling foes, accumulating relics, and matching blocks to save lots of mates and escape on this genre-bending spinoff. It first landed on Netflix on June sixth, 2023.
Yacht Club Games introduced the removing of the sport on social media this afternoon:
“Hey Pocketeers, we needed to let you recognize that the cellular model of Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon will probably be departing from Netflix on December 18th. While we’re unhappy to say goodbye, we deeply respect everybody who has performed & loved the sport throughout its time on the platform.
Please be aware that this announcement doesn’t have an effect on any of the opposite platforms. You nonetheless can delve into the Pocket Dungeon on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Steam. Thank you in your on-going help!”
Shortly after this assertion, a removing discover appeared within the Netflix person interface stating that at the moment, December seventeenth, is your final day to play. Once the sport goes offline, you have to manually take away it out of your telephone, as Google Play and Apple don’t do that for you.
Yacht Club Games was requested if there are plans for the sport after its Netflix removing, to which they replied, “We’re currently figuring out what the next steps are! We’ll be sure to announce what our plans are once things are ironed out.”
Pictures: Netflix removing notices for Shovel Knight and Hextech Mayhem
The second sport additionally due an imminent removing is Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story, which comes from Riot Games. It first touched down on Netflix in January 2022 and is a fast-paced rhythm runner that includes League of Legends stars Ziggs and Heimerdinger. That sport, too, is ready to depart on December 18th, however we’ve but to search out any official assertion from the event workforce about its removing.
As we’ve been masking (depressingly quite a bit these days), Netflix goes by its first wave of serious removals because it first launched cellular video games on the finish of 2021. It started with the information that two Grand Theft Auto video games have been leaving, plus Dominoes Cafe. Then we realized that Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales was being shut down completely and eliminated, and this morning, we heard that The Dragon Prince: Xadia would even be closing down. In a lot of the video games which have left, we bought some early warning, though, within the case of Shovel Knight and Xadia, their closures have come as a bit extra of a shock.
Thankfully, Netflix’s lineup of video games stays at over 100 titles, with Squid Game: Unleashed being the largest of the newest arrivals.
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