Netflix introduced that it is acquired developer Spry Fox for an undisclosed charge. This acquisition marks the streaming service’s sixth inner recreation developer, and comes almost a full 12 months after Netflix started to launch video games on its platform. 

“Our video games journey has solely simply begun, however I’m happy with the foundational work we’ve been doing to construct out our in-house inventive capability in order that we will ship the very best video games expertise…to our members as a part of their membership,” added Netflix Games VP Amir Rahimi. 

Spry Fox was based in 2010, and is the studio chargeable for that 12 months’s freemium title Triple Town, and the 2014 roguelike Road Not Taken. The studio rose to prominence with its cell phrase video games, Alphabear and Alphabear 2. 

Last 12 months, it launched Cozy Grove, simply certainly one of many cozy video games that has captured audiences because the style first bloomed through the pandemic. 

“We are all enthusiastic about becoming a member of Netflix as an in-house recreation studio and constructing wonderful video games collectively,” added Spry Fox co-founder Daniel Cook. 

As far as video games are involved, Netflix has cut up its time in 2022 by buying studios (resembling Next Games and Boss Fight Entertainment) or forming wholly new studios (in California or Helsinki). 

In 2021, Epic Games introduced it might be publishing Spry Fox’s upcoming “nonviolent” multiplayer recreation. It’s unknown how Netflix’s merger impacts the developer’s pre-existing cope with Epic.