More than a year after Netflix added the award-winning game Hades to its gaming service, the streaming giant will remove the game from its service on July 1. No, I'm not crying, I just have something in my eye.
Supergiant Games released Hades in 2018 to near-universal acclaim before releasing the game on Netflix. It won numerous awards, including Game of the Year and Action Game of the Year at the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. It also made history as the first (and so far only) game to win a Hugo Award, an accolade usually reserved for science fiction and fantasy literary works, but which created a special category for video games in 2021. Despite the awards, accolades and its short tenure on the service, Netflix is removing the title from its gaming catalog.
The gameplay is smooth and fun, the story of a broken family rebuilt one run at a time was great, and the different characters you meet on your quest have such interesting backstories that it was easy to root for them, even when you had to fight and beat them. Hades is one of my favorite games, and one of the only games I've bought and played on multiple platforms, and its removal hurts.
I like being able to play this game on my iPhone whenever and wherever I want. If I want that same level of freedom after Netflix removes Hades, I'll have to start carrying my Switch with me everywhere I go, and I don't have big enough pockets to make that work.
Hades isn't the only game Netflix is removing from its platform. It's removing about 20 other games, including the Monument Valley trilogy, which released the third installment in the series on Netflix Games in December. Here's a list of the games Netflix is removing from its service soon. Note the last day to play these games is July 14 unless noted otherwise.
Battleship
Braid, Anniversary Edition
Carmen Sandiego
CoComelon: Play with JJ
Death's Door
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