Looking for contributors to the Netflix Games Recovery project (documentation, not code)
Hi everyone!
I've been running the Netflix Games Recovery project for a while now and finally wanted to post about it here.
The idea is to catalogue every game that was ever on Netflix Games and figure out, for each one, whether it can still be played now that it's been delisted. There were 61 games total (to my knowledge) and I've gone through all of them over the last couple weeks or so. Here is the current state:
- 11 recovered!! These were Netflix exclusives, and they're fully playable again and archived for good. That's a little over 1 in 6 of the entire catalogue, which honestly makes me really happy.
- 41 still available elsewhere. Games like GTA, Hades, and Civ VI that were never exclusive to Netflix and are still sold on other storefronts. I don't touch these at all, the site just links to where they're officially available. That's two thirds of the catalogue that was never even at risk to begin with... which is great!
- 9 that are lost for now. Netflix exclusives that would need a full server reimplementation, or a reverse-engineering effort that could take months to years each, before anyone can play them again. It's bittersweet, because in theory most of them could still be revived with enough effort. Just not easily.
Those 9 are the reason I really wish I'd started this sooner, but that's the whole point of doing it now. I can't undo those, but I can make sure it doesn't happen the same way again! Any game that gets scheduled for delisting from here on will have a preservation effort going before it goes offline instead of after.
The first of those is Sonic Prime Dash, which Netflix is delisting on 7/12/2026. It's already recovered on my end, and the download unlocks the moment it goes offline. So as long as a game isn't pulled from Netflix with no warning at all, you can count on it ending up here.
I do want to be EXTREMELY clear that this isn't a piracy project. If a game is available somewhere else I leave it completely alone and just link the official store, and again, that's all 41 of the non-exclusives. The iOS and APK mirrors I list are the original Netflix-DRM builds, which don't actually run, so they're only there for documentation.
What I could really use help with is documentation, not code! Every game is already sorted into recovered or not, so there isn't much left in the middle to work on. The things that would help most:
- what engine each game was built on
- when it originally released on Netflix
- any revival or fan communities that already exist
- iOS IPA mirrors (everything has an APK mirror except Hades, which never came to Android)
- Android package names
- any delisted game I missed
- any corrections on things I labeled myself
There's a contribution form if you want to help out, and I go through submissions daily. Any feedback is welcome too :)