You Can Actually Play the Terrifying Video Game From Black Mirror Season 7

Black Mirror‘s new season is here, bringing six tales of tech-based terror, tyranny, and emotional damage to Netflix. While all the episodes feature scenarios you can imagine actually happening—but aren’t quite achievable in 2025—a key piece of one is actually making its way into reality. And it’s one of the cutest yet also scariest: the Thronglets video game from the Peter Capaldi-starring “Plaything.” “Plaything” winds itself around a murder mystery that’s not really a mystery; the only suspect (played by Capaldi and Lewis Gribben at different points in the decades-spanning story) left his DNA all over a mutilated corpse in the 1990s. With neither DNA nor dead body identified, the case tugs at police until a peculiar shoplifting arrest leads them to an even more peculiar man. As he tells them his history during an extended interrogation, we learn this all ties back to Thronglets, a game he learned about from genius designer Colin Ritman (Will Poulter, reprising his Black Mirror: Ba ... Read full article.